Blue pill, red pill, "put me back in, I just want to eat steak..." That line in the first Matrix was really the summary of what Elliot also said - "it's easier to pretend"
I never even bothered watching Breaking Bad and quite a few of the others he mentioned but I loved mr. Robot. But I likes extremely cerebral make you think out-of-the-box type of TV and movies.
Im at episode 3 of season 4 and I'm already depressed that I have only few episodes left and it will be over. It's just such a masterpiece. This is probably one of the best media that truly puts you in the mind of a broken person with split personality, we as the viewer are technically part of Elliot's mind. It's so well made that it makes you feel as insane as the protagonist. Even tho it's not a horror show, I felt more afraid and creeped out in this show than most horror movies.
@@harrytsang1501 this is one of the shows that didn't even feel long, I was so invested I didn't notice how the time flied while watching and keep wanting more. I'm glad it was planed to be exactly as long as it needed to with a complete story from the beginning and not dragging on for the sake of more seasons until it gets unwatchable (like TWD which destroyed itself)
This show was super important to me, the final few episodes hit me so damn hard and I literally had nobody I could share the appreciation with at the time, so great to see this vid! Really felt ahead of its time, even if by just a few years. Super powerful television. I really don't feel like anyone could have handled Elliot like Rami, he really has this kind of anonymous, almost ghostly, ethnically and emotionally ambiguous vibe that suited the role so well.
Sorry, but that's nonsense. Of course Malek's Elliot can't be anyone else's, because it's Malek who put something into Elliot's personality that was entirely his. However, if it had been someone else, we'd still find Elliot awesome. It might be for slightly different reasons, but there it is.
@@MF_JONES No, that was not the message in the entire show. Did you even watch it? Or maybe you just watched it half-ass or something? I mean, the Communist Party played a huge role in the show, especially from season 2 all the way to season 4
@@raymondsims7042 Wow I have the exact same top 3. GOT was imo clearly working to be the greatest show of all time but the last final seasons eliminated the separation it initially had. But overall I still love and put it up the with the other giants The Wire & Mr. Robot. With Honorable mentions to Lost, Fringe and Narcos.
Thank you Moon, for giving us this type of philosophical content linked to modern society and its problems. Im sure you will open many eyes or at least make people think for themselves and outside the box for a second. Stay safe brother.
I was watching Hatfield and McCoy's earlier and I thought to myself back then everyone had a gun. Why was the off-yourself rate so low when life was so damn hard?
@@kyrohowe3156 man you are living some spoilt ass life. You are basically the definition of an NPC not in the corny type of way that's overused. The one that's really impressionable and thinks THIS one cause he stated will cause society to fall.
Saw the first season when it came out, I was in awe on how this show made me felt with his acting being so real it made me uncomfortable at times but speechless with a commentary of his voice, and the features of his face, making every scene worth watching
Easily one of the best shows in tv history, it's a masterpiece, I still remember watching the pilot the week it premiered, it blew my mind. Everything was very well taken care of from the beginning to the end, the script, the acting, the direction, the cinematography, the OST, brilliant.
@@MF_JONES How dare you. While it does draw off of fight club, it has many other film inspirations and references. And it is a masterpiece in terms of quality, even if you don’t like the story.
The steel mountain hack didnt go off without a hitch. That poor security gaurd didnt get a hug from elliott :( . Lowkey best moment on the show was when elliott has a daydream seasons later where he laments on righting past wrongs they show him hugging the steel mountain guard. I died when i first saw that lol.
In reference to the Mr. Robot version of Elliott's dad, the whole story about him not wanting him to tell his mother about the cancer was almost certainly a parallel protection mechanism if you will about Elliot being molested and his father telling him not to tell his mother or anyone about the molestation, to protect the host Elliot or himself the mastermind from the reality of what happened. The father taking him to the movies and letting Elliot name the computer store was possibly a way of coercing him to stay quite. The dad lets Elliot off the hook for stealing the $20 and getting into a fight at school. Also when Elliot and his father go to the movie theater Elliots dad drops dead and he proceeds to watch the movie by himself... possibly as a result of the anger and animosity he felt towards his dad (I doubt the animosity of having to keep the cancer diagnosis a secret would reach that level). The realities mastermind elliot is presenting us throughout are not always if ever literal representations of what's going on or what happened... from what we can tell the actual reality has many parallels/similarities though.
