It’s way too stimulating for me. I know people these days have short attention spans but it’s just distracting as hell and not worth the effort, especially for a 3 hour video.
It took me a while to watch this. I just got to the end of it and mannnnn. You did such a good job I hope you do season 2 - 4. I love this style of video and it opens my eyes to new ways to take in the show. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what else you got
This was a great analysis, and I really enjoyed the focus on the heroes journey, and also the ideas on how the opponent of White Rose was introduced, I'm glad you went for insane detail, and I really enjoyed! Keep reviewing, loved the outro too lol
Recently finished Mr.Robot. After the 1st season it kind of took my joy seeing the hole idea is a Fight Club ripoff. I had to watch 2nd season nearly to the end to be again blown away by a good plot twist in order for me to give it a real chance. Indeed is the best ripoff of all time and in a good way.
@@fyndssdev why tf must you lads always mention breaking bad? 🤔yes breaking bad is one of the best shows ever without question, and it’s one of my all time favorites. But this video is about MR ROBOT which is also one of the best shows ever
Mr. Robot understands the 5-act structure so well honestly. They’ve done it on an episodic (407), seasonal (S1), and whole-show level. Act #1 - episodes 1-9 Act #2 - S1 ep. 10, all of S2, and S3 ep. 1 Act #3 - S3 episodes 2-10 Act #4 - S4 ep. 1-9 Act #5 - the last 4 episodes The entire show is just a master class in narrative structure
It's actually a bit of a mess structurally. It's claim to fame is narrative COHESION. An imo much more important aspect of storytelling than structure.
@@TheAlexLangnermister xj9 benefits from having the same director, this allows for maximum narrative cohesion. That being a creative vision followed to the end with no other hands in the mix trying to change things up. But people are people, and one person is capable of making mistakes in structure. See angry European man's ending. That 5 act structure you applied to the whole series is cool, it just too bad you pulled it out of your ass.
Pity you didn't mention that the ending to episode 9 is "Where is my mind" by The Pixies, a direct ode to Fight Club. Such a beautiful rendition of the song too.
There is an ending to an episode in a later season which is a lullaby rendition of “Basket Case” by Green Day. The use of rock music in this show is something I appreciate a lot tbh
It's upsetting so many people think Tyrell and Elliot are the same person. He has a wife and kid a different job, Elliot lives in a different place and goes to prison while they look for Tyrell
As much as I dislike the theory. This would honestly be the type of show to do an insane reveal like that. I think Tyrell and Elliot being the same person would be really cool IF It was something intended by Sam Esmail and his writers. In the show it just doesn't feel that way whatsoever for so many reasons
Real Elliot is in the image of Tyrell, Tyrell is a creation to carry out what Elliot can’t, Fake Elliot was the show while Tyrell died on the blue screen of death leaving the real Elliot at the end (looking like Tyrell). No actual person in the real world looked like Elliot. That’s my take 😅
@@blondeguy08 Uhm please elaborate. I'm a huge fan/nerd, redditor, rewatcher, and clues finder for this show, but I don't think that as well. Enlighten me!
@@faccc lookup Mr Robot Ending breakdown by kitchen films. Tyrell is actually the main character/original host while Elliot is the mastermind is his alter ego.
It was excellent but I did kinda annoy myself cause I was trying to focus on where the takes could be seamlessly edited together. It breaks immersion a bit.
You're right about the Darlene and Elliot connection being the most interesting. It really highlights the duality of two people suffering from trauma, in polar opposite ways. Darlene is the victim that internalizes the anger/hate instead of creating illusions, she is a whole other force of reckoning, but because of this is also more chaotic. Elliot create psychological illusions that keep him in a sort of equilibirum with his trauma, "protecting" him from internal pain. The show illuminates how in both respects, the trauma will seep out and without realizations and change, the seep will gradually become a tidal wave.
Elliot's trauma was a little more intense. Darlene had survivor's guilt and PTSD. Elliot had full on DID/MPD going on. You're right in that the way it has been expressed is due to how different they are in how they deal. Darlene drinks, drugs, and acts out as the lonely extrovert she is. Elliot bottles up his pain and releases it in these blackout sessions.. The show was just so well written, directed, and filmed. It will be an all time favorite for a very very long time.
I loved Fight Club as a teenager, but there were a lot of themes in that movie that didn't really resonate with me on a personal level. Not surprising considering that it was a film about the struggles of masculinity in the economic prosperity of the late 1990s, and I was a young woman growing up in the economic shithole of the early 2000s. Mr. Robot hit different because it feels like it was made for my generation and it doesn't feel like it's targeted at any specific gender. I also think Mr. Robot does a better job of critiquing capitalism and corporate American greed, as well as handling topics of mental illness and abuse with more nuance than Fight Club.
Fight club is still a good movie in 2022 replace destruction of banks to destruction of bad habits create a new persona don't over do self help do it in moderation.
You should probably read the book Fight Club, but it's basically commentary about "how to be masculine in a de-masculine world, especially if you are gay". This is primarly because the author himself is gay, has an awful relationship with his father, and has been affected by violence. Which explains a lot of his themes in the book. Being a family man makes you less of man. Being a worker bee makes you less of man. Being gay makes you less of man. Loving mom makes you less of man. Basically the whole point of Fight Club is this idea that the only way to legitmatize your gender as a man is to crave it out of something, let it be through your fists into someone else's skull, or schisming yourself to do it. DID, while present in Fight Club, it's more about how far men go to control their manhood rather than control as an illness. Controlling manhood in the logical extreme sense is quite flawed, as seen in Fight Club with MC and Tyler(I think the main character real name is Sebastion). But I do think all men go through this inner conflict of what is masculine and what is not. And sometimes this negotion is internal and sometimes its not. The reason the book doesn't speak to women directly is because in a way women as a culture are the antagonist to the characters. Im guessing for women, reading/watching Fight Club is like a peak into masculintiy. Idk. But I do think that Fight Club without masclunity as a cental theme really isn't Fight Club. Whereas Mr. Robot is basically using DID as a way to talk about control and what kinds of lengths you can mentally go to be establish control. Control is a major theme of masculity, but can be used to discuss mental illiness specifcally as a male, or a person living in modern world. So while sure, Tyler and Mr. Robot are simular in inseption(ie characters created thorugh DID), Tyler is Control Created Through Manhood whereas Mr. Robot is Control Created By Mental Illness. Both characters are more or less relatable through what identities you are ascribed to.
Another great thing to notice is that whenever Mr Robot and Elliot are in the same frame the other characters only ever look at, acknowledge, one of them. Almost as if the other one can’t exist at the same time.
This is going to be good! You have a criminally underrated channel mate. So much effort and time clearly put in to the videos I have seen of yours. All the best for the future.
Thank you for making a 3 hour long video of my favorite show ever. While I see a lot of praise for the show I still feel like it’s underrated. Hoping it’ll blow up again thanks to this video. Cheers
Its the kind of show that's good and respected, but should be in a spotlight. It tackles modern themes better than a lot of shows coming out right now.
