I watched episodes 1 & 2 yesterday. While I admit it is very technically accurate I take exception to the story itself. Whether it's Mr. Robot (Christian Slater, whose a great actor) talking about "falling into K-hole you'll never get out of" or the main characters addiction to Suboxone and other drug references I just can't get behind this one.
There are other aspects I'm not too crazy about either. Blowing up a gas pipeline to destroy a companies backup tapes, his dealer being raped by her source or framing a CTO because you don't like what the company he runs does seems like justifying one crime because another one was committed. In other words, the show uses moral equivalency to suggest two wrongs make a right.
From Sophos Naked Security:
TV's newest hacker drama "Mr. Robot" is technically sound, morally ambiguous
"Mr. Robot," USA Network's new series about a cybersecurity engineer at the center of a plot by a group of hackers to take down an evil corporation, is good entertainment.
But is it also a good depiction of hackers, hacking and infosec?
Before I watched the show's pilot episode, I had seen some trailers and read a few reviews - since debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, the glut of online marketing for "Mr. Robot" has been hard to avoid.
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