He identifies a file labeled fsociety00.dat and a text file asking him not to destroy malware he finds hidden on E Corp's server. Elliot stops a DDoS attack against Allsafe's biggest client, E Corp. At night, he hacks social media, personal information, and bank records, including those of his co-workers, therapist, and a drug dealer. Socially inept Elliot Alderson works at cyber security company Allsafe. What it certainly wasn’t was boring.Episodes Season 1 (2015) įirst-season episode titles have a suffix corresponding to a type of digital container format. None of his characterisation was subtle, but that’s hardly the goal here. That was a reversal from the closet scene in which, Tyrell’s violent side having been established under that bridge, he appeared to be her aggressor. Tyrell was positioned as the dominant partner in all three, but though his pregnant wife-a woman who obviously shares his goals in life-may have been the submissive, she was evidently calling the shots. Provocative as his sex-and-violence scenes were no doubt intended to be (‘we’re on cable!’ might as well have been water-stamped over them), they were also revealing in terms of power. This one was all about Tyrell (played by Martin Wallstrom), the kind of character who only exists in darkly satirical thrillers, a Swedish Patrick Bateman prepared to connive, seduce and maim his way to the top. What’s not robotic and inhuman about that?Įpisode three certainly held the line after Mr Robot’s first two strong outings.
Human lives are routinely sacrificed in a capitalist quest to be competitive and turn a profit. This week’s revelation that the Evil Corp exec that Elliot framed in episode one knew that the firm’s actions would cause cancer in its employees yet did nothing was chief proof of that. Much as he’s curious about its comforts, Elliot clearly sees ‘normality’ as robotic, the actions of an automaton race, controlled by the invisible hand of capitalism.įinally, not to get too ponderous about it all, capitalism is as robotic and emotionless as it comes. The ones that smile, go to dinner parties, join gyms, watch stupid Marvel movies, drink Starbucks and listen to Len’s Steal My Sunshine despite it being 2015.
Which leaves us with all the other Mr Robots. If we need to look back and see the source of Elliot’s social issues, there’s one starting point. She showed no instinct to comfort her child, denying his feelings as useless and impractical. Shock or grief or some kind of pathological condition seemed to have divorced her from all feeling. Or how about Elliot’s Borg Queen mother, as seen in that flashback after his father’s death. His ambition is what cuts Tyrell off from human emotions, making him seem psychopathic and yes, robotic. What could be more robotic than obsessively drilling that promotion speech, aiming for perfection in everything from his straightened tie to the cadence of his delivery? It was no accident in a show with this title when Tyrell chastised himself for sounding like “a cold robot”.
He’s Mr Robot in more ways than one.Īnd then comes Tyrell Wellick, to whose peculiar behaviour much of episode three was devoted. Elliot has with computers what socially-at-ease people have in groups: an instinctive affinity. He carefully measures out and counteracts his various doses, and this week explores an episode-long metaphor about the bug in his perfect maze of source code. Not only does it sound like the kind of cruel nickname schoolkids might assign to an outsider like him, someone who struggles to fit in socially and emotionally, but he certainly sees himself more as a piece of tech than a human. Elliot does seem more deserving of the pseudonym.
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