Sam Esmail and Vince Gilligan changed my gold standard for TV. As a massive Mr. Robot fan, I don’t think I waste a single second watching this two hours video essay.
@@trendybistro The Wire isn't as flashy (which wouldn't serve the subject well anyway) but god damn it is the only show I've seen that gets close enough to glimpse perfection
@@trendybistro My favorite show ever is Mr. Robot, love it, but I wouldn't date to put it there with The Wire. Only Breaking Bad fanboys would do that lmao
Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, and Christian Slater are all geniuses in how they directed and produced Mr. Robot. it absolutely ripped off a shit ton of shows, you can tell based on some of the references and shit you find; but, it manages to do so in a way that breathes a new life into it, give it an entirely new form while staying within the story the show wanted to tell. i fucking love it.
One of the things I found the most interesting is how E Corp, is just called plain Evil Corp by the second episode on, even by it's own employees. I always saw that as reality being unreliable to elliot. It's such a nice touch Edit: Ok sorry he does explain it I watched this season 7 years ago just didn't remember he does, and I don't think he mentions that in the video
I mean Elliot straight up says that he hates the company so much that he has hard-wired his brain to hear Evil corp whenever someone says E-corp. he also mentions jokingly that his therapist would have “a shitfit” if she found out he did that.
I rewatched this show (for like the 3rd or 4th time) recently and was wondering why the hell nobody ever talks about it. Truly one of the best things ever put on TV.
@Tesert It's the con-artist of television shows. I can excuse people loving it for its style, some episodes (i.e. cyber bombings), and even some of the acting. I do, too. But the plot itself (after s01) is pseudo-deep, pseudo-intelligent, purposefully convoluted, at times barely coherent, and cheaply told through some the most cliché narratives possible. It's all style, no substance. I watched Mr.Robot after watching Dark and the difference between the shows (that get compared and recommended by each others' fandom a lot) is staggering.
I was obsessed with this show for months. Like literally OBSESSED. It’s all I thought about 24/7. I think I watched it in its entirety 4 times. The way Elliot connects with the audience did crazy things to my mind. Like the show is such a mind fuck I literally could just keep peeling back the layers more and more and more and find more context and meaning and relevancy to our actual reality. It’s pretty funny how my obsession ended actually haha I increased my dose of anti-depressants and suddenly I found myself not so obsessed with tyrell wellick and the rest of the f society crew. Before that happened I went on a deep dive about the business psychopath and needless to say tyrell is scary accurate. Anyway, I still love this show. It’s amazing to see someone come out with a three hour long video essay on it. I wrote an essay about the dichotomy of masculinity in fight club and mentioned mr robot plenty of times in that haha. I’m glad I’m not the only one who still loves this show seven years after it’s release.
I think people can watch this show and not get that into it. Like I actually watched the first two seasons when I was a kid and didn’t relate to Elliot enough yet to get totally hooked. But I think we all have small parts of Elliot within us and that’s what makes us keep watching. We all sorta hate society, hate people, withdraw. It happened to be that this show found me in a time of my life where I was incredibly similar to Elliot in that sense. Anyway, on a lighter note, the way this show portrays hacking is amazing. Although my obsession with mr robot isn’t as strong my interest in hacking because of this show still persists and I am so captivated by the computer science world and the accuracy of it portrayed by this show. Little known fact is that Sam esmail actually had an academic strike against him because he hacked his college haha. I guess it paid off for him in the end.
Dude, same. I started watching this show around a year ago, and it took me a while, maybe three months in total, but because I took my time with each season, I was able to see all the differences in them. When I watched the first season, it inspired me into going more into IT and hacking, but the show also gave me this cozy feeling and I wanted to know more about Elliot and Tyrell, but while watching season 2 I was going through the death of someone important for me, so the show was pretty much the only thing that kept me going, it was like an escape from reality into the weird world inside Elliot's head, then it was the same with seasons 3 and 4... but it's been so much months and a lot has happened in life, I closeted myself in my mind for months, not knowing if I would ever recover, I thought about escaping home multiple times, had anxiety and heart problems, and had a serious case of drug abuse, so now whenever I see Darlene going through a breakdown, or her not being able to cope with death so easily, when I see Elliot talking about how great it feels to be in an aderall overdose until the moment the drugs come off and you can't sleep, or when I see him tricking himself into staying into his solitude life, it's like I get it more and more as time goes on, and as time puts stones in my way, but seeing him surpass all of that, and knowing that the script writers and the director probably went through similar shit and did this show to get to people in similar situations, it helps a damn lot. It truly is a show about mental growth and healing, isn't it?
the words "he is literally me" have come out of my mouth multiple times when watching this show despite being the complete opposite of what elliot is. i love rami
I know I'm late to say this but Mr. Robot inspired me to become a Final year cybersecurity student. All I can say is that Mr. Robot not only changed my perspective on mental health but also gave me a purpose to Real World hacking. I hope all of you find your inner purpose and fight your inner demons like Elliot himself. He is just like all of us despite our differences in our "inner demons". I never forget Mr robot in my life !!
@@pabloruiz821@Yiisu, pin my command. I've just finished my studies and now work as a cybersecurity engineer, just like Elliot in 'Mr. Robot.' It's amazing how a TV show changed my life. I'm excited to share my journey and insights into cybersecurity!
1:53:08 Darlene saw the dude’s diploma and correctly guessed the year as the passcode. If I remember correctly, she had tried his birth year first. I have successfully used this trick myself as most 4 digit PIN concentrate around years (19xx - 20xx) as most people are poor at generating randomness. Don’t hack the lock. Hack the human.
As someone who absolutely adores Mr Robot, I'm grateful for this analysis, though personally I wouldn't call it a rip-off rather, it be a masterpiece, inspired by masterpieces.
You don't know how long I've been waiting for more long form analyses on this show. It's got a decent following now, but it still doesn't have even a fraction of the attention it deserves
I would love to see this for all the seasons. Frankly the lack of Mr. Robot videos on RUclips is a curse. Its a pure masterpiece when it comes to a singular vision, every small event in the earlier seasons just gets sooo much better with revelations further down. 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Noooo, at the car park, in Tyrell’s car, Elliot isn’t screaming for Tyrell to come out, but rather Mr Robot. He finally uses the phone in the coffee shop to call 911 to lure him out of hiding. Great vid though, really like the shot composition breakdown ❤
Bro you got to calm down your editing. I feel like this video is in manic mode the entire time. I can barely watch the video despite enjoying your ability to convey information.
He eases into it I wouldn’t have been able to sit through the whole vid that mode but it goes from 110% to 10%. It’s not even that it’s not funny, I will agree it’s heavy handed. This seems like a new channel and it’s cool to see somebody stretch like this and it’s way better than it is at all bad. I opted this instead of rewatching the show and as I’m at the end of it I think he did great.
I watched it for the first time couple months ago and it absolutely shocked me how well done it was. Not only is it well written but as someone who appreciates cinematography the shows style is absolutely brilliant.