Yes, I think Elliot’s memory was altered in many ways. He says in the first episode that his dad couldn’t even look at him after the window incident, but the movie theater contradicts that scene. That was also one of the earlier manifestations of Mr. Robot, as we see him pick up the Mr Robot jacket and act as a father figure to another personality. With regard to the window incident, the reason why Elliot might’ve believed that his father pushed him out of the window as that was the first time Mr. Robot came into existence and figuratively shoved Elliot out of the window to protect him from his father.
I rewatch Mr. Robot in it's entirety like, every year now since it finished. By far the best show I've ever watched. The music and score are phenomenal. The story is amazing. Character development is believable. The twist(s) are just... wow. Some scenes/events are such a friggin gut punch. Only show that's ever actually made me tear up watching it. Thank you for talking about this amazing piece of media.
It's one of my favourites, I'm still waiting for Vol.8 soundtrack of the last few episodes, the music and tone was simply brilliant, never expected such a grim series to end on a hopeful note.
@@Vicky-ke4es i found the opposite, the more you watch the more you realise what was real and what wasnt. You start to understand the story from the perspectives of the different characters.
@@LiterallyPluto Yeah, I meant it in a good way, it's not that I found it nonsensical, there is deliberate ambiguity regarding Elliot's subjective view of this world, where is he actually standing, how was true Elliot really if not put in a perfect world, the motive of alters, how it's embodied and affects the true Elliot, Tyrell's death, how would Elliot react after the integration of their personalities, things like that. The more you watch the more ways there are to interpret what's shown.
This show was everything to me in 2020 lockdown, that month of August is one I’ll never forget… we were all locked down and I was also working at a cybersecurity job… was a life changing show
Nobody in Pedowood is trying to warn you, they are mocking you. They get off on showing you what they are doing, and you do nothing about it. It gives them a sense of superiority.
Interesting I had the same take. Feels like the show is mocking the audience with the truth as if to say “yes we’re attacking you…go ahead & do something about it because there is nothing you can do about it.” Show feels less like a warning & more like a victory lap. Hadn’t thought about this show for a while & I wonder if that’s why
Correct. Also, laws of the universe state that if you make people aware of what you're doing and they still decide to go along with it, then your karmic debts are null and void.
@@ross-ij6qn I agree, it definetly is. I party agree with you it's normal to get bored by the end of season 2 though, because that's where the least things actually happen in the story and it's not as dynamic. It would get much more dynamic from the start of season 3.
Highly underrated... they don't want this show promoted too much coz it WILL open ur mind if you give it a chance, as the very nature of the show allows ur mind to dwell in this realm of possibility. This is predictive programming of sorts where they're telling you how it IS, not necessarily what they're planning or arranging for the world. It's very similar to that scene in the movie "2012" where the protagonist is in a phone call telling his ex-wife that disaster is imminent, she tells him he's crazy and mentions conspiracy theories saying that the Mayor just declared everything safe and he yells that the Mayor is just an actor reading a script. Right there they are telling you truth irl, but they quickly distract u with heart-pounding action - you know deep down inside you have just been told a profound truth, yet ur consciousness is not given time to properly process it so it just creates subconscious anxiety inside u instead, which they will later utilize irl to their advantage. In their minds, they have told you the truth but your lack of response to that revelation is taken by them as your permission for them to continue on with their nefarious behaviour irl, in YOUR real life world...
It's kind of like saying " and what you gonna do about it" like bullying. Not doing anything causes that "subconscious anxiety" or kind of causing like a pattern of being pushed around and not doing anything so the pushing around can get worse and worse
@@angelroman3487 Pre-cisely... couldn't have put that better! And then the blind wonder why the quiet bullied kids eventually crack, pick these little jackals up and peg them into the bedrock!!! 😅 When I was a kid I was told by both my parents and the teachers that I had to fight back against the bullies otherwise it would never stop, but I deeply resented the thought of having to lower myself in order to BECOME one of those violent snivelling pieces of crap that entertained their lowest impulses. So when I finally pushed back and got into a fight, the entire system punished me for doing so coz "ladies aren't supposed to scrap like boys" (mind you it was the boys doing the picking on a girl). My father said I embarrassed him and the school's policy was that all those involved in fights be disciplined anyway. Make up ur mind morons!!! What do you ACTUALLY WANT??!?🤬🙄 And this is how it is for both kids and adults, everyone who bothers to listen to the "system" - mixed messages and deliberate confusion! So now I say stop listening to them and think for yourself, coz they certainly don't know what they actually want and they can't possibly imagine the creativity available for problem resolution that will come to you, when you give yourself permission to ignore them and be strong enough to walk ur own path.
