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Elliot tries to process his trauma as Darlene and Dom try to avoid more of their own on Mr. Robot season 4.

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This Mr. Robot review contains spoilers.

Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 8

The longest Christmas Day ever continues on Mr. Robot, as we all kind of maybe start wondering if this mythical Deus Group meeting – as well as Elliot’s proposed hack of the shadowy corporation’s wealth and even Whiterose’s endgame plan – is just something we all came up with during a shared fever dream.

Is the journey more important than the destination? This season of Mr. Robot would kind of indicate that’s the case, since it’s less clear than ever that we’re actually going anywhere of any significance. At least in terms of an overall narrative.

The thing is, much like the other installments in the middle section of this final season,...

The Performer | Rami Malek

The Show | Mr. Robot

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The Episode | “407 Proxy Authentication Required” (Nov. 17, 2019)

The Performance | For four seasons now, as genius hacker Elliot, Malek has been nearly impenetrably cool, burying any and all recognizable human emotions deep underneath that black hoodie of his. This week, though, the hoodie lifted, and Malek expertly exposed a torrent of inner pain inside Elliot in an absolutely harrowing hour of television.

Elliot and his therapist Krista...

Elliot’s broken psyche is front and center in an episode that finally reveals Mr. Robot’s origins.

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Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 7

Halfway through Mr. Robot’s final season, it’s less clear than ever what sort of endgame we’re moving toward. “Proxy Authentication Required” is a riveting hour, to be sure, with great performances from all the actors involved. But it also forces us to ask – is season 4 more than a series of great individual pieces strung together from week to week? What is this season building toward?

That question – as has been the case for the past few episodes – will have to wait until next week. But at least the distraction in the meantime is pretty great.

Here, creator Sam Esmail puts together an installment structured as a play in five acts, which focuses exclusively on Vera’s...

Sunday was a silent night indeed for Mr. Robot, with a special episode that followed Elliot and Darlene’s Christmas Day hacking heist… with virtually no dialogue at all.

Continuing where last week left off, Darlene picks up Elliot after he and Mr. Robot torch the Dark Army van and the body inside. He’s exhausted, so she tells him: “It’s cool, man. We don’t need to talk.” And then they don’t for the rest of the episode, as they plan and execute a daring break-in to infiltrate the Virtual Reality servers. Elliot gets Darlene a fake employee ID — as Dolores Haze,...

Joseph Baxter Sep 20, 2019

Mr. Robot Season 4 will be the USA Network show's last. Here is everything we know about it.

USA Network's Mr. Robot Season 4 is almost here, leaving hackers everywhere to rejoice.

Sadly, the fourth season of Mr. Robot will be the show's last. Show creator Sam Esmail confirmed once and for all that Mr. Robot Season 4 will be the final season. Oh well, to the nice farm upstate for retired dramas with you.

Mr. Robot has been a critical win for the network since the beginning. Stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater have received numerous award nominations, including an Emmy win for Malek for Best Actor in 2016. The series also stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin, Martin Wallström, Grace Gummer, Michael Cristofer, and Bd Wong. Additionally, actor Bobby Cannavale received praise after joining in Season 3.

We’ve covered Mr. Robot Season 3 in-depth, including a behind-the-scenes interview on how the...

Before it premiered, many fans wondered how Mr. Robot Season 2 could possibly top the series' amazing first season, which was widely regarded as one of the best of 2015.

Now that the season has included with the shocking, incredible Mr. Robot Season 2 Finale, one thing is very clear: while the show didn't consistently match the highs of the first season, there was plenty to love about it. Occasionally, there were even moments and performances that were even better than Mr. Robot Season 1.

Angela was brought in on Whiterose's plan, Elliot was shot by a returned-from-the-"dead" Tyrell Wellick, and Darlene wound up squarely in the hands of the FBI after Cisco's tragic death.

We're taking a look back at the best and the worst (and the strangest) of the past 12 installments of Mr. Robot. Check out our report card, and let us know your thoughts!

1. Best Cameo Appearance Alf is really...

The predominant theme of this season seems to be that control is an illusion.

Mr. Robot Season 2 Episode 3 drove that point home thoroughly, with several characters echoing versions of the same thing: There is, quite simply, no way to remain in control of a life that is, by necessity, random and chaotic.

"Kernel Panic" was, as usual, a brilliant installment of an always-brilliant series. Particularly impressive was the way the show managed to weave in time to significantly develop new characters Dom Dipierro (the FBI agent investigation the 5/9 Hack) and Ray, Elliot's new, very questionable, friend.

To start with, Romero was murdered. Romero was one of the fsociety hackers who was more outwardly suspicious about Elliot and his leadership skills (and sanity). Elliot pulled a gun on him, so Romero's doubts were fair.

We didn't get to see Romero's manner of death onscreen – Mobley found his corpse (and a bad...

Nothing is a coincidence or an accident in Mr. Robot, Sam Esmail's hacker psychothriller that wormed its way into last year's TV season like a particularly efficient computer virus. Visually stunning and meticulously plotted, the first season tapped into a rich vein of paranoia and disillusion running through the heart of late-stage capitalist society — in other words, it's not exactly your typical USA Network fare, a channel known for play-it-safe shows like Royal Pains and White Collar.

Told from the perspective of Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), a brilliant but...

Mr. Robot is all about our vulnerabilities. Whether it’s a daemon or a bug, everyone has a weakness to hide, and the only way to truly know — and potentially control — someone is to learn their quirks. Even though episode five is titled “Exploits,” a nod to the caper Elliot and FSociety hope to pull off at Steel Mountain, the title’s secondary meaning revolves around exploiting those weaknesses to break down a person, akin to a hacker accessing a system or network and then exerting total dominance.Fernando Vera wasn’t smart enough to hide his drug dealings and other crimes — “This isn’t the imitation game,” his lawyer tells him. “The code is not that complicated” — and for the sake of efficiency, he is now facing decades in prison (potentially at a super-max). Fernando likely would have preferred the old-fashioned way of dealing, keeping his name off social...

From the moment Elliot first exposed a massive child-pornography ring enabled by a coffee shop’s lightning-quick Wi-Fi, we have expected Mr. Robot’s main character to be constantly meticulous. Elliot simply does not ever mess up. He burns his motherboard, outwits men in black, and code-names and collects each of his hacks in a giant CD booklet. But a decision to save Shayla by tipping off the police to Fernando Vera, her dealer (who, thanks to Elliot’s information, was subsequently charged with murder), meant that Elliot no longer has a way to balance his now-spiraling morphine addiction. Elliot starts to go through withdrawal, allowing sloppiness to creep not only into his work but also into FSociety’s. That makes episode four, which doesn’t so much advance the plot as expand the dimensions of the four other FSociety members, the most interesting hour of Mr. Robot to date.