Connections

Creator Sam Esmail cites film as an influence. Each story is about a disturbed anarchist youth living in what they perceive as a perverse, dystopian society. Each protagonist suffers from severe psychological impairments and influences others to revolt against the Establishment.

Creator Sam Esmail cites film as an influence. Both stories are about a misunderstood, isolated male protagonist with notable issues concerning social interaction. Each protagonist expresses desires to lash out against fake people in a fake society, later putting their desires into action with deadly results. Both suffer from loneliness, delusions and severe psychological impairments.

Creator Sam Esmail cites film as an influence. Both stories are about a white collar, cubicle worker who expresses desires to lash out against fake people in a fake society, later putting their desires into action with deadly results. Both suffer from paranoid delusions and severe psychological impairments. Each protagonist is manipulated by an anarchist extremist into leading a violent social revolution against the global banking cartels with the hopes of erasing all financial debt in order to free society from the control of the Establishment. In a surprise twist, each anarchist extremist is revealed to be the alter ego of the protagonist.

Creator Sam Esmail cites film as an influence. In both stories, the main character leads a violent social revolution against the Establishment. A united front of societal revolutionaries are formed in their wake. The "FSOCIETY" mask worn by protestors in "Mr. Robot" is based on the Guy Fawkes mask popularized by "V for Vendetta".

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Prologue and the plot of the episode spoof this series.

Spoofed during prerecorded Mr. Robot sketch

Elliot Alderson attends fourth wall rehab.