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” performance and an Oscar for its opposite in “Bohemian Rhapsody”). And its conceit, that the world is governed by entities interested in seeding chaos for their own benefit, has seemed more urgent since the show’s 2015 premiere. The near-perfect first season had the right talent and the right timing.
The season, Esmail has said, is to take place entirely over the 2015 holiday period — either a richly symbolic time, sitting on the precipice of a historic election year, or not. No one in this story seems to care who the president is, though madness obviously tends to redound to the benefit of Whiterose , “Mr. Robot’s” world-conquering corporatist. Elliot’s previous heroics — canceling global debt in the first season — ended up only helping Whiterose consolidate power.
It’s powerful, and with limited precedent, to see so much of the world outside Elliot. Esmail’s insistence on focusing inward — including and especially on Elliot’s relationship with his alter personality, Mr. Robot — had, in the seasons after the series’ explosive launch, flattened a gifted ensemble. They served a purpose for Elliot or for the story, then exited the stage when the purpose was fulfilled.
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