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In its third season finale, Mr. Robot rejects the revolution
“Science has promised us truth...it has never promised us either peace or happiness.”—Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A…
Mr. Robot
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All trust is gone as Mr. Robot sets up a showdown
“Trusting thus opens one up to harm, for it gives rise to selective interpretation, which means that one can be fooled,…
B
A dark night of the soul leads Mr. Robot to a hopeful place
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether or not life is worth living…
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The rich will always control any revolution on a disheartening Mr. Robot
“First, capitalism is a pure religious cult, perhaps the most extreme there ever was.”—Walter Benjamin, “Capitalism As…
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Mr. Robot inverts last episode's trick and delivers a tense, thrilling experience
“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the…
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The halfway point of Mr. Robot season 3 is a total gimmick, but it's a fun one
“For the observation that prison fails to eliminate crime, one should perhaps substitute the hypothesis that prison has…
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Mr. Robot takes a closer look at the toll on Darlene's soul
“Danger and habit: Both create environments in which the climate of betrayal is so pervasive that individual acts of…
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Mr. Robot reveals where Tyrell Wellick has been hiding all this time
“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods.”—Baron d’Holbach
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A shocking death rearranges the pieces on Mr. Robot's chessboard
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent—people who are glad…
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Mr. Robot returns, but is charging its batteries instead of changing the world
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is…
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Reality itself is up for debate on the strangest Mr. Robot yet
“When knowledgeable journalists tell us that ‘events, not men, shape the big decisions,’ they are echoing the theory of…
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On Mr. Robot, everybody wants to rule the world, at least a little
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone
enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world,…
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Elliot’s in charge of more than he knows on an oblique Mr. Robot
Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and…
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Mr. Robot exposes the frustrations of an Fsociety without Elliot
What we look for both in public officials and in our friends is character. Not a set of discrete, heroic, ethically…
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The illusion shatters on Mr. Robot, and everything is both true and false
What means does civilization employ in order to inhibit the aggressiveness which opposes it , to make it harmless, to…
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Mr. Robot gets a thrilling spy mission—and an appearance from ALF
Cypher: You know, I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my…
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Elliot and Angela go all in, and Mr. Robot recaptures its old mojo
In an increasing urban and technological society, the natural processes of human existence have acquired a moral status…
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A game of chess almost destroys everything on Mr. Robot
“‘I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!’ Alice said at last. ‘There ought to be some men moving about…
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Elliot hits bottom—in life and in his mind—on another epic Mr. Robot
“We necessarily express ourselves by means of words and we usually think in terms of space. That is to say, language…