Vigilante hacker "Mr. Robot" is back for season 2 with the hacker team pondering on what they have done in season 1. USA Network's surprise hit will be airing again on Wednesdays 10 ET/PT from July 13.
In season 1, Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) and his team massively hacked a major corporation which erased all the people's debts but had the global economy out of control. The hacker is now on voluntary recluse, living with his mom in Queens a month following the cyber attack. While the hacker team worked hard together in season 1 to carry out the attack, this season, they will be divided into two different feels about what happened.
"Mr. Robot" season 2 will not have new characters or new missions. It will be about how the hacker team struggle with the decisions they have made, USA Today reported.
As the new season starts, Alderson is wary of making more mistakes and causing damage, while exploring his loneliness. He received a court-mandated mental illness therapy. Mr. Robot (Christian Slater), the mythical hacker group fsociety leader is a projection of his father who succumbed to leukemia when he was young.
The anti-social programmer is trying to control every aspect of his life by ostracizing himself and exiling from anyone he cares about. Such he thinks are the way to cure his very serious mental illness, a struggle that is part of his "darker" side in the upcoming season.
The hacker team is more threatened. An FBI agent (Grace Gummer) is pursuing Alderson while his hacker sister Darlene is feeling more empowered by the data breach.
"Mr. Robot" won Golden Globe Awards for best drama and supporting actor Slater. Its average viewership was 1.4 million viewers, bringing prestige to USA Network, that has moved towards more serialized drama like "Graceland," "Suits" and "Political Animals."
The drama is inspired by the show creators' knowledge of technology from reading blogs and hanging out with coders. Esmail was fired from his student job at a computer lab in New York University for hacking a server in another school.
While Mr. Robot is Alderson's alter ego in the form of his dead father, conspiracy theories based on the drama series include Tyrell Wellick as the young hacker's another ego, according to News.com.au. Backing it up was Tyrell's implied aid with the hack though he disappeared in the finale. When Alderson had a blackout during the hack and forgetting what transpired in the past few days, he woke up in Wellick's car.
Watch "Mr. Robot" season 2 promo clip below.