As long as we're giving praise to various pieces of pop culture - HBO's Watchmen, The Outer Worlds video game, the music of 2019 (but not Shaky Knees), and afro-futurist jazz legend Sun Ra - we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the cyberpunk drama, Mr. Robot. 

We're well into the fourth and final season right now, and the series continues to impress us with each passing year.  What started out as a basic hacker drama - alienated young man wearing a hoodie takes on bad guys by hacking computers - quickly morphed into a psychological drama about multiple personality disorder and global loss of privacy, basically Fight Club meets Matrix.  

Season 1 was mind blowing and one of the most audacious series not on premium cable.  But not content to rest on its laurels, Seasons 2 and 3 dove even deeper into the mystery, going well beyond the mere dual personality of its protagonist.  Those two seasons were surreal, paranoid meditations on global conspiracies, power, and the mind's ability to deceive itself, and the cast revealed themselves to all be superb performers capable of breathing credible life into the sometimes incredible script.  It was one of the best things on television.

Season 4, this season on right now, has upped the ante once again.  It may have seemed impossible to top Season 3, but Season 4 has just taken things to a whole other level.  I don't want to spoil anything with any reveals, and the plot is so twisted and mysterious that even if I tried to say what I thought was happening, the next episode would probably pull the rug out from under and prove me wrong yet again.  The show is so full of untrustworthy narrators and turn-on-a-dime plot twists that you're never on sure footing for long, which heightens the suspense and makes for some compelling watching.

Sadly, though, no one seems to be talking about this show.  I didn't even realize that Season 4 was on the air until Episode 5 had already played.  Even though it stars Rami Malek, who recently impressed the critics with his portrayal of Queen's Freddie Mercury in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, Christian Slater, and Grace Gummer (Meryl Streep's daughter), it's on the somewhat obscure USA Network, which has a reputation for airing old sitcom reruns and wholesome family programs.  Mr. Robot doesn't pull any punches though, and it seems as far from typical USA Network programming as you can get. 

But it's sad - arguably one of the best shows on t.v., certainly moments of some of the best drama on the air right now is hardly watched by anyone.  

Must be a conspiracy.