Mr. Robot

On several Sunday nights back in October and November, I'd watch HBO's Watchmen followed immediately by the Season 4, the final season, of Mr. Robot on USA Network.

The back-to-back episodes were both exhilarating and exhausting to watch.  Two excellent shows, two convoluted, complex, non-linear plot lines, and two different sets of interesting and compelling characters.  It was a lot to keep up with.

Watchmen is now over and I'll get around to rewatching the 10 episodes sometime soon.  The Witcher (Netflix) came and went, and I binge-watched the entire season in something like two sittings. 

But it's Mr. Robot that in retrospective is the most compelling.  Now that the show is over and the last episode has been aired, I've started re-watching all four seasons, well over 40 hours in total.  One of the amazing things is how well it all holds together, how coherent the story is over the four seasons.  Not to sound too pretentious or anything, but there is merit in conceptual continuity, and Mr. Robot has that in spades. The plot has more twists and turns than a country road, and it's interesting to see in retrospect how the writers knew all the way back in Season 1 the surprises that wouldn't be revealed until Season 4. There are subtle hints and innuendos that are dropped in earlier seasons about cataclysmic changes that lie ahead in later seasons, but they all went right over my head on the first watch through.  

If you have access to Amazon Prime, I couldn't recommend Mr. Robot strongly enough.  It's a brilliant piece of cinematic art, and it's well worth the time spent watching it.