Mr. Robot (TV Series)

""I wanted to save the world.""

Mr. Robot was a drama-psychological thriller series on USA Network created by Sam Esmail, starring Rami Malek and Christian Slater. Premiering on June 24, 2015, it ran for four seasons and concluded with a two-hour finale on December 22, 2019.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer who leads a double life as a vigilante hacker taking down criminals and abusers. One day, he gets recruited by a mysterious man named Mr. Robot to join his group called "fsociety" and finds himself in the middle of an online war against E Corp, the company with whom Elliot has a personal vendetta against for his father's death. He soon learns that nothing as it seems to be around him and there is more than meets the eye.


 * Abusive Parents: Elliot and Darlene did not have a good life with their parents. Their mother had beaten them and verbally abused them, but Elliot got the worst of it when it was revealed that his father had sexually abused him as a kid.
 * Action Survivor: Elliot has survived multiple near death expiriences throughout the series such as being kidnapped, beaten up, shot, overdosed on heroin and being trapped in a nuclear meltdown.
 * Affably Evil:
 * E-Corp CEO Phillip Price is generally polite but is extremely greedy and cunning on the inside
 * Ray is the only person besides Leon who makes a conscious attempt to befriend Elliot in prison. Just when Elliot begins to see him as a mentor of sorts with the knowledge needed to find a place in a chaotic world, Ray is revealed to be the curator of a digital black market that specializes in guns, drugs, and human trafficking. Even Elliot is disappointed by this.
 * Leon, works as a ruthless assassin for the Dark Army, but still remains friendly and caring towards Elliot.
 * Irving is very calm and upbeat, yet also a brutal enforcer who describes murder as "fun."
 * Janice seems to be an ordinary, friendly person until she reveals that she's a merciless hatchetwoman for the Dark Army. Even then she sounds chipper.
 * Abhorrent Admirer: Both Tyrell and Vera serve as one for Elliot.