The scene with Angela during Elliot’s withdrawal is almost exactly the same as in the last episode when she says “you’re not Elliot, you’re the Mastermind” and the monster they kept talking about is his dad, the “do you even know what it is?” Line IMO makes that very apparent and maybe facing his trauma and accepting it is necessary for Elliot to regain total control. It seems to me that Mr Robot’s goal from the beginning was to get Mastermind to free Elliot but for some reason they couldn’t just tell him what was happening because the shock might just make everything worse so he figured his best bet was to help Mastermind accomplish the goal that he was created for, which is why Mr Robot is so insistent on continuing with the plan in the first few seasons but by season 4 he’s realizing that it’s a never ending cycle.
this was honestly a really nice deep-dive/summary of season 1, it's nice finding more recent videos on "mr. robot", it's easily my favorite show of all time. though, for the sake of anyone reading the comments, all of the flashbacks we see in the show (circa '95) are all real moments concerning elliot's father. elliot even makes a reference to 'pulp fiction', the movie he saw with his father as a child, when speaking with angela ("i think i'm pretty fucking far from okay") interestingly enough, something i've noticed upon rewatch is mr. robot is seen smoking, edward alderson is not (he's usually heard having a dry cough, as a result of his leukemia). i think it's one of the few things to help differentiate the two. i really hope this video, despite its spoilers, helps people discover this series because it's amazing.
holy crap. i thought you had at least 1m subs and was thinking “this guy is underrated” only to see you only had 1k. this is… phenomenal. if i was asked to pick my favorite youtube video, i would say this 100%. I’ve never watched this show, but i know the plot now and the way you found every detail is amazing. great job.
When you mentioned “do people eat out at 3:00AM?” I wonder if that’s a reference to the random timeskipping that is brushed over. He’s called in because of a Hack by Mr.Robot. So maybe he just took multiple hours to go home from observing their date and didn’t think about it because he was being driven by Mr.Robot?
Hey, this video was fucking fantastic, just letting you know. Watched the whole thing, it was long as BALLS but hey, as background noise there's never been anything as high quality, keep it up!
This is the benefit of story boarding everything out before filming. It creates inherent rewatchability, right after finishing the show I started it over again because I wanted to see how well they stuck to the ending throughout the show and hardly an episode goes by that doesn’t reference the truth of what is actually happening. Even the whole thing in season 2 with him being in prison, once you know what’s happening you can see the nature of the prison environment bleeding through into his delusion and honesty makes a lot more sense, I was really confused about the whole thing where he got kidnapped and held in the basement but it makes so much more sense when they reveal that the dude is a warden and that whole episode Elliot was in solitary confinement.
2:37:28 No, I'm almost certain he's calling for Mr.Robot, not Tyrell. who has been absent and only working outside of Elliot's knowledge. Making Elliot desperate for answers that only Mr.Robot can currently provide. This is made more clear later on when he resorts to self-sabotage in order to further force a conversation with Mr.Robot
I watched Mr robot literally like 2 months ago and it's my favourite show of all time. this video is amazing 👏 I hope you do the rest of the seasons especially season 4
Fantastic video. RUclips recommended it as I had never seen your videos prior. The meme editing at the start was a bit tiresome and chaotic but it was nice to revisit one of my all time favorite shows. Great work!
why are so many retrospective videos edited like this now days? It feels deliberately pandering to the modern ADD-loaded generation. It's incredibly distracting to the subject of the video, and downright obnoxious.
Started this at midnight as a chill thing to watch as I fall asleep. Now it’s 3 am and I’m hooked. While I can do well without all the adhd cut ins, you did a great job.
Did anyone else find this video painful to watch? I don't mind that hyperactive "lol ironic meme" editing style but jesus, the amount of sounds cutting in while he was talking drove me nuts within like 2 minutes
I love this show, the cast, and the fans so much everything is just perfect and relatable, the show also shows the reality of the world of how people can be doing some shady stuff that you can’t trust in the internet, and the reality of capitalism and big corporations hiding they’re evilness in the world, this was not just a show it was an experience.
One of the best videos I’ve seen on the show, you did a good job at analyzing so many aspects of this show that I love while also making me appreciate certain aspects more like the nuances of the cinematography. Looking forward to seeing more of your content. :)
I actually watched this show as a 16 yo just 6 months ago. My father said I wasn't allowed to watch, which made sense, but I decided to watch it anyway. By far the greatest show I have ever seen, and I personally actually don't think I want to find a show that would be better. The themes and ideas that it taught, while also showing the opposite end of the spectrum, showing the good and bad of everything, was so nice and refreshing.
Depending on where your from and if you could relate id suggest a classic like the wire or even snowfall. If you like believable mafia stories, id suggest another classic like the sopranos, or even a new show tusla king. If you want to watch a medical show but not interested in the corny rom coms like greys anatomy i would suggest House M.D, great show with characters you become invested in, and even after many seasons it doesnt get stale, also it has a great ending. All the shows I mentioned have great plots and characters that will have you invested, and have great endings. I hope this helped
I’m so happy that this show finally has coverage. I’ve tuned in on it way back in 2015, and while season 1 was definitely like fight club, the other seasons really show how reality would’ve responded to such a disaster. It went into the consequences of economic collapse. It also focuses a lot on Elliot’s trauma and his experiences. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a beautifully shot show that isn’t afraid to change styles. Each season felt different in color and pacing.
This format of editing should be the modern standard for long format comedic deep dives into entertainment. Haven't passed the 5 minute mark and the amount of effort has to be commended, subbed and liked.
Yo, I have never - up to this point - did the whole "subscribe, like, ring that bell" routine even for creators I follow often. I broke that streak today because of this video. This is genuinely great content. I understand it must have been an exhausting process to produce a close to three hour video, but I look forward to any additional analysis breakdowns you do. Again, outstanding work!
The best part of Mr. Robot is that its main message isn't that "corporations are bad" or "socialism is the answer to society's ills", but that family is the most important thing in your life. Also the best brother and sister dynamic I've enjoyed in a form of entertainment.
I love Mr. Robot, but tbh this is the worst part of the show. Esmail is a milquetoast liberal IRL, so it's not very surprising--though he didn't really shoehorn in some super anti-radical narrative as I often feared be was about to do. I'm ultimately pretty okay with the fact that he made the show more personal, and you can very much read Elliot's opposition to unjust power as moving and legitimate given his family experience with it, but the anti-capitalist veneer and the generational relatability are a big part of what drew me to the show, and it's kind of a disappointment and a pity that Esmail chose to conclude with the implication that, "like, those aren't the things that actually really matter, right?", despite all the evidence to the contrary--evidence he seems to be very well aware of.
Halfway through, and this is quite possibly the best written, most entertaining and most eloquently put-together video essay on Mr. Robot. I’d love to see you do one on another underrated TV show such as this one.
