With Mr Robot now available to stream on Amazon Prime, we chat to creator Sam Esmail about the 90s, geekdom and on-screen hackers…
First: an admission of incompetence. The most interesting question to put to Sam Esmail, creator and showrunner of the best new series to come out of the US this year, only came to me on my way out of the interview, while stood on the lushly carpeted staircase of the Mayfair hotel hosting the Mr Robot junket. It’s this: how does Esmail’s show square its anti-capitalist, anti-corporate themes with a US home on an NBCUniversal channel owned by multi-billion dollar corporation, Comcast, and now a UK home on Amazon Prime? That, I would have liked to have asked.
Mr Robot, for those who don’t yet know, is the story of Elliot Alderson [Rami Malek], a socially anxious cybertech security worker who becomes involved with a hacker group aiming to take down a multinational corporation. It’s stylish, clever, packed with nerd detail, and well worth your time. For the full article click here
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