Mr. Robot - Anyone else watching this?

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Mr. Robot - Anyone else watching this?

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I saw the first two episodes yesterday and I really enjoyed it. There's hacking, there's a big evil corporation to take down, there's questions of choice and freedom, of mass consumerism. The main character is interesting in that he's seriously broken. He's socially awkward, he's bug-eyed, he's on drugs. But he means well and overcomes his flaws to do good things. I like a flawed protagonist.

Plus Christian Slater is in this and he's pretty fun. Also, I like that the episode number starts with 0, since computers.

There's kind of an unreliable narrator thing going on. The big conglomerate is called E Corp, but the protagonist only hears Evil Corps. So that's what he hears everyone else saying. Plus there's a "Fuck society, we're all slaves to the man" attitude that comes off as naive teen angst. I doubt this would happen, but it'd be an interesting twist if the conspiracy were all or partially in his head.
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