Watched s1 when it came out, right after a fightclub phase, so i caught on pretty quickly and spoiled everything for my parents. It remains as my alltime favorite and goddamnit most underrated show. I would even go as far as to say this was one of the main reasons i went on to go to college to study just about everything in the film industry. Loved the excessive deepdive into every episodes and even though i have seen the show several times myself you were still able to point out things i hadnt thought about before! Thats when you know you got good shit.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching all 3 hours of this video. This show is so special to me and you nailed the summary for S1. I'd love to get another video like this for S2. Subscribed and looking forward to more content like this. Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort that must've been needed to make this video!
Not going to lie this long vid turned out to be pretty good with what the plot of the show is, the characters on what they're going through and overall, a great review on this show. Great video man, earned a sub and hopefully a season 2 review video comes out
Hey buddy as a guy in the industry. What boomers use is firefox. for some reason i think it makes them feel techy cause its not a default browser. But yeah i laughed at the facebook dig. i literally have one just so i can keep tabs on people cause im not very social.
Upon watching it at first it just seems like a show about a hacker living in a complex distopya where it seems identical to our world yet eerily strange where the whole world seems depressed and dull. However after progressing with the show hacking becomes a component of it and not the actual focus. It’s centered around the human mind. Not only about Elliot but about other characters in the show. It shows an array of diffrent people and their dark sides they seems to hide despite portraying diffrent personas to the general public. Overall a great show 10/10 no doubt it may seem a little boring as first but as the show advances it gets so much better.
I love your style of video, genuinely delivering on your topic while adding shitpost memes in the process, like Pyrocynical but less inside jokes, i love it.
Seriously, your commentary is good, but if you are gonna throw memes to spice it up just mute them, otherwise it kind of overshadows your voice Good vid BTW, nothing better than a 2 hour essay on whatever. Really the best genre in RUclips
incredible video mane! the balance between humor, exposition and lore is very refreshing especially after watching the show in its entirety atleast twice. wishing you all the support you deserve bro. 10/10 vid
Ripoff is a strong term, its clearly influenced by Fight Club, but it also draws from several other sources and is a lot more nuanced than Fight Club, which you do touch on in this video, I just want to save someone the 3 hours.
Wow, you've really done a great job taking apart this series I mean, the way you talk about the camera work, the score in each scene, the characters, I feel like I'm there with them I would love to watch a video essay you might make on the second season
That was a banger of a video. Great editing, dude. It honestly flew by in a flash, and has got me craving more. Tbh probably gonna binge the rest of your vids because you've got some great quality
I always saw mr robot as some strange form of a “greatest hits” album, it’s like a collection of all of the best scenes ever filmed plus this really nuanced and beautiful story about reconciling with trauma and a world that has taken everything you love away.
Watched the whole thing start to finish and this was a really good breakdown video. Obviously reminds me of a *cough* _certain_ video, but still really well done and I look forward to the next. ☺
I first watched this show at Florida State Hospital and was floored by it beyond comprehension bc it was the first time I saw someone using Kali Linux on cable TV... Thank you so much USA for hosting this show bc mental hospitals suck ass and this show meant the world 🌎 to me 😚👍
Angela is a really interesting character. I cheered for her. I can empathize her feelings for revenge. She didn't just hired some lawyer. She made an alliance with a worse enemy which finally cost her mental health. Rumors say she only died because the actress had to leave the series. Non the less she always stole the scene, just like her father. His presence was hipnotizing too.
Just finished the video, WE NEED ANOTHER VIDEO WITH SEASON 2 IF NOT THE REST OF THE SHOW, This was amazing to watch from start to finish, you've definitely earned another subscriber!
This is a very amazing video I don't usually write comments, but I have to point this out since you're a new creator The volume of the zoomer edits is very high compared to your voice, this caused me a literal headache, please consider the dynamic range of your audio next time.
I have a love/hate relationship with this editing. It’s so funny yet so exhausting. This is a compliment.
Yeah ikr the editing was a bit too much in the beginning. But it got better after the first 20-30 min. Loved it.
it made me come very close to closing the video and never watching it lmao it's so annoying
Music is trying too hard
I like this vibe, but this is just too much
It’s way too stimulating for me. I know people these days have short attention spans but it’s just distracting as hell and not worth the effort, especially for a 3 hour video.
How long did he even edit this?
It took me a while to watch this. I just got to the end of it and mannnnn. You did such a good job I hope you do season 2 - 4. I love this style of video and it opens my eyes to new ways to take in the show. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what else you got
A two hour breakdown/documentary on a show I literally never heard of before by a RUclipsr that I don't know?
Hell yeah man, let's go! Subscribed.
This was a great analysis, and I really enjoyed the focus on the heroes journey, and also the ideas on how the opponent of White Rose was introduced, I'm glad you went for insane detail, and I really enjoyed! Keep reviewing, loved the outro too lol
17:32 Man how dare you do us like that with the music
Recently finished Mr.Robot. After the 1st season it kind of took my joy seeing the hole idea is a Fight Club ripoff. I had to watch 2nd season nearly to the end to be again blown away by a good plot twist in order for me to give it a real chance. Indeed is the best ripoff of all time and in a good way.
Sam Esmail came out of nowhere and made one of the best shows of all time then dipped
He made a movie !
breaking bad?
@@fyndssdev why tf must you lads always mention breaking bad? 🤔yes breaking bad is one of the best shows ever without question, and it’s one of my all time favorites. But this video is about MR ROBOT which is also one of the best shows ever
@@raymondsims7042 ok and?
@@fyndssdev what did you mention breaking bad for when the man was praising mr robot?
Mr. Robot understands the 5-act structure so well honestly. They’ve done it on an episodic (407), seasonal (S1), and whole-show level.
Act #1 - episodes 1-9
Act #2 - S1 ep. 10, all of S2, and S3 ep. 1
Act #3 - S3 episodes 2-10
Act #4 - S4 ep. 1-9
Act #5 - the last 4 episodes
The entire show is just a master class in narrative structure
It's actually a bit of a mess structurally. It's claim to fame is narrative COHESION. An imo much more important aspect of storytelling than structure.
@@xenn4985 What do you mean lol
@@TheAlexLangnermister xj9 benefits from having the same director, this allows for maximum narrative cohesion. That being a creative vision followed to the end with no other hands in the mix trying to change things up.
But people are people, and one person is capable of making mistakes in structure. See angry European man's ending.
That 5 act structure you applied to the whole series is cool, it just too bad you pulled it out of your ass.
@@TheAlexLangner narrative structure is where a,b,and c goes. Narrative cohesion is how tight a,b,and c is presented.
@@Discosn8ke Oh interesting, I honestly never knew that
Pity you didn't mention that the ending to episode 9 is "Where is my mind" by The Pixies, a direct ode to Fight Club. Such a beautiful rendition of the song too.
There is an ending to an episode in a later season which is a lullaby rendition of “Basket Case” by Green Day. The use of rock music in this show is something I appreciate a lot tbh
It’s what they call “hanging a lantern on it”. Came here to comment that, thought he gave the nod to Fight Club.
