Mr. Robot Recap: Eps3.0power-saver-mode.h

Season: 3 / Episode: 1 / USA Mr. Robot is trying man. They tryna go down in history as one of the greatest. Yea, I said it. One of the best to ever do it! I mean, taking the perfection that is Season 1 off the table, we still have moments of sheer cinematic prowess seared into our memories for all the right reasons. The FBI vs Dark Army Matrix level gun battle that went down in China. The bullet hailstorm that rained down on Darlene and Cisco in Lupe’s Diner! With so many scenes done in beautifully sweeping single shot takes, you would think they had an HBO budget. Angela getting snitch-napped and dropped off in that shutter inducing room with the faux abused child and ancient computer before meeting White Rose? The 90s sitcom episode of nostalgic, coping litness! Colby and Price’s absurdly powerful conversation about annexing the Congo to China, with that 1914 German caricature map of Europe behind Price..coupled with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand convo. Men in rooms making world-changing decisions, remember dat? The brass bull balls hurdling from space, crashing through the roof on Capitol Hill! Joanna, the beautiful monster’s vile words for a man grieving his wife (who was killed by Joanna’s hubby). The intensity that was Portia Doubleday’s Angela negotiating with Philip Price. It’s all been so insane and gratifying. I don’t know how Sam Esmail directed every episode of season 2, but I’m 100% in this world he has created.

Now onto season 3. We get our first shot…