Mr. Robot

Nothing to see here. Move along ... Elliott is a jerk. He's all tortured and moral and ready to do the right thing until the "evil" corporate exec is rude to the helpless, hapless woman that he secretly loves ,and in that moment he decides to frame said exec to the feds. Mr exec is also a jerk and probably richly deserves the punishment that he will get for something, but that not why he'll be punished, oh no, he'll be punished because he - correctly - surmised and identified that Elliott's girlfriend was an airhead. What an amazing white knight is Elliott. What a predictable, vapid writer is the fool who came up with this tired rehash of "brilliant, capable but shy boy saves stupid and useless girl - actually girl(s) -from her own ineptitude." Plenty here to offend everyone. Oh - and the Linux and code references are LAME. Just what you would expect Hollywood's vision of a Hacker would be.

...lame. Your first warning is the stereotypical hoodie. Next you get a hacker who engages targets in the real world. As if. The protag is hallow, passing-off vaguely updated cliche social criticism as "a new generation's voice". Remindd me of the cheesy 60s shows that tried to cash-in on "hippy culture". I'm giving it two stars instead of one because it could still work-out: Maybe fire the writers, and borrow the staff of Halt and Catch Fire?

The quality is wildly inconsistent between episodes - many are extremely well done, while others have absolutely abysmal writing/acting. In season 2 the product placement is often super jarring and tangential to the story. Darlene in particular has some pretty terrible scenes - ranting against capitalism and then turning around and giving a 30 second hypocritical technobabble infomercial.