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Finished Season 3 last night, was really great. I completely adored the First Season but i found the first half of Season 2 pretty weak which put me off a bit even though the second half was great. The weird thing about the show is i think i see pretty much every twist coming way in advance and it doesn't effect my enjoyment due to the excellent direction, writing, performances. Malek, Slater, Wallstrom and Cannavale (weird since he plays a cheesy character) especially, also like Chalkin and Cristofer quite a bit. Think Portia Doubleday is inconsistent i found myself really not caring about her breakdown in the second half of the Season, just wanted the show to return to Elliott/Mr Robot or the FBI or whatever. Also the Chinese characters are awful, i don't really find them that important overall despite them being the big villains, they represent the elites/system that seems impossible to overcome and quite a bit of the focus in their storyline is on Cannavale and the dude Elliott was in prison with thankfully. Really wish the bringing people back thing was just something White Rose made up to manipulate Angela though, her actually believing in it seems very "mystic chinese" to me which is an absurd trope for a show today to be delving into and i kinda wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be real in some way i mean it's just a supernatural version of F Societies original goal to destroy E Corp. I actually considered the young blonde girl being Angela, hope that's not the case. That could have been used to explain how White Rose could have managed to manipulate her so easily, admittedly it's very implausible that she'd not know that's not her but then we are obviously supposed to believe this intelligent woman was in a fragile enough mental state that she believed White Rose was going to bring her mother back from the dead. Wouldn't rule out an Angela has been told to do all this by White Rose twist yet either, really hope it doesn't go there either there's been enough of that sort of thing it's starting to become ridiculous.
That episode with Elliott and Trenton's brother was so impeccably placed, i think the amped up tone shift in Season 1 with Elliott's overdose episode was incredible but the other one that came to mind that was only brief (not even a whole episode) like Trenton's brother ep: that weird Sitcom one with Alf was pretty bad. The Trenton's bro ep came at a time when there was just so much constant tension and angst, halting that for pretty much a self contained calm episode (although continuing various themes) was so perfect. I mean Episode 6 is a masterpiece but i honestly think that episode might stick with me more.
Anyway, loving the show again. I'm hoping it ends either next Season or goes just one more, i think as much as i like it this show has strong potential of becoming very sucky and i think that would be a great shame as it can be incredible.
Last edited by Camo; 04-10-18 at 12:13 PM.
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