Yess I loved that
@@fnamelname8906 The choice of music and scoring in general is just perfect. M83 really elevated certain scenes.
It's upsetting so many people think Tyrell and Elliot are the same person. He has a wife and kid a different job, Elliot lives in a different place and goes to prison while they look for Tyrell
As much as I dislike the theory. This would honestly be the type of show to do an insane reveal like that. I think Tyrell and Elliot being the same person would be really cool IF It was something intended by Sam Esmail and his writers. In the show it just doesn't feel that way whatsoever for so many reasons
Real Elliot is in the image of Tyrell, Tyrell is a creation to carry out what Elliot can’t, Fake Elliot was the show while Tyrell died on the blue screen of death leaving the real Elliot at the end (looking like Tyrell). No actual person in the real world looked like Elliot. That’s my take 😅
They are 💯 the same person. If you don’t understand that then you missed out.
@@blondeguy08 Uhm please elaborate. I'm a huge fan/nerd, redditor, rewatcher, and clues finder for this show, but I don't think that as well. Enlighten me!
@@faccc lookup Mr Robot Ending breakdown by kitchen films. Tyrell is actually the main character/original host while Elliot is the mastermind is his alter ego.
that one episode when they storm the building in one take was incredible
MY FAVORITE EPISODE TOO
It seems like a one take but it has cleverly hidden cuts during transitions. Its pretty seamless and was an insane episode.
wich episode was it again ?
@@seyken3467 season 3 episode 5 iirc
It was excellent but I did kinda annoy myself cause I was trying to focus on where the takes could be seamlessly edited together.
It breaks immersion a bit.
You're right about the Darlene and Elliot connection being the most interesting. It really highlights the duality of two people suffering from trauma, in polar opposite ways. Darlene is the victim that internalizes the anger/hate instead of creating illusions, she is a whole other force of reckoning, but because of this is also more chaotic. Elliot create psychological illusions that keep him in a sort of equilibirum with his trauma, "protecting" him from internal pain. The show illuminates how in both respects, the trauma will seep out and without realizations and change, the seep will gradually become a tidal wave.
Elliot's trauma was a little more intense. Darlene had survivor's guilt and PTSD. Elliot had full on DID/MPD going on. You're right in that the way it has been expressed is due to how different they are in how they deal. Darlene drinks, drugs, and acts out as the lonely extrovert she is. Elliot bottles up his pain and releases it in these blackout sessions.. The show was just so well written, directed, and filmed. It will be an all time favorite for a very very long time.
Incest vibes rubbed me the wrong way lol.
I loved Fight Club as a teenager, but there were a lot of themes in that movie that didn't really resonate with me on a personal level. Not surprising considering that it was a film about the struggles of masculinity in the economic prosperity of the late 1990s, and I was a young woman growing up in the economic shithole of the early 2000s. Mr. Robot hit different because it feels like it was made for my generation and it doesn't feel like it's targeted at any specific gender. I also think Mr. Robot does a better job of critiquing capitalism and corporate American greed, as well as handling topics of mental illness and abuse with more nuance than Fight Club.
Fight club is still a good movie in 2022 replace destruction of banks to destruction of bad habits create a new persona don't over do self help do it in moderation.
@@GE0attack I have no idea what you just said fam
Nowhere near as good as Fight Club
Can’t blame you, the feeling of masculinity can’t be explained but only felt
You should probably read the book Fight Club, but it's basically commentary about "how to be masculine in a de-masculine world, especially if you are gay". This is primarly because the author himself is gay, has an awful relationship with his father, and has been affected by violence. Which explains a lot of his themes in the book. Being a family man makes you less of man. Being a worker bee makes you less of man. Being gay makes you less of man. Loving mom makes you less of man. Basically the whole point of Fight Club is this idea that the only way to legitmatize your gender as a man is to crave it out of something, let it be through your fists into someone else's skull, or schisming yourself to do it. DID, while present in Fight Club, it's more about how far men go to control their manhood rather than control as an illness.
Controlling manhood in the logical extreme sense is quite flawed, as seen in Fight Club with MC and Tyler(I think the main character real name is Sebastion). But I do think all men go through this inner conflict of what is masculine and what is not. And sometimes this negotion is internal and sometimes its not.
The reason the book doesn't speak to women directly is because in a way women as a culture are the antagonist to the characters. Im guessing for women, reading/watching Fight Club is like a peak into masculintiy. Idk. But I do think that Fight Club without masclunity as a cental theme really isn't Fight Club.
Whereas Mr. Robot is basically using DID as a way to talk about control and what kinds of lengths you can mentally go to be establish control. Control is a major theme of masculity, but can be used to discuss mental illiness specifcally as a male, or a person living in modern world.
So while sure, Tyler and Mr. Robot are simular in inseption(ie characters created thorugh DID), Tyler is Control Created Through Manhood whereas Mr. Robot is Control Created By Mental Illness. Both characters are more or less relatable through what identities you are ascribed to.
Another great thing to notice is that whenever Mr Robot and Elliot are in the same frame the other characters only ever look at, acknowledge, one of them. Almost as if the other one can’t exist at the same time.
The ADHD editing holy fuck
This is going to be good! You have a criminally underrated channel mate. So much effort and time clearly put in to the videos I have seen of yours. All the best for the future.
Give this video some react andies [example XQC] and boom views.
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@@Rihardololz their reaction will probably have more views lol
@@anijeepa irrelevant but okay.
Thank you for making a 3 hour long video of my favorite show ever. While I see a lot of praise for the show I still feel like it’s underrated. Hoping it’ll blow up again thanks to this video. Cheers
@my new stepdad non-sexually of course. That'd be gay... And a blessing really lol.
@my new stepdad the Mastermind
Its the kind of show that's good and respected, but should be in a spotlight. It tackles modern themes better than a lot of shows coming out right now.
Sam Esmail and Vince Gilligan changed my gold standard for TV. As a massive Mr. Robot fan, I don’t think I waste a single second watching this two hours video essay.
Ever watch The Wire?
...~3 hours
@@trendybistro The Wire isn't as flashy (which wouldn't serve the subject well anyway) but god damn it is the only show I've seen that gets close enough to glimpse perfection
@@trendybistro My favorite show ever is Mr. Robot, love it, but I wouldn't date to put it there with The Wire. Only Breaking Bad fanboys would do that lmao
@@disco.lemonade and BCS > BrBa anyway.
Sam Esmail, Rami Malek, and Christian Slater are all geniuses in how they directed and produced Mr. Robot. it absolutely ripped off a shit ton of shows, you can tell based on some of the references and shit you find; but, it manages to do so in a way that breathes a new life into it, give it an entirely new form while staying within the story the show wanted to tell. i fucking love it.
One of the things I found the most interesting is how E Corp, is just called plain Evil Corp by the second episode on, even by it's own employees. I always saw that as reality being unreliable to elliot. It's such a nice touch
Edit: Ok sorry he does explain it I watched this season 7 years ago just didn't remember he does, and I don't think he mentions that in the video
I mean Elliot straight up says that he hates the company so much that he has hard-wired his brain to hear Evil corp whenever someone says E-corp. he also mentions jokingly that his therapist would have “a shitfit” if she found out he did that.
