'Mr. Robot' Season 2 may have tried too hard, but that's what made it great in the first place

Warning: if you're not a fan of spoilers or fictional conglomerates hellbent on taking over the free world, you should probably stop reading here. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. That's essentially what the finale of Mr. Robot came down to on Wednesday night. Season 2 of Elliot's long, enigmatic journey to topple superconglomerate E Corp and, quite frankly, society, faded to black with him nursing a gunshot wound to the gut, falling to the ground and spewing blood all over the floor of an abandoned warehouse.