Mr. Robot - Season 3 - Review

By
Ethan Griffin
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9.5

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Mr. Robot - Season 3

The influence of the Dark Army is revealed to be much broader than Elliot thought, which makes his mission of stopping their plans more difficult. In season 3, instead of getting a showdown between Elliot and his other personality, Mr. Robot, we actually get to see them working together again, as they are both now facing the same enemy.

The Season 1 hack turned out to make things worse for the public than Elliot could have imagined, so he strives to undo the hack and recover all E-corps data. The third season was filled with emotional moments between Elliot and Angela and we get to know more about Whiterose’s past.

While the story expanded to its limits in this season, everything was brought back together in the epic finale and it was all accentuated by the astounding performance of the cast and the signature cinematography created by Todd Campbell.

A new character (and a secondary villain) is introduced in season 3. His name is Irving and he’s a dark army operative who helps out with stage 2 of the plan that Mr. Robot has been planning with the Dark Army without Elliot knowing.

Angela is now working for Whiterose as well, thinking that Whiterose will somehow bring back her dead mother. Stage 2 involved blowing up a building that had the backup data of E-Corps.

On the other hand, Elliot actively tries to stop this plan by working for E-corps, but Angela eventually finds out what he is trying to do and talks to her superiors, so they fire will him.

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The next episode runs in a sequence of only one shot, that highlighted the brilliance of Campbell, as the camera moved from one character to the other, while also bringing into the light the mess that was occurring inside E-Corps building and Angela’s struggle to hack into the server so that they could still run stage 2.

Eventually, Elliot and Mr. Robot start fighting for dominance over Elliot’s body and communicate using, ironically enough, computer notes, until Mr. Robot listens to Elliot and they bring an end to the plan.

However, it turned out the Whiterose’s plan was to blow up 71 other buildings and not just the one, which proves that she has manipulated both Elliot and Mr. Robot. This is the moment where they both start working together.

The end of the season was action-packed, intense, and shocking when we find out that Elliot was seeing Mr. Robot ever since he was a kid and that his disorder wasn’t instigated when his father pushed him out of the window. In fact, his sister tells him that he jumped, which means that Mr. Robot is the one who pushed him that day.

Sam Esmail managed to strike a balance between the events and what occurred inside Elliot, which was important at that point, as it will reflect greatly on the events of Season 4. Overall, the third season of Mr. Robot deserves a 9.5 out of 10 for the characterization of both the protagonist and the antagonist.