No shit
He literally explains that
Yall are right, I didn't remember he explained
I rewatched this show (for like the 3rd or 4th time) recently and was wondering why the hell nobody ever talks about it. Truly one of the best things ever put on TV.
The series finale left a bad taste.
@@cpatch-nh5cs Think the universal consensus is the exact opposite of what you said
@@cpatch-nh5cs That is true, I wasn't too stoked about where it ended up.
@Tesert It's the con-artist of television shows. I can excuse people loving it for its style, some episodes (i.e. cyber bombings), and even some of the acting. I do, too. But the plot itself (after s01) is pseudo-deep, pseudo-intelligent, purposefully convoluted, at times barely coherent, and cheaply told through some the most cliché narratives possible. It's all style, no substance.
I watched Mr.Robot after watching Dark and the difference between the shows (that get compared and recommended by each others' fandom a lot) is staggering.
@@AndiBraun93 is dark any good?
I was obsessed with this show for months. Like literally OBSESSED. It’s all I thought about 24/7. I think I watched it in its entirety 4 times. The way Elliot connects with the audience did crazy things to my mind. Like the show is such a mind fuck I literally could just keep peeling back the layers more and more and more and find more context and meaning and relevancy to our actual reality. It’s pretty funny how my obsession ended actually haha I increased my dose of anti-depressants and suddenly I found myself not so obsessed with tyrell wellick and the rest of the f society crew. Before that happened I went on a deep dive about the business psychopath and needless to say tyrell is scary accurate. Anyway, I still love this show. It’s amazing to see someone come out with a three hour long video essay on it. I wrote an essay about the dichotomy of masculinity in fight club and mentioned mr robot plenty of times in that haha. I’m glad I’m not the only one who still loves this show seven years after it’s release.
I think people can watch this show and not get that into it. Like I actually watched the first two seasons when I was a kid and didn’t relate to Elliot enough yet to get totally hooked. But I think we all have small parts of Elliot within us and that’s what makes us keep watching. We all sorta hate society, hate people, withdraw. It happened to be that this show found me in a time of my life where I was incredibly similar to Elliot in that sense. Anyway, on a lighter note, the way this show portrays hacking is amazing. Although my obsession with mr robot isn’t as strong my interest in hacking because of this show still persists and I am so captivated by the computer science world and the accuracy of it portrayed by this show. Little known fact is that Sam esmail actually had an academic strike against him because he hacked his college haha. I guess it paid off for him in the end.
Dude, same. I started watching this show around a year ago, and it took me a while, maybe three months in total, but because I took my time with each season, I was able to see all the differences in them. When I watched the first season, it inspired me into going more into IT and hacking, but the show also gave me this cozy feeling and I wanted to know more about Elliot and Tyrell, but while watching season 2 I was going through the death of someone important for me, so the show was pretty much the only thing that kept me going, it was like an escape from reality into the weird world inside Elliot's head, then it was the same with seasons 3 and 4... but it's been so much months and a lot has happened in life, I closeted myself in my mind for months, not knowing if I would ever recover, I thought about escaping home multiple times, had anxiety and heart problems, and had a serious case of drug abuse, so now whenever I see Darlene going through a breakdown, or her not being able to cope with death so easily, when I see Elliot talking about how great it feels to be in an aderall overdose until the moment the drugs come off and you can't sleep, or when I see him tricking himself into staying into his solitude life, it's like I get it more and more as time goes on, and as time puts stones in my way, but seeing him surpass all of that, and knowing that the script writers and the director probably went through similar shit and did this show to get to people in similar situations, it helps a damn lot. It truly is a show about mental growth and healing, isn't it?
@@b_delta9725 I'm sorry for your loss...
are you autistic no offense
the words "he is literally me" have come out of my mouth multiple times when watching this show despite being the complete opposite of what elliot is. i love rami
I know I'm late to say this but Mr. Robot inspired me to become a Final year cybersecurity student. All I can say is that Mr. Robot not only changed my perspective on mental health but also gave me a purpose to Real World hacking. I hope all of you find your inner purpose and fight your inner demons like Elliot himself. He is just like all of us despite our differences in our "inner demons".
I never forget Mr robot in my life !!
If you have the chance please end our debt man
@@pabloruiz821@Yiisu, pin my command. I've just finished my studies and now work as a cybersecurity engineer, just like Elliot in 'Mr. Robot.' It's amazing how a TV show changed my life. I'm excited to share my journey and insights into cybersecurity!
How’s it going?
2:37:29 I think, Elliot here is screaming for Mr. Robot, not Tyrell.
1:53:08 Darlene saw the dude’s diploma and correctly guessed the year as the passcode. If I remember correctly, she had tried his birth year first. I have successfully used this trick myself as most 4 digit PIN concentrate around years (19xx - 20xx) as most people are poor at generating randomness. Don’t hack the lock. Hack the human.
As someone who absolutely adores Mr Robot, I'm grateful for this analysis, though personally I wouldn't call it a rip-off rather, it be a masterpiece, inspired by masterpieces.
And all great art is born of theft and inspiration
You don't know how long I've been waiting for more long form analyses on this show. It's got a decent following now, but it still doesn't have even a fraction of the attention it deserves
I would love to see this for all the seasons. Frankly the lack of Mr. Robot videos on RUclips is a curse. Its a pure masterpiece when it comes to a singular vision, every small event in the earlier seasons just gets sooo much better with revelations further down. 🙌🏽🙌🏽
This is literally STILL the case. Where are the major video essay channels on Mr. Robot?
Noooo, at the car park, in Tyrell’s car, Elliot isn’t screaming for Tyrell to come out, but rather Mr Robot. He finally uses the phone in the coffee shop to call 911 to lure him out of hiding. Great vid though, really like the shot composition breakdown ❤
Bro you got to calm down your editing. I feel like this video is in manic mode the entire time. I can barely watch the video despite enjoying your ability to convey information.
He eases into it I wouldn’t have been able to sit through the whole vid that mode but it goes from 110% to 10%. It’s not even that it’s not funny, I will agree it’s heavy handed. This seems like a new channel and it’s cool to see somebody stretch like this and it’s way better than it is at all bad. I opted this instead of rewatching the show and as I’m at the end of it I think he did great.
The scene with Bill actually broke my heart in real time, like god damn
Holy crap. A VIDEO ESSAY on a show I thought NO ONE was talking about, THANK YOU THANK YOU. IT WAS SO GOOD I WAS SHOCKED
Seriously. A show as good as this not having a well produced video essay was weird.
I watched it for the first time couple months ago and it absolutely shocked me how well done it was. Not only is it well written but as someone who appreciates cinematography the shows style is absolutely brilliant.
I feel like the video has interesting points, but I can't really watch this style of editing, with overblown audio bites. It's not for me.
