Mr. Robot

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Mr. Robot (vt Gospodin Robot and variations in various languages). Sam Esmail, creator. TV show. USA: Anonymous Content, Universal Cable Productions (production) / USA Network (US showing), 2015-2018 (and following?). See IMDb for complexities of distribution outside of USA.[1]

Logline from IMDb for whole series: "Follows Elliot, a young programmer working as a cyber-security engineer by day, and a vigilante hacker by night." The generic classification of "Cyber Thriller" is close, but one should add psychological drama note some roots in cyberpunk.

We have followed first season, with the show set in a present-day New York City significant for "E Corp," called "Evil Corporation," opposed by the fSociety hackers, whose HQ is at Eldorado Arcade at Coney Island. That setting has in the background — and available for foregrounding — the Wonder Wheel: an impressive Ferris wheel, an icon of Modern technology. The Arcade also has Thunderball and various other mostly mechanical games, surrounding the cybernetic equipment: modest in appearance but quite powerful; there are also video games but old ones, appropriate for an arcade. Cf. and contrast the TRON movies, and, for premise and the grittiness of the mise-en-scene, FIGHT CLUB.

The show has won critical acclaim and has significant presence on the web; see e.g., the Wikipedia article.[2]

RDE, Initial Compiler 13Feb18