Mr. Robot is such an incredible show. Almost every time I mention it to someone, they say they haven't heard of it or haven't watched it. It's truly sad. It was more of an experience than just a simple television series. I still think about it and its many messages often. And to top it off, it ended perfectly without dragging on. Truly a perfect show.
@@miguelsilva9085 That’s all you can say? Seriously? Woke, non-woke, none of this matters. That’s the point Mr. Robot is trying to drive home, political labels are meant to divide the population and create enemies for us to distract ourselves with. Distractions from the real threats to modern society, which is that society itself is the threat.
Your right it’s an experience I get that weird tingling feeling watched it 5 times in a row and every time I pickup new things. It’s so real (in our society now) it’s the feeling of being apart of singing yet struggling with a internal issues, it’s the thing of friendship and pain, it’s that weird feeling you don’t know what’s wrong with a character or what’s going on until it happens
It's crazy how much more true this show feels like in today's society than when it originally came out. In the beginning I thought that maybe the show didn't get enough traction because of seeming a bit angsty on the surface. But if you watch this now it seems to fit perfectly.
Finished watching all 4 seasons for a third time just last week, and walked around in a daze afterwards. It's still so damn relevant. Visual and auditory masterpiece.
I gotta say this is one of Moon's best. The storytelling, editing, and philosophy of it is on point and I genuinely feel like I need to go watch Mr Robot myself now.
Mr Robot is one of the few shows I wish I could erase from my memory and watch it again for the first time, its so good and i found it at probably one of the most important times of my adult life.. i wish everyone would watch this show!!
This is the greatest show period. I watched the first season and upon ending it, it pivoted my whole life, i got so much inspired from this show that as of right now I am a computer engineer and I am pursuing ethical hacking to actually help organisation and people be safe from hacking.
@asap - Glenn Howerton is that you? He said the exact same thing about Rami…but then Charlie Day started asking where Glenn’s Oscar and SAG award was The always sunny podcast is fantastic
First time I watched the show, I went in Existential crisis and started questioning everything. OH GOD, I miss the 90s, when I was a dumb child, knew nothing except being happy with small things. 😐
@@anhbayar11 omg that’s so deep and insane. I can’t believe this. Your mental illness must be because of your stellar levels of intelligence dude! Fight the system!✊
Didn't not expect anyone to be talking about this Mr. Robot in 2023. It's my favorite show. Beautifully directed, amazing music score, great character growth, etc. I've probably seen it 4 times and definitely recommend it. However it may not be for everyone because of the pacing and dark subject matter.
Your content is rewatchable every time. This my 3rd time watching this and I’m as interested as I was the first time. Great minds make great storytelling. Thanks Moon🙏🏽
In the age of good shows completely shitting the bed at the wrap-up, the way this series ended gave me the same kind of chills I got on my first playthrough of NieR: Automata when I realized why 2B clenched her fist in the cutscene right after the intro mission, and what it would mean if you went back and played it again.
Never has a show given me the sense of danger like Mr. Robot did. From the 1st lines spoken by Elliot in the 1st episode,it let's you know that this is a huge conspiracy that's global. Real life reflects that and it just pulls you in so well.
The only thing between us and them is fear. Push past the fear, and they'll fear you. Only when they fear us, will they respect us. THEY should fear US. That's how it SHOULD be.
MR ROBOT deserves to be right up there next to Breaking Bad. Everything about this show is great, writing, directing, acting, cinematography, characters, etc. I've seen the entire show twice and the second time around it was just as good if not better than the first time around. I think the problem with general audience came during the last two episodes of Season 2 and the first three episodes of Season 3. Although the second half of episode 3 in season 3 picks up the plot again. I think this is due to the fact that Sam Esmail's original idea for MR ROBOT started as a movie and during his writing process it became a longer format story. So those 5 episodes between the end of season 2 and beginning of season 3 are probably where most people left. It's a real shame because after that season 3 gets really good and season 4 is as good if not better than season 1.
Sounds about right, I watched Mr. Robot. But at some point it just lost me. Even though I thought the series had potential... Maybe I'll try rewatching it when I get the time..
my favorite show personally..last season is probably THE best..some excellent monologues and cinematography..one of the rare shows to me that gets better with every season
This reminds me of why arts are so important. Any form of art can act as a mirror to ourselves and our societies, so that we can reflect upon the good and the bad. Art always begins the transformation in the society.
I agree I think it needs to be pushed through the means of a social media platform or something allowing people to compete and then eventually realize it just feels great to do!
