Well, I had my friend over tonight and we watched the series finale two-parter of Mr. Robot.
After just over a year of watching this together, first while living together near school, and since then remotely thanks to Amazon streaming, it is now fully complete (and I’ve finished my… third? watch of the entire series)
I think she liked it? She definitely got her mind super blown, as its quite the setup and bombshell for the final major twist in the series.
I remember the big moments but wow yeah that finale is A LOT to take in.
Super duper spoilers here.
Watch out.
For an entire episode setting it up, it’s a potential full sci-fi tilt into a utopian alternate universe, a world without pain for Elliot, a world where there are now two Elliots, but MM Elliot kills the other one… but in the next EP, not really… as Mr Robot reveals that its all a sham and him trying to get Elliot to realise its not real, he’s not real… and after a lengthy explanation of the alters, MM Elliot refuses to give up control, seeing Darlene one last time, before giving in and letting go…
I can see how its a lot to process, with question after question being put down, only to rip them all up in the next episode with the big reveal of it all, that not only changes the episode you’ve just seen, but the entire series as a whole, one final time.
I still really liked it, as I had all the pieces so I could pick up on the hints and references it was building up to. But it really is quite the rollercoaster of an ending, especially since the rest of the series was a bit more of a grounded, dramatic techno-thriller built upon exploration of mental illness.
Soundtrack this season is also super great.
