Warning: Spoilers for the latest episode of Mr. Robot - "eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12"
After last week's freaky reveal that Elliot had, in reality, been incarcerated for all of Season 2 thus far, it was very nice to get out of our hero's warped headspace, where layers upon layers of mental shields and trickery have made for a somewhat convoluted second season.
"eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12" focused almost solely on the struggling, paranoid (for good reason) members of fsociety and how there's a strong possibility that they were used as disposable pawns some nefarious "second stage" plan that's about to be enacted by the Dark Army - the one Whiterose mentioned back in "eps2.2init1.asec."
Elliot and Mr. Robot are the flashy gimmick of the series, and their push/pull dynamic has made for great TV, but it was time to really hone in on the real and true aftermath of 5/9 - a story that's take a bit of a backseat to Elliot's madcap mental maladies this summer.
Carly Chaikin as Darlene on Mr. Robot.
While Elliot remains tucked away safely in prison -- well, safe from the FBI and Dark Army anyhow -- the rest of his team are floundering under both the watchful eye of the feds and the demented secret schemes of Whiterose's hacker mercenaries. This is, ultimately, what needs to draw Elliot back in the game and back into a leadership role. That's why "eps2.6_succ3ss0r.p12" was so critical.
Sure, it had some moments of clunky on-the-nose dialogue, and Angela singing "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" kind of made me cringe (though Portia Doubleday's voice was nice), but this chapter dispensed with the mind games and ramped up the thriller aspects of the show. No, we're not done learning about Elliot's time in jail, and how Ray actually fit into things from a reality standpoint, but this season really needed to narrow its focus a bit, leave Elliot's embattled brain behind, and figure out how the E Corp hack really fits into everything.
Plus, Darlene had some superb and twisted moments this week. Possibly over her head with regards to all the walls currently losing in around her, she's done her best to keep Mr. Robot's dream afloat. And her killing of Sandrine Holt's Susan Jacobs basically showed us that there's a lot we still don't know about her, as Elliot's sister and someone who's clearly grown up with her own share of pain.
This week she proved herself to be capable and menacing (she even managed to turn the tables on a backstabbing Cisco) right at the end, but the predicament she, Mobley, and Trenton currently find themselves in is just begging for someone as cool and complicated as Elliot to come in and save them. Not that he has a cure-all, but the Mr. Robot side of his personality has already proven to be paternally protective.
Hell, I could even go another week without Elliot.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/2aJ67FB.
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