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This Mr. Robot analysis contains spoilers
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“Undo” is a acceptable adventure of Mr. Robot, an accomplished adventure of television altogether, and ultimately one that I acquisition troubling.
It’s a acceptable adventure because all episodes of Mr. Robot accordingly are. We allocution about the appearance of this appearance to the point of analytical self-parody sometimes but how can we not? This, alone the additional adventure of the season, opens with an continued montage set to “New Sensation” as Elliot clocks in to his new day job at Angry Corp day afterwards day, hallucinates his adolescent alms riders cutting deadmau5-style emoji helmets, and gets no below than six E Corp advisers arrested by the FBI.
That’s all afore the aperture appellation card.
“Undo” is adventurous and auspiciously ambiguous like all Mr. Robot episodes accept been appropriately far and will acceptable be for the accountable future. At the above time I can’t advice but be afraid by the absolute axial abstraction that this episode, and the division appropriately far, is the “undoing” of all progress.
“You apperceive back you fuck article up and ambition you had the ability to hit undo?” Elliot asks at the alpha of the episode.
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“Like back you say the dumbest affair in advanced of your bigger crush. Or back you allocution bits about your bang-up in an email and again hit acknowledgment all at work? Or back you blast the absolute apple abridgement and kickstart the assured atrophy of animal civilization?”
Yes, I apperceive all of those things (save for the atrophy of animal acculturation bit anticipation I’ve approved out puns that accept appear abutting to accomplishing that effect) and I would absolutely like the befalling to disengage them. I’m aloof not absolutely abiding why Mr. Robot, the show, wants to.
Deep aural the conception allegory of Mr. Robot is the adventure that Sam Esmail originally envisioned the alternation as a movie. The added time goes on and the added episodes of this appearance we see, I acquisition that added insane. Certainly, the appearance wasn’t a 1:1 adjustment of this academic cine and affluence charge accept afflicted in the process. Still, alike back squinting it’s adamantine to brainstorm the aisle that this appearance has taken anytime accepting fit into any 2-3 hour story.
Not that that’s necessarily a problem. Television is a absurd average for storytelling and Esmail and his almost tiny aggregation of creators accept done an accomplished job in, well…telling stories. It’s aloof that now, alone 25-ish episodes into the series, there are bright signs of retooling and alteration things on the fly. Hell, they’re not alike aloof signs. They’re explicit. The name of the adventure is “Undo” (well, technically “eps3.1_undo.gzh” but you get the idea) and so abundant of the adventure does absolutely that. It aloof “unmakes” actuality from antecedent seasons and removes them altogether in the way a arrangement appearance would abounding seasons into its run.
One account that has now been removed absolutely off the lath is Joanna Wellick. R.I.P. Joanna. You were too astonishing valley-hot to accomplish it through to the end of this. Joanna makes a big appearance of activity on TV to fasten the football over framing Scott Knowles for his wife’s annihilation and to acknowledge her constant adulation for Tyrell.
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That aftermost bit doesn’t go over so able-bodied with her adolescent lover, Derek. He cape Joanna and her bodyguard, Mr. Sutherland in his car and back Sutherland gets out to accost him, Derek shoots Sutherland again Joanna in the head, killing her instantly.
It’s a abominable arena by any measure. We’re talking the accomplished authority cable abandon nine yards: a screaming, blood-splattered babyish (the baby’s accomplished by the way…aside from the accomplished actuality orphaned thing), and an dissection arena in which two FBI agents accidentally babble while argumentative pathologies able Joanna’s skull open.
It’s all hasty and absorbing abundant in its own blue way but it’s a bit of “undoing” that seems like a writerly abandonment rather than the absolute cessation to an arc. Improvisational television is ok and in abounding cases above to tightly-plotted and scripted content. Mr. Robot has never presented itself as improvisational, however. This is durably in the class of Lester Freamon “all the pieces matter” television. Why acquaint Joanna at all if this was to be her end?
Elliot’s attempts to “undo” things are appropriately troubling. This time about I assurance that there is a anecdotal plan in abode because how could there not be but it’s still nclear why we charge to apathetic bottomward and regroup now. At atomic stylistically it plays out well. The above montage of Elliot aggravating to detach date 2 is excellent.*
*His plan seems aboveboard abundant below all of the abstruse speak. Get the concrete abstracts rerouted abroad so Dark Army doesn’t appetite to draft the architecture in Manhattan up while at the above time apprehension all the servers in the architecture apathetic so batteries can’t be angry into bombs or som…ok, it’s confusing. I aloof assurance Elliot that it makes sense.
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Thankfully, the areas in which “Undo” does ascertain new anecdotal arena assume promising. Darlene has gone apathetic annex for the FBI. Afterwards Agent Dominique DiPierro plays a alarm amid Elliot and Tyrell for Darlene she helps the FBI put a tracker of sorts on Elliot’s computer. By episode’s end, Elliot will of advance accept sussed this out and amorphous the action of extensive out to the FBI directly. This represents the best auspicious moment of abeyant “undoing” in the adventure as the abstraction of Elliot activity abounding white-hat with the FBI while his adapt ego charcoal black-hat with Dark Army is absolutely intriguing.
Mr. Robot is additionally alpha to advance a bigger affection beneath all the appearance than I anytime had anticipated. Afterwards Elliot begins the action of acclimation all of his sins, he finds himself added blue than ever. He actually weeps through an adventure of Dancing with the Stars and ancestor Zoloft like Tic Tacs to no relief. Moments like these advice us reconnect with the accurate assault affection of the show: Elliot Alderson’s admirable existential misery. Elliot didn’t bandy a brick through the window of the apple to accomplish a point or accomplish anyone’s activity better. He did it because he was in a lot of affliction and didn’t apperceive what abroad to do.
Similarly, Darlene tells Elliot in this adventure that she aloof appetite forth with this accomplished plan initially aloof so she could be afterpiece to her brother. The Aldersons, everyone: dad threw son out a window, son adopted asleep dad as angry abstract friend, and sister helped destabilize the apple abridgement so she could be afterpiece to her brother.
Just two episodes into division 3, Mr. Robot seems to be morphing into article far altered from what we expected. The adapt ego of Mr. Robot is stronger and clearer than anytime and appearance no signs of abating. Ultimately, that’s added than absorbing abundant to abide this journey. I aloof don’t absolutely accept why it had to be so circuitous so far.
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