That was a perfect presentation. The perfect analogy to all things current with our emergent culture and society as a whole. A sincere and genuine thanks to you.
Great video, I just wanna point out one mistake - Elliot doesn't work at E Corp at the beginning, he works at AllSafe and E Corp is just a client of AllSafe
You made me watch the entire show before watching this video. Not disappointed that I did, I usually hate shows or anything longer than a 2 hour movie but I couldn't stop watching it day after day. Ending is amazing too.
Good summary video & excellent points - which makes the twist at the end more unforgivable: the "it was all in his head" ending - it basically betrayed the whole point of watching an excellent commentary on the modern malaise we suffer under. It was a brilliant show, right up to that big reveal...
Mr robot is exactly what future generations of kids are going to end up as. It’s so accurate to what’s happening to young people these days : Lonely, tragic, socially backward, can’t connect with real people, emotional wrecks, no passion, sad, frustrated, unhealthy and hopeless. The future is bleak unless we all change.
Elliot is a bad person. His problems may not be something he can stop himself from experiencing but his actions represent who he is. He's responsible for so much destruction, suffering and even death. We know that he's able to take actions just as large and just as harmful as the ones made by top 1% of the top 1%. Sure, it isn't his intention to maximize the damage he does to people, but by working alongside a certain criminal organization, the dark army, he enables the group of terrorists, and even partakes in their schemes, playing a crucial role in their atrocious behavior. Ultimately, he's responsible for the economic destruction of America and all of the meaningless death and suffering that followed.
Literally completed the series *today* and this video gets uploaded right then and there. Can't be a coincidence lol. This series is a masterpiece, no doubt about it. Amazing analysis by Moon as always!
It's an absolutely brilliant show. Rewatching it you can pick up hints that they drop of how things really are. The really cool part is that the "hacking" is all real and actually uses commands correctly with little dramatisation
You just earned a sub, really impressive work with this. Makes 100% sense, anyone to think otherwise is so suppressed they can no longer think for themselves anymore.
If anyone is interested in watching this recap is pretty much only the first season, some of the second as well. There's 5 seasons of EXCELLENT TV in the show, highly recommend it.
It definitely resonates, and i used to watch it a lot. Since then I learned i was actually autistic which made a lot of sense and was such a relief to me in understanding why i couldn't really function and socialize like normal people seemed to do. Finding out i was autistic also put me on a path to becoming more detached from society though as instead of my life before full of doing things trying to fit in with a world that didn't make sense to me, it gave me the freedom to finally question things and look at us humans from an outside point of view like an interested alien life form.
@@lenuvian don't get me wrong. I'm not utterly focused on labels, and autism and neurodivergence to me is nothing but an oversimplification of trying to characterize brains that don't function in the same way as the prevailing wisdom says they should. I never really bought into social constructs and the obsession with short term societal norms that are shifting all the time, superficial behavior and doing tasks that don't really have any benefit at all apart from to seem busy. I've come to believe that "neurodivergence" was how we functioned first as a species, before we got lost in complex civilisation where we needed to focus on these kinds of things and being a happy part of a barely functioning machine. That's where what we call "neurotypical" traits became an advantage and spread, as people became more immersed in the artificial world dreamed up around us, buying into the nonsense of imaginary countries and the ilk. Autism and the ilk is very likely an evolutionary throwback to our time as a species living in much smaller communities inhabiting and living in the true world around us, not the fantasy world our species tends to immerse ourselves and mistake as reality.
@@lenuvian it's more that finding out i had autism gave me the freedom to truly question the things taken as absolute by much of society, and truly seeing that society itself bases far too much on shared delusions, like a concept of money that's lost all meaning as the system obsesses over unfathomable levels of immaterial "wealth" that doesn't even exist aside from being stored on a computer. Money is just a concept our species came up with, but we have allowed it to become an all encompassing entity in itself and think of it as absolute, even as the value of the real money normal people deal with has declined drastically in favour of imaginary billions and trillions.
I'm in almost the exact same situation, I also didn't realize I was on the spectrum until I was an adult, people don't usually think about girls having autism/aspergers but looking back it was so obvious. Finding this out explained so many confusing things about my life, why I could never connect to anyone, my unusual interests, etc. I agree with you about neurodivergence, I don't think of it as a disorder, maybe we have hunter gatherer brains in a world full of farmers. I plan to leave society eventually and live off grid with my animals, I also want to be a painter. I never feel alone anymore, I used to feel depressed because I never understood why I was the way I was and I felt constant pressure to talk to people and make a lot of friends. I am now very happy since I accept myself the way I am and focus on pursuing my interests.
