3 signs you’ve been watching “Mr. Robot” all wrong
The final season of USA’s, “Mr. Robot,” is almost over, and die-hard fans are all up in their feelings about it. Over the years, we’ve watched Elliot and Darlene Alderson fight their inner demons, fight chemical dependency, fight each other, fight shadowy forces of evil, fight CODE, fight the past, fight loss, fight masked Asians, fight for the future, fight conspiracy and ultimately, fight normalcy.
They’re fighters, OK? They fight things. It’s what they do.
They’ve succeeded on unfathomable levels, but failed miserably at some of life’s most basic tasks. Their wide range of ups and downs have mind-fucked an adoring audience into an easy, comfortable confusion, and, to be honest, it’s a big fat metaphor for the entire series. The way we discover our confusion is probably the most enjoyable facet of “Mr. Robot’s” shimmery, flawed intricacy. Just when you think you’ve figured things out (SPOILER: Christian Slater was a cantaloupe the entire first season) you come to realize you were wrong all along. Strangely, though, it’s not a harsh, unforgiving sense of failure. It’s nice. Like morphine.
With this show, things don’t unfold the way you expect them to, and it’s actually a comforting feeling. You misread the clues, but it’s fine. You were wrong to think Whiterose was good and VERY wrong to assume Angela was…