The scene with Angela during Elliot’s withdrawal is almost exactly the same as in the last episode when she says “you’re not Elliot, you’re the Mastermind” and the monster they kept talking about is his dad, the “do you even know what it is?” Line IMO makes that very apparent and maybe facing his trauma and accepting it is necessary for Elliot to regain total control. It seems to me that Mr Robot’s goal from the beginning was to get Mastermind to free Elliot but for some reason they couldn’t just tell him what was happening because the shock might just make everything worse so he figured his best bet was to help Mastermind accomplish the goal that he was created for, which is why Mr Robot is so insistent on continuing with the plan in the first few seasons but by season 4 he’s realizing that it’s a never ending cycle.
this was honestly a really nice deep-dive/summary of season 1, it's nice finding more recent videos on "mr. robot", it's easily my favorite show of all time. though, for the sake of anyone reading the comments, all of the flashbacks we see in the show (circa '95) are all real moments concerning elliot's father. elliot even makes a reference to 'pulp fiction', the movie he saw with his father as a child, when speaking with angela ("i think i'm pretty fucking far from okay") interestingly enough, something i've noticed upon rewatch is mr. robot is seen smoking, edward alderson is not (he's usually heard having a dry cough, as a result of his leukemia). i think it's one of the few things to help differentiate the two. i really hope this video, despite its spoilers, helps people discover this series because it's amazing.
"summary" the video is as long as the whole season
@@edinjahja7193 no it is not
@@ewetwentythree its a joke but 3hr videos is crazy
holy crap. i thought you had at least 1m subs and was thinking “this guy is underrated” only to see you only had 1k. this is… phenomenal. if i was asked to pick my favorite youtube video, i would say this 100%. I’ve never watched this show, but i know the plot now and the way you found every detail is amazing. great job.
It's a show my guy. How the fuck would you fit it all into a movie.
how did you watch this and not realise that it's a show
@@pseudonymousbeing987 i meant show. why the hell does it matter that much to you.
You should definitely watch it. It's great
Well, he got 10k subs in a week. So he's totally shooting up there.
When you mentioned “do people eat out at 3:00AM?” I wonder if that’s a reference to the random timeskipping that is brushed over. He’s called in because of a Hack by Mr.Robot. So maybe he just took multiple hours to go home from observing their date and didn’t think about it because he was being driven by Mr.Robot?
i watched till the end and was like "that was a really good series" and then heard "that was only season one"
This was great. If you made one for each season I’d watch them all.
Hey, this video was fucking fantastic, just letting you know. Watched the whole thing, it was long as BALLS but hey, as background noise there's never been anything as high quality, keep it up!
Bro isnt this edit too much? Every crazy thing that happens I lose all focus.
This is the benefit of story boarding everything out before filming. It creates inherent rewatchability, right after finishing the show I started it over again because I wanted to see how well they stuck to the ending throughout the show and hardly an episode goes by that doesn’t reference the truth of what is actually happening. Even the whole thing in season 2 with him being in prison, once you know what’s happening you can see the nature of the prison environment bleeding through into his delusion and honesty makes a lot more sense, I was really confused about the whole thing where he got kidnapped and held in the basement but it makes so much more sense when they reveal that the dude is a warden and that whole episode Elliot was in solitary confinement.
2:37:28
No, I'm almost certain he's calling for Mr.Robot, not Tyrell. who has been absent and only working outside of Elliot's knowledge. Making Elliot desperate for answers that only Mr.Robot can currently provide. This is made more clear later on when he resorts to self-sabotage in order to further force a conversation with Mr.Robot
I watched Mr robot literally like 2 months ago and it's my favourite show of all time. this video is amazing 👏 I hope you do the rest of the seasons especially season 4
Fantastic video. RUclips recommended it as I had never seen your videos prior. The meme editing at the start was a bit tiresome and chaotic but it was nice to revisit one of my all time favorite shows.
Great work!
why are so many retrospective videos edited like this now days? It feels deliberately pandering to the modern ADD-loaded generation. It's incredibly distracting to the subject of the video, and downright obnoxious.
Started this at midnight as a chill thing to watch as I fall asleep. Now it’s 3 am and I’m hooked. While I can do well without all the adhd cut ins, you did a great job.
I had a bit of whiplash seeing the youtube-poop style opening to a surprisingly in depth analysis of characters, themes, and score. Well done.
Omg finally, a long deep-dive analysis for Mr. Robot on YT! It's hard to find any videos studying this show.
Did anyone else find this video painful to watch? I don't mind that hyperactive "lol ironic meme" editing style but jesus, the amount of sounds cutting in while he was talking drove me nuts within like 2 minutes
I love this show, the cast, and the fans so much everything is just perfect and relatable, the show also shows the reality of the world of how people can be doing some shady stuff that you can’t trust in the internet, and the reality of capitalism and big corporations hiding they’re evilness in the world, this was not just a show it was an experience.
One of the best videos I’ve seen on the show, you did a good job at analyzing so many aspects of this show that I love while also making me appreciate certain aspects more like the nuances of the cinematography. Looking forward to seeing more of your content. :)
I actually watched this show as a 16 yo just 6 months ago. My father said I wasn't allowed to watch, which made sense, but I decided to watch it anyway. By far the greatest show I have ever seen, and I personally actually don't think I want to find a show that would be better. The themes and ideas that it taught, while also showing the opposite end of the spectrum, showing the good and bad of everything, was so nice and refreshing.
Such a well written show!! The Christmas therapy episode fucking shattered me into a million pieces as well as Eliot
How are u 16 and unable to do what u want😂
Imagine telling your 16 year old child they can't watch something😂
Such a weird thing to tell your 16yo not to watch sth, especially Mr.Robot. It's just stupid.
Depending on where your from and if you could relate id suggest a classic like the wire or even snowfall. If you like believable mafia stories, id suggest another classic like the sopranos, or even a new show tusla king. If you want to watch a medical show but not interested in the corny rom coms like greys anatomy i would suggest House M.D, great show with characters you become invested in, and even after many seasons it doesnt get stale, also it has a great ending. All the shows I mentioned have great plots and characters that will have you invested, and have great endings. I hope this helped
I’m so happy that this show finally has coverage. I’ve tuned in on it way back in 2015, and while season 1 was definitely like fight club, the other seasons really show how reality would’ve responded to such a disaster. It went into the consequences of economic collapse. It also focuses a lot on Elliot’s trauma and his experiences. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a beautifully shot show that isn’t afraid to change styles.
Each season felt different in color and pacing.
This format of editing should be the modern standard for long format comedic deep dives into entertainment. Haven't passed the 5 minute mark and the amount of effort has to be commended, subbed and liked.
Yo, I have never - up to this point - did the whole "subscribe, like, ring that bell" routine even for creators I follow often. I broke that streak today because of this video. This is genuinely great content. I understand it must have been an exhausting process to produce a close to three hour video, but I look forward to any additional analysis breakdowns you do. Again, outstanding work!
