NOT NP: Mr Fucking Robot, Season 2

[jesse gooch]

Lawrence - I’m glad it’s not just me.

> On Jul 24, 2017, at 10:47 AM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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