Monday, September 7, 2015

Television Symbolism Log 004: Mr. Robot

June 24, 2015, Series Premiere of Mr. Robot


The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cybersecurity company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot's thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", and joins his team of hacktivists known as "fsociety". One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (known as "Evil Corp" by Elliot), which also happens to be Allsafe's biggest client.


Also within the airing of the first season a few real time synchronicities occurred.

1. Ashley Madison Hack.[Link]

2. The season finale was delayed for a week, due to an on-air news shooting in real life.

*The first season finale was postponed one week from its originally scheduled air date of August 26, 2015, because the episode includes a scene with similarities to the Roanoke, Virginia murders, which happened earlier the same day. [Wiki]

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