kpowers said:

RodeoSchro said:

I never watched "MacGyver". I guess I can put "MacGyver" and "Burn Notice" on my LOTTIHNWROLTBHIRFATIMLTIEGBOSHALOFTOMH list!

Don't tell Patty and Selma that

I did actually pay for four tickets to the horrible "MacGruver" movie. And I watched it, too. Does that count?

RodeoSchro said:

kpowers said:

Don't tell Patty and Selma that

I did actually pay for four tickets to the horrible "MacGruver" movie. And I watched it, too. Does that count?

It is so fucked up and is amazing... can't wait for the second season

Kobe said:

It is so fucked up and is amazing... can't wait for the second season

The second season is even more fascinating and intriguing. Never know what's going to happen next, never quite sure who's after what and what part they play.

Some critics are whining that the episodes are too long and that it isn't as good as season one.

I question if these people ever really liked the show to begin with.

Give me two-hour episodes!

I get the feeling that some never watched it, that is until all the hype for the new season.

Then they binged the first season (of which I'm not a fan of; binging) and went right into season 2 with the assumption that it's all that different.

It reminds me of Arrested Developments return. I was nervous when I read all the criticism about the latest season, that is until I finally watched it. It was as funny as ever and not really that different from standard AD. I blame bandwagoners.

CynicKill said:

Some critics are whining that the episodes are too long and that it isn't as good as season one.

I question if these people ever really liked the show to begin with.

Give me two-hour episodes!

I get the feeling that some never watched it, that is until all the hype for the new season.

Then they binged the first season (of which I'm not a fan of; binging) and went right into season 2 with the assumption that it's all that different.

It reminds me of Arrested Developments return. I was nervous when I read all the criticism about the latest season, that is until I finally watched it. It was as funny as ever and not really that different from standard AD. I blame bandwagoners.

just wait for the reveal about where everyone is right now

I'm liking the first half of the second season more than the second half of the first.

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Mr. Robot could be an object lesson in transmedia. Yes, there are Mr. Robot emojis and GIFS and favorite quotes. Sure, there are easter eggs. The show's site is a great resource; you can find "footage" of the aftermath of the hack plus references to Deflategate and Bernie Madoff. You can watch the film referenced in Season 2, The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie. There's a virtual reality scene (not shown in the actual show) with an extended flashback that you can experience in 360 degrees. There's a Mr. Robot puzzle game.

Within the show, you'll find references to old hacker movies and QR codes (the one Elliot draws leads here, to a page called "Confictura Industries" designed for Netscape).

But there's a WHOLE lot more: The show explicitly invites viewers to "hack" along with the characters. You can, for example, reproduce the commands Darlene dictated to Angela in this week's episode (which, among other things, yields a recipe for a gross-sounding drink ominously called a Backfire. If you want to try this, type in "cd bin" and then "./EnableAttack femtopwn WLAN0,WLAN1 2").

If you visit www.whoismrrobot.com right now, it's configured to echo that '90s feel via those familiar dial-up sounds — and Telnet and ALF wallpaper. And you can go deeper: If you click on "My Briefcase" on the "desktop," you'll find articles documenting the arcade's violent past (including an obituary for a Mary Meghan Fisher). You can access Romero's list of FBI agents, which apparently got him killed.

And that's not all! These aren't just cute archives. If, for example, you read the "README.txt" file on the desktop, you'll learn enough basic programming lingo to list the directory contents in telnet and (among other things) play a game of Snake. If you want to explore further, try opening telnet and typing in "ls recycle bin", then "open ch347c0d35" to see a kernel panic log (a reference to the third episode this season).

If you keep your eyes peeled for IP addresses (they pop up in the unlikeliest places, like freeway signs), the might lead you to a BBS called TV TODAY where you can type in commands to see ANSI art of ALF or Bart Simpson and read bulletin boards about Doogie Howser, The Simpsons, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full House, Step by Step, Head of the Class, Dear John, and The Cosby Show. If you want to see some other things in the BBS, try typing in the following commands: A P B P A P B. One of the images there is on Angela's desk in the episode. And hey: if you want to look up what "MARBLECAKE" means, that's up to you.

(Screenshot/USA Network/Mr. Robot)

If you click here, you'll see some very pretty images — the first set of which possibly correspond to chess pieces, perhaps referencing the mythic chess game between Mr. Robot and Elliot. (The butterfly is Lebadea martha, also knows as the Knight, and the other images correspond to rook, pawn, and possibly king. What the second set of images corresponds to is anyone's guess.)

Then again, if you look at the text, it sounds more like Whit3ros3's obsession with time. It reads: "As each second passes, I push myself to keep moving." In other words, we don't even know whose images we're decoding. Who is "friend"?

(Screenshot/USA Network/Mr. Robot)

I really hope Mr. Robot ends in a way that justifies this rich extra-televisual architecture; I hope it rewards every invitation to sleuthing and that all this — the sitcom, the IP addresses, the blurring of ads and show, the references, the QR codes — adds up to something. Because it's fun, but it's fun because we trust there's a puppet-master rendering this open world meaningful and worth decoding. (Unlike True Detective, which turned out not to have one; it was all broken strings.) So much depends, as William Carlos Williams says, on a red wheelbarrow."