Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker

Re:Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker by stormbrew on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:57PM (#13126146)

The show's heavy lean on the unreliable narrator aspect is what eventually made me lose interest in it (near the end of the first season). At a certain point, a narrator can become so unreliable that there's no actual story anymore. Just increasingly opaque layers of obfuscation.

What I've heard about the second season only made me more glad of my decision to stop watching.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker by cheald on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @04:00PM (#13126171)

I think that's a fair critique. S2 definitely went full on "you have no idea what is real or not", which is either going to be extremely satisfying or extremely dissatisfying based on how S3 turns out.

At some point, the obfuscation has to resolve. I felt like it resolved reasonably well in S1, though S2 definitely did the LOST thing and just left you hanging for S3. I'm hopeful, though, as Sam Esmail has apparently written the whole story from start to finish, so he hopefully knows where it's going well enough to give it a graceful resolution.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker by hfourm on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @04:04PM (#13126208)

Totally. I fully 5/5 loved the first season, but it started to go in a direction I didn't love towards the end.

I couldn't even make it through the first episode of season 2.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker by drvdevd on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @08:39PM (#13127771)

Exactly how I felt.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker by astrodust on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:55PM (#13128081)

It's just more candid in its unreliable narrator aspect than other films.

The Wolf of Wall Street employs a similar trick for part of the film to great effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZhGPH83ZHE

[ Parent | on HN ]