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August 30, 2017

Mr. Robot: New Trailer And Character Posters

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First things first: anyone who hasn’t seen at least the first season of Mr. Robot shouldn’t be reading news items about Season 3 until they have seen it. You’ll thank me for this warning later. Now onto spoilers. Entertainment Weekly posted a new trailer for Season 3 of Mr. Robot this morning, as well as some promotional art for the series, soon to be regurgitated as the DVD cover art in a year. If you recall, Season 2 ended with unstable, perpetually baggy-eyed protagonist Elliot Alderson getting shot. In typical Esmail fashion this trailer creates more questions than it answers, but it at least confirms Elliot is alive… ….or is he actually dead and every scene from this point is a nightmare in Tyrell’s head brought on by E-Corp Nanobots? Is it going to turn out Elliot was dead all along and his father is the one alive? Is everyone actually a robot? Is Roseanne going to come on in the last minute and explain the entire show was part

August 4, 2017

The First Mr. Robot Season 3 Trailer is Here

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It’s weird we went through the entirety of SDCC just two weeks ago without one single peek at the third season of Mr. Robot. But it’s here now; the first trailer with the first footage. Until today we didn’t know a single thing about what would happen next. And as of now….we still don’t. Well, you try to make sense of it: https://youtu.be/CmtaZ8sOfbk In typical Mr. Robot fashion, the trailer is little more than a big mystery. All the major players are confirmed to be back, and the events look rather dystopian — but is that what’s really going on? Nothing is ever what it seems on Mr. Robot. I have to admit, after how Season 2 turned out I’m concerned for the future of this show. Instead of moving toward solving the mysteries that had already been established, showrunner Sam Esmail piled on a bunch of new ones. And the problem with the perpetual mystery format is that it inevitably disappoints you. See: Lost, The X-Files, the original run

August 11, 2016

Mr. Robot’s “New” Theme Song Was Actually Created By TGIF Veterans

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Title sequences of ABC’s family programming during the late 80’s and early 90’s had a sameness to them. A bombastic, overly cheery theme song, characters turning to the camera and smiling; even the font displaying their names was always the same. This is because nearly every single TGIF program from that era was created by the same production company, Miller-Boyett Productions. Flash forward 20 years later, and the eerie sense of lockstep conformity those main titles gave off is now the butt of jokes. And no one smashes conformity like Mr. Robot. The show took things one step further last night and rendered the first 20 minutes of their program in the Miller-Boyett style, complete with a Full House-ish main title. What you probably didn’t know until you started reading this page is that Sam Esmail and the crew had special help: to make things fully authentic, they enlisted the help of the songwriters who created the original sitcom themes! Bennett Salvay and Jesse Frederick wrote the theme songs for