Internal fatal error.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Note: With Comic-Con in full bloom, I'm pressed for time and am going to keep this review on the short side.
Elliot got way more aggressive in his efforts to cleanse his brain of Mr. Robot this week in "eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd," an episode that aggressively moved the Season 2 story forward by answering some key questions about Craig Robinson's Ray.
Ray, a man whose shady bitcoin business took a hit after the hack, is now looking for someone to help him get his enterprise back up and running. And, by the end, while likening the loss of his own wife and his daily ritual of speaking to no one as a way to connect to Elliot, a new partnership was formed. It's a move that believably got Elliot back in the game while also putting him more at ease with his own inner turmoil. You know, so that we can break free of this initial seasonal struggle and get Elliot out of his rut.
Because once you go six days with no sleep and transform into a human malfunctioning glitch -- during an awesome and eerily peppy sequence, by the way -- you've pretty much exhausted (literately) your one and only option for peace of mind. Because the Mr. Robot side of Elliot's brain was so desperate and savage that it faked a mental kidnapping (using Philip Glass' amazing sore from Mishima - my favorite movie score!) to get him to throw up. And given that, you have to realize you're dealing with a savage and severe subconscious. I mean, that was so damn dastardly. But - hell - at least Elliot fought back and still tried to win this one.
Meanwhile, Mobley found Romero dead and there's now a mystery afoot involving the possible clean-up of fsociety and the roping in of Grace Gummer's Dom DiPierro. And, like the texturing and further exploration of the Ray character, I also really enjoyed the sharper focus on Dom's severe social anxiety and insomnia. This show's able to do a lot more with silence than most shows can with pages of dialogue. Plus, with Elliot's narration usually going full blast -- with him mentioning us, the viewers, even more now -- it works to have other characters sit in silence.
I liked this third episode more than the two startup episodes from last week as it delivered more shape to the season by delivering Elliot's eventual surrender to his condition in an earned fashion while also deepening the rabbit hole Angela's currently plummeting down with regards to E Corp and Phillip Price. She now has the opportunity to exact revenge on two of the men responsible for the poisoning of her hometown, but it's coming to her in a "come to the dark side" fashion as part of Price's seduction. He's offering her a way to feel better, but also apprenticing her in the art of making human decisions devoid of emotion and that's really intriguing.
The Verdict
We certainly learned a lot this week - about new characters, new alliances, and old arcades - and Elliot's mental collapse due to adderall abuse made for some killer, stylized TV.
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