the new USA show MR. ROBOT: the rise of Rami Malek and the inexplicable solidness of Christian Slater

Almost finished. Good use of Carly Rae Jepsen over Darlene and Dom at the airport.

Finished up last night. Remembered almost nothing specific from the last two or three episodes, except how nuts and convoluted it got (and that they would have been better to end with Darlene and Dom on the park bench as people start getting their money)--I still couldn't explain to you how much of the four seasons is real, how much dream/fantasy, and how much somewhere between. Such obvious homages to Lynch (twice) and 2001. "Heroes and Villains" was a nice surprise.

Last thing I'll say on my deathbed: "I still don't fucking understand Tyrell Wellick."

he is just a social striver looking for a cult with a dommy wife

I honestly think my first misreading of Wellick, that we'd find out at some point that he was another manifestation of Elliot's split personality, would have made more sense than what we got. Wellick would have been the corporate, buttoned-up side of Elliot--the social striver, yes--that Elliot recognized in himself (he was, after all, a technological genius with a job at All-Safe) and found loathsome. Obviously they would have needed to restructure the story to accomodate this, but that I would have understood.

I think he was always the guy who sailed through the corporate talking head path but felt a sense of loss he wasn’t the disruptive hacker guy, with all the projected coolness. And he literally goes back to the woodshed with an axe in atonement for his corporate sins! His wife is content with making him feel pathetic