The best part of Mr. Robot is that its main message isn't that "corporations are bad" or "socialism is the answer to society's ills", but that family is the most important thing in your life.
Also the best brother and sister dynamic I've enjoyed in a form of entertainment.
Yeah either elliot and Darlene or Dexter and Debra would be my favorite
I love Mr. Robot, but tbh this is the worst part of the show. Esmail is a milquetoast liberal IRL, so it's not very surprising--though he didn't really shoehorn in some super anti-radical narrative as I often feared be was about to do. I'm ultimately pretty okay with the fact that he made the show more personal, and you can very much read Elliot's opposition to unjust power as moving and legitimate given his family experience with it, but the anti-capitalist veneer and the generational relatability are a big part of what drew me to the show, and it's kind of a disappointment and a pity that Esmail chose to conclude with the implication that, "like, those aren't the things that actually really matter, right?", despite all the evidence to the contrary--evidence he seems to be very well aware of.
when i started this video i didn't think i'd watch the whole thing, but holy shit i can only image the amount of time that went into this. well done!
Same, I thought I would watch 10-20minutes, but I ended up watching it all in a single sitting.
The Omori music fits surprisingly well, though it's a little odd to put final duet only 30 mins in
The most annoying editing, random loud sound every 10 seconds gets old the first 2000 times
cool vid!
Wow.. I don't think I would've ever seen a 3hr essay on Mr. Robot S1 but this is amazing!
Halfway through, and this is quite possibly the best written, most entertaining and most eloquently put-together video essay on Mr. Robot. I’d love to see you do one on another underrated TV show such as this one.
Watched s1 when it came out, right after a fightclub phase, so i caught on pretty quickly and spoiled everything for my parents. It remains as my alltime favorite and goddamnit most underrated show. I would even go as far as to say this was one of the main reasons i went on to go to college to study just about everything in the film industry.
Loved the excessive deepdive into every episodes and even though i have seen the show several times myself you were still able to point out things i hadnt thought about before! Thats when you know you got good shit.
Please do continue this series breakdown if you’re feeling it, man! This was fantastic.
what is the song you used when Darlene revealed to Elliot that she is his sister?
I thoroughly enjoyed watching all 3 hours of this video. This show is so special to me and you nailed the summary for S1. I'd love to get another video like this for S2. Subscribed and looking forward to more content like this.
Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort that must've been needed to make this video!
Agreed! Any chance of further analysis yiisu?
Not going to lie this long vid turned out to be pretty good with what the plot of the show is, the characters on what they're going through and overall, a great review on this show. Great video man, earned a sub and hopefully a season 2 review video comes out
To be honest I couldn’t spend over 2 hours on a video but great job, the quality of your script and editing is amazing
Hey buddy as a guy in the industry. What boomers use is firefox. for some reason i think it makes them feel techy cause its not a default browser. But yeah i laughed at the facebook dig. i literally have one just so i can keep tabs on people cause im not very social.
Yeah man, really wanted to give this video a try but the editing is so fucking obnoxious
Upon watching it at first it just seems like a show about a hacker living in a complex distopya where it seems identical to our world yet eerily strange where the whole world seems depressed and dull. However after progressing with the show hacking becomes a component of it and not the actual focus.
It’s centered around the human mind. Not only about Elliot but about other characters in the show. It shows an array of diffrent people and their dark sides they seems to hide despite portraying diffrent personas to the general public.
Overall a great show 10/10 no doubt it may seem a little boring as first but as the show advances it gets so much better.
I love your style of video, genuinely delivering on your topic while adding shitpost memes in the process, like Pyrocynical but less inside jokes, i love it.
Seriously, your commentary is good, but if you are gonna throw memes to spice it up just mute them, otherwise it kind of overshadows your voice
Good vid BTW, nothing better than a 2 hour essay on whatever. Really the best genre in RUclips
god, this editing is such a headache
Sam Esmail didn't ripped off Fight Club, he evolved it.
This.
This channel is super good, I really hope you can see growth soon. These videos clearly take a lot of time to make and are really enjoyable
incredible video mane! the balance between humor, exposition and lore is very refreshing especially after watching the show in its entirety atleast twice. wishing you all the support you deserve bro. 10/10 vid
Ripoff is a strong term, its clearly influenced by Fight Club, but it also draws from several other sources and is a lot more nuanced than Fight Club, which you do touch on in this video, I just want to save someone the 3 hours.
The title is like that to attract a potential viewer, so don't think too much about it.
I swear I'm trying to pay attention to your analysis but it is really hard with the PTSD the Omori soundtrack is giving me
Amazing video. Amazing show. Anyone got a list of the music used?
Wow, you've really done a great job taking apart this series
I mean, the way you talk about the camera work, the score in each scene, the characters, I feel like I'm there with them
I would love to watch a video essay you might make on the second season
That was a banger of a video. Great editing, dude. It honestly flew by in a flash, and has got me craving more. Tbh probably gonna binge the rest of your vids because you've got some great quality
Bro I hope you could continue this throughout the whole series especially season 4 or the season 2 with Leon.
Goofy ahh editing 💀
I always saw mr robot as some strange form of a “greatest hits” album, it’s like a collection of all of the best scenes ever filmed plus this really nuanced and beautiful story about reconciling with trauma and a world that has taken everything you love away.
Dude, this must have taken so long to edit. Great channel btw, if you stay consistent, I can see this channel blowing up for sure.
Watched the whole thing start to finish and this was a really good breakdown video. Obviously reminds me of a *cough* _certain_ video, but still really well done and I look forward to the next. ☺
I first watched this show at Florida State Hospital and was floored by it beyond comprehension bc it was the first time I saw someone using Kali Linux on cable TV... Thank you so much USA for hosting this show bc mental hospitals suck ass and this show meant the world 🌎 to me 😚👍
Your editing was way too much at the start, but got way better near the end
Angela is a really interesting character. I cheered for her. I can empathize her feelings for revenge. She didn't just hired some lawyer. She made an alliance with a worse enemy which finally cost her mental health. Rumors say she only died because the actress had to leave the series. Non the less she always stole the scene, just like her father. His presence was hipnotizing too.
I commend you for being able to continously utilize memes for the entire 2 hours of the video. 😂
Never been more proud to say I've thought it was an insane show back in 2015, happy to see I was probably right :3
Just finished the video, WE NEED ANOTHER VIDEO WITH SEASON 2 IF NOT THE REST OF THE SHOW, This was amazing to watch from start to finish, you've definitely earned another subscriber!
minor correction at 1:57:28 Elliot hacks into Angela’s email, not Ollie. the spam is from Ollie
There is so many great and funny moments in this video it pains me that I can’t list them all
2 hours and 40 minutes jeez treating us well 😄
This is a very amazing video
I don't usually write comments, but I have to point this out since you're a new creator
The volume of the zoomer edits is very high compared to your voice, this caused me a literal headache, please consider the dynamic range of your audio next time.
If you can I would absolutely love to hear your review of the rest of the series.