Rami Malek promoting "Mr. Robot" season 2, which premieres this summer. (Photo : YouTube/Mr. Robot)
"Mr. Robot" is posed to return next Wednesday with darker things to bring to the table on its second season after its groundbreaking success last summer.
According to Mercury News, the second season will pick up a month after the events of the first season, where Elliot Alderson's team has successfully yet hazily infiltrated E Corp and deleted all accounts of consumer debts in America. The U.S. economy is crippled in the process.
The last few episodes of the previous season were some of the most intense thriller rides we've seen on TV, and so we should normally expect the continuation of this chaotic crisis. There was a televised suicide, "Mr. Robot" was only a figment of Elliot's vivid imagination, Tyrell Wellick's currently nowhere to be found, Joanna Wellick has shown a dark, true psychopathic character possibly being more evil and more nefarious than her husband, and so on.
Now that Fscoiety has caused grave damage to capitalism and massive inequality perpetuated by E-Corp, they are being pursued by both the biggest company in the US and the FBI as well. The president has directed orders to find and pursue whoever's responsible.
More than that, we can no longer draw the line between what's real and what's fictitious whenever "Mr. Robot" is involved in a scene. Knowing that he is just a product of Elliot's declining mental health, and his initial unawareness of his hallucination, it can be difficult to assume if he's just his subconscious speaking or something else entirely.
Focusing on Elliot himself, we also don't know much about his backstory, but we will learn a whole lot more from the upcoming season for sure. The show's director, Sam Esmail, said that we will learn more about how he transformed to the isolated, morphine-addicted computer genius that he is, and what kind of relationship he had with his father when he was still young.
New cast members including American Horror Story's Grace Gummer, The Office's Craig Robinson, and hip-hop star Joey Bada$ will also make regular appearances with minor roles in the forthcoming season. Lastly, going way beyond the second season, Esmail already a detailed plot envisioned for the whole show, and said that the show won't last for more than five seasons, according to Variety.
