Mr. Robot (2015)
Mr. Robot is a 2015 crime series created by Sam Esmail. It stars Rami Malek, Christian Slater and Carly Chaikin.
Elliot Alderson fixes networks by day and breaks into people's lives by night, a cybersecurity engineer whose social anxiety and depression leave hacking as his only real language. When a figure calling himself Mr. Robot pulls him toward fsociety, a ragtag cell that wants to erase the world's debt by crippling the conglomerate E Corp, Elliot's grip on what is real starts to slip. Sam Esmail films Manhattan as a lonely maze of off-center framing and glitchy narration, letting you sit inside a mind that trusts no one, least of all itself.
Quick answers
What is Mr. Robot about?
Elliot Alderson fixes networks by day and breaks into people's lives by night, a cybersecurity engineer whose social anxiety and depression leave hacking as his only real language. When a figure calling himself Mr. Robot pulls him toward fsociety, a ragtag cell that wants to erase the world's debt by crippling the conglomerate E Corp, Elliot's grip on what is real starts to slip. Sam Esmail films Manhattan as a lonely maze of off-center framing and glitchy narration, letting you sit inside a mind that trusts no one, least of all itself.
When was Mr. Robot released?
Mr. Robot was released on 24 June 2015.
How many episodes does Mr. Robot have?
Mr. Robot has 45 episodes across 4 seasons.
Who made Mr. Robot?
Mr. Robot was created by Sam Esmail.
Where can I watch Mr. Robot?
Mr. Robot is available on Google Play, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Mr. Robot
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson
- Christian Slater as Mr. Robot
- Carly Chaikin as Darlene Alderson
- Martin Wallström as Tyrell Wellick
- Portia Doubleday as Angela Moss
- Michael Cristofer as Phillip Price
- Grace Gummer as Dominique DiPierro
- BD Wong as Whiterose
- Stephanie Corneliussen as Joanna Wellick
- Vaishnavi Sharma as Elliot's Mother
- Sunita Mani as Trenton
- Gloria Reuben as Krista Gordon
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A few thoughts on Mr. Robot
Disco Elysium drops you into another damaged, unreliable mind trying to solve a case it can barely trust. Max Payne shares the noir gloom and running inner monologue. Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory tells a paranoid psychological story in album form, and Detroit: Become Human echoes its questions about control and corporate power.
Unreliable narrators and fractured minds
Mr. Robot sits you inside Elliot's mind and never lets you fully trust it. These stories play the same game with perception, following fractured narrators and slippery realities where you question every image and memory alongside the character.
Surveillance-state techno-thrillers
Mr. Robot turns hacking into a war against a data-hoarding conglomerate. These techno-thrillers share that paranoia, following surveillance, cyberattacks, and the people who watch and are watched as control of information becomes the real weapon.
Antiheroes narrating their own crimes
Elliot narrates Mr. Robot in a lonely, glitchy voice that pulls you into his crimes. These antihero stories keep that intimate confession, letting killers, fixers, and outsiders talk you through the choices that slowly damn them.
Lonely outsiders pulled into vast conspiracies
Mr. Robot drags a withdrawn engineer into a conspiracy far bigger than himself. These stories follow the same lonely outsiders swept into schemes they barely understand, forced to act as the ground keeps shifting under them.