TV series

Mr. Robot

2015–2019 · 4 seasons

A paranoid, disorienting plunge into a fractured mind, where every scene hums with dread and nothing can be taken at face value.

Tagline: Control is an illusion.
Overview: A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
How it feels: Dark, tense, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, isolation, corruption, power
Content: Strong violence and language. Mild gore and sexual content.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
isolation
corruption
power
addiction
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild