Did you like The World After Us with Julia Roberts? Discover the series rated 4.3 out of 5 by its director!

What is it about?

Elliot is a young antisocial programmer who suffers from a behavioral disorder that makes him believe that he can only meet people by hacking them. He works for a specialist cyber security firm, but a man known as Mr. Robot approaches him one day to bring down a powerful company that is one of them to protect…

Mr. Robot, a series created by Sam Esmail and starring Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday, Grace Gummer… is available on Netflix until August 22.

Why is it great?

Launched in 2015, Mr. Robot caused an earthquake in the series. The series featured two talents: Sam Esmail, its creator, who then convinced Julia Roberts to cast her in her first major TV role with Homecoming, before re-convincing her to star in his currently popular film The World After Us. Netflix; And Rami Malek, who we already knew from the Night at the Museum movies, but who gives an amazing performance here.

1. Brain twist scenario

We can’t say too much for people who haven’t seen Mr. Robot yet, but this is a series that has a few surprises, some of which will literally leave you speechless. This techno-thriller, which is also a psychological thriller, is essentially based on the psychology of the main character, Elliot, who is subject to mental disorders, including a form of paranoia. Therefore, the line between delusion and reality is often thin in the world – the world of hackers and very large companies – where everything that seems most improbable seems more plausible.

2. Something Rami Malek is obsessed with

We discovered him as Pharaoh, with the stature associated with his rank, in Night at the Museum and rediscovered him in Mr. Robot. Rami Malek gives himself body and soul to portray Elliot Alderson, an anti-social boy, a hacking genius, a man haunted by his past and mental disorders. He looks particularly haggard for the role. But above all, he oscillates between episodes of pure genius, where his brain is running at full speed, and others, where he seems completely apathetic and depressed. It should be noted that Mr. Robot is one of those very rare series where voice acting really plays an important role. This is Eliot as the narrator of his story, he follows us according to his mood, always in the same monotonous tone, accompanied by sometimes cruel lines.

3. Essential secondary characters

If the series is focused on Eliot, Sam Esmail does not forget the characters around him. They are all so well written, not only serving the narrative and Eliot, that we have the impression that they are living their adventure between the two scenes in which they appear. Mr. Robot, played by Christian Slater, certainly plays a pivotal role. The two have a kind of toxic, co-dependent relationship that’s unhealthy but fascinating. But we’re just as fascinated by the evolution of characters like Angela (Portia Doubleday), Elliot’s childhood friend, or Dom DiPierro (Grace Gummer), who investigates Elliot and whose private life is a troubling sadness.

4. Successful achievement

Production also plays a major role in the series. The techno-thriller side of the series is simply not expressed in its theme. This is reflected in the image with a polished aesthetic that would lean towards David Fincher. We can talk about strength in certain moments. For example, an episode of Season 3 was shot entirely in sequential takes. An episode that will have you holding your breath as the tension never lets up.

5. Visual series

Mr. Robot is not an optimistic series. It is quite the opposite. It has the peculiarity of immersing its story in the present world and even takes the form of a prospective narrative, presenting a possible future in an often dystopian light. It’s about democratic breakdowns in the United States – as evidenced less than 10 years after the series began – or even about China trying to annex other territories…

Over time, Mr. Robot has suffered a bit from narrative mechanics, but Sam Esmail’s series is so obviously true — where we should be in pure fiction — that it deserves our interest. new.