NOT NP: Mr Fucking Robot, Season 2

[John Bailey]

If you skipped to episode 10 you would be absolutely bewildered as to
what's going on. Recall that in episode one he explains that a simple
mental hack he did to himself means he now sees "Evilcorp" whenever he
reads "E-Corp" - that kind of reality hacking goes a lot further.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:19 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
> <sigh> Okay, I’m giving it a try. Downloaded season 1 from iTunes, or rater
> tried to. Took several hundred dollars to get it installed as when I
> replaced my hard drive last December the now-gone tech forgot a crucial part
> that Apple needed for me to be able to download stuff from iTunes. But
> finally got episode 1 installed for $2.99. I watched it. Just interesting
> enough to want to watch episode 2 and since I was already out so much,
> another $22.00 was peanuts. Maybe someone who watched the whole thing can
> tell what happened after he apparently got shot getting a fix at the end of
> episode ? and seemed perfectly fine on episode ?+1. (Perfectly fine for
> Elliot, in need of serious help for the average man.) I’ve not watched all
> 10 episodes; am tempted to skip to episode 10 to find out if they ever nail
> Evilcorp. On the whole I’m not impressed with the story. It has the
> traditional soap opera format tat can drag on indefinitely, the arch never
> coming back down. The acting is good. I may have liked it more if I could
> somehow turn off the god damned awful irritating computer generated music.
>
> Lawrence
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2017, at 3:48 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Such a delicious show. The viewer is a function of the protagonist's mind
> and because we're privy to info he isn't, by season 2 the relationship
> becomes quite antagonistic. If you know nothing of it, just go into season
> one blind, with loins girded and pearls within clutching distance.
>
> On 23 Jul 2017 6:41 AM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is PostMod TV at its finest.  The reality footing is ALWAYS in
>> question.  And the characters are also fucking crazy.
>>
>> Fun fun fun
>> David Morris
>
>
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