NOT NP: Mr Fucking Robot, Season 2

[L E Bryan]

Okay, I watched the whole 9 yards - I have no idea why my fingers typed that - and the structure reminded me of so many alternate reality themed series. Some writer gets an idea for a neat piece of business and to get it into the show bends the viewer’s reality. Take “Hero’s” for example; a writer would come up with a neat problem and the solution would be a new deus ex machanish  mutant. If season 2 is even worse, I’ll pass.

Lawrence


On Jul 24, 2017, at 3:55 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That reality hacking really steps it up in Season 2.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:28 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com <mailto:sundayjb at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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