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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-price-is-right-emily-nussbaum
During this summer of industry chaos, one TV show did make a pungent case against consumerism: “Mr. Robot,” on USA Network. A dystopian thriller with Occupy-inflected politics, the series was refreshing, both for its melancholy beauty and for its unusually direct attack on corporate manipulation. “Mr. Robot” was the creation of a TV newcomer, Sam Esmail, who found himself in an odd position: his anti-branding show was itself rebranding an aggressively corporate network, known for its “blue sky” procedurals—a division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
Nussbaum is one of the sharper TV critics out there. I find it almost unbelievable that she can't see how silly that paragraph is.
Weiner had spent the Television Critics Association convention talking up “Mr. Robot” and he told me that he was “stunned” by Esmail’s show, which he called American TV’s “first truly contemporary anti-corporate message.”
lol
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Mr. Robot is fucking bad by WITTGENSTEIN 10/13/2015, 8:17pm PDT
I figured it was terrible by skip 10/13/2015, 10:51pm PDT
Oh my god I'm glad I stopped watching by WITTGENSTEIN 10/14/2015, 7:41am PDT
Literally everyone else says the opposite. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/14/2015, 8:11am PDT
Did literally everyone else watch it? by WITTGENSTEIN 10/14/2015, 9:35am PDT
Correction: Lunix CTO uses KDE, says he prefers it to GNOME by WITTGENSTEIN 10/14/2015, 9:47am PDT
The show goes from bad to worse (spoilers, though who cares) by WITTGENSTEIN 10/14/2015, 10:04am PDT
The creator explained that by Vested Id 10/14/2015, 2:54pm PDT
Also note the Battlestar Galactica font by Vested Id 10/14/2015, 2:56pm PDT
Ah, so that's why it felt so dated by cause it's straight up pastiche 10/17/2015, 5:43pm PDT
This show still sucks NT by Mysterio 08/18/2016, 8:10am PDT
Big shocker, I think it's the best thing on TV. NT by pinback 08/19/2016, 2:51pm PDT
Hmm, I think you might not be NT by a big fan of this. 10/14/2015, 2:57pm PDT
The fact that you heard that song and thought "RIPOFFFF!!!" means you don't unde NT by rstand anything and you never will. 08/19/2016, 4:39pm PDT
Nobody understands Mr. Robot at the moment NT by Because it's a mess. 08/19/2016, 6:15pm PDT
It's always been a mess. So the point is... by pinback 08/20/2016, 6:24am PDT
Jesus fuck. by The Happiness Engine 08/24/2016, 3:38pm PDT
Re: Jesus fuck. by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/25/2016, 6:58am PDT
Well, no by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/14/2015, 10:24am PDT
Re: Mr. Robot is fucking bad by Roop 11/18/2019, 10:37pm PST
Re: Mr. Robot is fucking bad by Mr. 3000 11/20/2019, 5:53am PST
Re: Mr. Robot is fucking bad by Roop 12/03/2019, 10:36am PST
This guy was a bad take assembly line. Wrong about everything. by i_hate_goons.vbs 06/29/2022, 2:00pm PDT
My favorite soda is the one where you combine every flavor from the soda fountai NT by Fans of Mr. Robot 06/29/2022, 3:03pm PDT
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