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Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart

The Guardian

For many fans Mr Robot's main attraction was the fact it wasn't like anything else out there. In its first season it took the unreliable narrator trope and flipped it; made other characterisations of mental health look hackneyed and used some pretty weird camera angles to great effect. Elliot Alderson's mission to exact revenge against E Corp, while battling his own inner demons – and Christian Slater – was riveting. But is it beginning to lose its appeal? At the start of the third season the cliffhanger ending concluded in a predictable and – narratively speaking – tidy manner: Elliot is alive, and so is Mr Robot.