Anyone watching “Mr. Robot”?

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by smacktoward • 11 years ago

17 24 11 years ago

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Any other HNers out there watching USA Network's new hacker-themed drama series "Mr. Robot"?

http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot

If so, what do you think? I've been enjoying it so far -- so much in fact that I feel like it might be cool to have a weekly thread here to discuss new episodes, if there's enough others watching to make such a thread worthwhile...

smacktoward• 11 years ago

Note: submitter here. I have no affiliation with either the show or the network. (There's contact info for me in my profile if you wish to validate this.) I'm just digging it and thought other HNers might be digging it too.

byg802• 11 years ago

Just watched the first episode yesterday. Really good so far and looking forward to it for sure!

angersock2• 11 years ago

A weekly thread to discuss a TV show?

On Hacker News?

For fuck's sake, people.

byg802• 11 years ago

It's a relevant (and GOOD) TV show that many people here (coders/hackers) can relate to. What's wrong with that?

angersock2• 11 years ago

There're any number of other sites that are good for this: reddit, 4chan /tv/, dozens of others.

Maybe we should be using Hacker News to, I don't know, show off cool hacks and build projects, instead of living vicariously through stereotypes on TV?

avinassh• 11 years ago

I have been it watching it since the first episode when it was launched and I am totally hooked to the show. Some of the tech/jargon they mention are highly accurate and I really enjoy that. The last episode even had Raspberry Pi and also Python [0]. Pretty cool!

[0] http://i.imgur.com/cGN3FQw.jpg

permanulled• 11 years ago

running as root :x

iokanuon• 11 years ago

I like that on the remote server he prefixes commands with a space so they won't get saved in the history file.

nudpiedo• 11 years ago

Am I the only one who tried if the IP is online?

coppolaemilio• 11 years ago

I liked it, but it is getting worse every week. It started very cool but then everything is downhill... Hope they recover the spirit

straik• 11 years ago

I stumbled over it last week. Being in Germany I prever legal ways to watch it and ended up on Amazon. After watching the first episode I was so hooked that I bought all 4 available Episodes and had a long night. Now I am waiting for the 5th to show up but Amazon does not give a hint when it will be availabe.

"He´s too old for a long password. I must be missing something."

I love it.

swanson• 11 years ago

Haven't checked it out yet, but it's getting good reviews so I will at some point.

"Halt and Catch Fire" is another great show currently airing that HN crowd would probably enjoy. It's a period piece set in Texas during mid 1980 personal computer revolution. Pretty accurate on the technical level and has top notch actors/production.

tptacek2• 11 years ago

My friends in the industry seem to like it a lot, but I couldn't make it through the first episode. It's like the sterile hybrid of BBC Sherlock and Fight Club, with the computer plotline of the movie Hackers and DDOS substituted for Gibsons.

If you're watching Mr. Robot now and haven't watched at least the first two seasons of BBC Sherlock, stop what you're doing and switch shows.

Halt and Catch Fire was, I thought, a lot better than some of the reviews I'd read.

Tomte3• 11 years ago

I've only watched the pilot of Sherlock and found it so-so. Is the rest comparable?

I got sucked into Elementary a bit (Lucy Liu is very good, didn't expect that), but decided after half a season, it's not that great to justify the investment of time.

tptacek2• 11 years ago

Sherlock isn't perfect. But: apart from (to my ears painful) tech jargon, everything good about Mr. Robot is done better by Sherlock. Sherlock also does a bunch of stuff that Mr. Robot doesn't --- it's not humorless, the dialog has a point and isn't just the narrator from Pi (seen Pi? Watch Pi before Mr Robot!), there are multiple dimensions of conflict and they work differently (Mycroft/Sherlock, Moriarty/Sherlock, Watson/Sherlock, &c).

Sherlock is no The Wire, but Mr. Robot makes it look like that sometimes.

(Caveat: I'm now only 2 eps in, but OTOH: consensus seems to be that Mr. Robot gets worse, not better).

kilimchoi• 11 years ago

I loved the first episode but the rest were just meh.

warmfuzzykitten• 11 years ago

Mr. Robot showed promise in the first episode, until he got near a computer. Then it became ridiculous.

phibz• 11 years ago

spoiler Mr. Robot is Elliot

Anyone watching “Mr. Robot”?

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