I need to check this series out. The only thing I question is in a society where the masses are addicted to social media, I don't see them readily joining the uprise. My girlfriend can't leave tiktok alone for more than a few hours. Imagine when people are even more addicted to the metaverse. I can't imagine them wanting to give it up easily. They would probably vilify the people taking it away from them, even if it's for their own good.
I got bored and annoyed with Mr. Robot halfway into season 3. Just got too convoluted and confusing. It's like the writers didn't know what to do with the plot anymore and went full ADHD mode.
I haven't even watched GOT, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, or any of those "must watch" TV series. ...but Mr. Robot hit me DEEP. I watched the entire series in a week.
@Raymond Sims not similar story lines no just same development of the characters, pacing, feeling you get watching it, great acting I dunno I just bet if you like one you'd like the other!
You use Elliot so much in your other vidoes, I can tell you have wanted to make this video for ages. Cant wait to watch Mr Robot thx to you! Love how all the commands used in the hacker scenes are accurate, as a programmer it really makes me happy
It fell out of public discussion because the ending wasn't satisfactory. They pretended it was all about Elliot. It never was. It was about us getting to watch the supposed ruling "Elite" find a world where they get their just desserts, where we get a glimpse at what that might look like and what it would take for it to come about. The character was the backdrop tool to that mechanism. And they chickened out and dropped the ball.
I think you're even over-praising it. The first season was good because it followed the basic plot of Fight Club. And that first season exactly follows your reasoning, you got it, exactly. But it wasn't just the ending. It was everything after season one. All of it.
Every character in Mr. Robot matters, really all actors did excellent job. Also soundtrack slaps and camera is top notch. There are only few minor things that bothered me like Elliot had always perfect hair and he look jacked and fit even when he did bunch of drugs and sit all day behind computer. And ending felt a little bit rushed, but overall this show is really a masterpiece I rewatch it every year or so and still loving it.
That's not really what the show is about. But everyone gets something different i guess. Eliot is just someone dealing(very badly) with deep trauma. His hatred for society is mostly based on paranoia.
Never even thought about me liking a show than breaking bad until I got into mr robot. Man I want everyone to watch it. The fact that such a masterpiece of a tv show is underrated saddens me
One of the best shows in my list. Truly underappreciated, a few days ago I was thinking to rewatch it. Even though as a screenwriter It has a bunch of holes and inconsistencies regarding his mental state you see characters that are supposed to be in his head interacting with real ones and a lot more but its a show after all its to be expected.
Sometimes I don’t realize how bad at conversation I am. I don’t know how to think before I speak, and so I say a lot of strange, weird things that make me seem like a freak. I often say what intrusive thought is on my mind, no matter how good or bad it is, and I also force myself to laugh or say “I’m joking” the moment I realize what the hell just came out of my mouth. I struggle with eye contact, it is something that I can barely do even if I force myself, and I’ll often begin to scan my environment and notice every detail of the person’s body language before I consider looking at their eyes. I cannot read the room for the life of me, and can really ruin and sour moods with just a sentence. And yet, despite all of this, after all of the failed conversations over the years, I still cannot stop this. It is ruining my chances at getting a girlfriend, or making even regular friends, because I know I am an interesting person with fun hobbies, but my conversation skills are so irregular that it makes me seem like an alien species. I talk too much, I talk over people, I say out of context bullshit, I speak without thinking and say whatever the hell is on my mind, no matter how decrepit or dark it may be. It drives away what few friends I have, and it makes me only want to hide away, only making my ability to converse even worse. I can’t even have a normal conversation with my mother and father, the two people I am closest to, and I try my best to actively avoid talking to them. Society isn’t meant for people like me. Fools who are genuinely interesting in terms of hobbies and likes and dislikes, but unable to act normal. We struggle to go out and confront others with problems, make friends, try for love, and even enjoy time spent with family. I take 3 different medications for anxiety and ADHD, as well as a supplement to take as needed, and I am still like this. So instead, we settle for writing long comments on youtube videos that no one asked for, that get a bit too personal, because at least then we can talk about our feelings, and edit our comments to redact and remove things that we shouldn’t have said. It is backwards from the norm: usually people start out real and become internet fakes, but we start out as fake and can only be real on the internet.
This was for sure an amazing series. I always wondered why it didn't gain more traction. I think it's only because the series itself wasn't on something like Netflix.
There’s a reason everyone in Infosec/ethical hacking says mr robot is incredible - large consensus that it is one of the few almost reasonably accurate depictions of hacking.
