I enjoyed Mr Robot as I thought it was able to take a complex character in Elliot and delve into him and his psychological issues and how he became what he did but was also able to pull off a very elaborate plot with a mixture of interesting characters and interwoven themes running through the show.
While the premise is completely bizarre and fictional there is a realism to it too as you watch the emotional and mental unravelling of Elliot Alderson.
As a show it doesnt get the credit it deserves - it isnāt on The Wire/Sopranos level of prestige but it isnāt all that far behind in my opinion. Rami Malik is sensational in it and it is a complete mind fuck at times which only add to it.
Did you get to the episode when all is revealed in season two? The first half of the season are only really a set up to a big reveal which blows your socks off
Itās a similar kind of twist to the first series when it lands you are thinking āof courseā as it is so obvious but you donāt put it together until it happens. It is to do with the Dark Web fella he is helping who was in Hot Tub Time Machine who I can never recall his name
I love the bit where Nicks mother sends him down to the bar to get his auld lad. He goes in and heās watching the horses and your thinking, standard degenerate dead beat. And then it turns out he never has a bet. Simple things like that.
Heās a great character. So what if heās a bit cliche, heās a lovable rogue. Have you ever met an Irish-American? They go out of their way to live up to the stereotype.
Paulie Walnuts on the other hand is just a cringe, slapstick character.
Come off it. Paulie is an unmarried monster with no kids and clearly has mother issues. Heās almost childlike. As a mobster heās hardly cliched and I believe is a well developed character in his sheer oddness.
Even if you take the Irish thing out of McNulty heās stilled cliched.
Heās a slapstick character, his sole function in the show is to act a prop for a few punchlines. Heās not a serious character at all, heās more suited to a sitcom or dark comedy.
I donāt agree, I think there is a distinct contrast by his hard man routine and his need for attention from Tony in particular. If he has gags in relation to that all the better.
Either way heās not a cliche and thereās nothing worse than that in my view.