Sam Esmail breaks silence on MrRobot's format-shattering Christmas special
," in which Elliot and Tyrell become lost in the forest, with the latter individual eventually losing his life.thus far, the title for the final season's fifth episode should have been a dead giveaway: "405 Method Not Allowed," a signal that some how, some way, Esmail would deliver another standout format-shattering installment.
Instead of spoken dialogue, "405 Method Not Allowed" leans on texts between characters, not to mention an insane amount of action, including Elliot and Darlene ripping through a security firm in order to hack their way into the heart of the Dark Army. Eventually, Elliot's forced on the run, quite literally, sprinting through Central Park and sustaining a whole lot of physical abuse in the process.
"When we play with format, we don't start by stipulating, 'This is the episode where we must do X, Y and Z,'" Esmail tellsabout how the episode came together. "We start making the episode, and then we find our way in terms of how to tell the story. When we started breaking the episode, we knew this was going to be the big hack on Virtual Realty. We started realizing as we started working through Elliot and Darlene's storyline that they had to be very quiet.
"Once we cracked that," Esmail continues, "we stepped back and were like, 'Wait a minute…' We looked out at all the other storylines. Price has this lonely, quiet Christmas morning. Instead of being able to be with her family, Dom has to go off and be away from her family, in order to do this mission for the Dark Army. Even Krista is preparing Christmas dinner for her boyfriend. We just felt we didn't need words for this episode.
"Ultimately, this is the great thing about television and what a movie can't do," says Esmail, who first conceived ofas a feature film, before adapting his own script for television. "You can make a creative decision like this within the space of a chapter if it makes sense for that hour in the episode.
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