The thematic resonance of season four’s own stylistic break is harder to pin down at first.
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It was one of my favorite TV episodes of 2017, and at its center was an inescapable sense that everything - all the chaos and all the serenity - was connected. In season three, it constructed a thrilling hour that was filmed and edited to seem as if it was taking place in a long, continuous single shot that darted and weaved in and around a massive skyscraper on the day of a protest turned riot. Its entire cinematographic palette, so unusual when the show debuted in 2015, is an ode to the power of negative space on even the smallest of screens, to the way that humans can feel swallowed up by emptiness so very easily.īut in its third and fourth seasons, the show has taken its stylistic ambitions to new heights. Robot has always been fond of stylistic gimmicks, undertaken with a wink and a smile. The final season’s fifth episode is a brilliantly staged heist - with only two lines of dialogue Darlene is shocked by where she finds her brother. Robot was simply diagnosing a national illness early in its run, now it’s starting to suggest a cure. Where the show’s focus on lonely and angry young men longing for a less corrupted world felt prescient when the show debuted, it now plays as a reminder of a recent history we’re perhaps too tempted to sweep under the rug.
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Robot’s world, it would still be one of the most talked-about shows.īut there’s value to living in the eternal 2015 of this show, even beyond the fact that the series remains one of TV’s most stylistically and creatively adventurous. Robot world, Barack Obama is still president and Donald Trump is still an outsider candidate whose chances at the White House seem slim.
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Robot is also quite literally stuck in 2015: As the series entered its final season, the action had only advanced to just before Christmas 2015, and if it advances time at all, it might be lucky enough to just crack New Year’s Day 2016.
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The show felt stuck in 2015, and its primary contribution to the culture had become rocketing star Rami Malek (who won an Emmy for his role as disaffected hacker Elliot and later, in 2019, the Best Actor Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody) to superstardom. The third season was an improvement, but by then the conversation had moved on. Robot, which debuted in 2015 and was one of the breakout critical sensations of that year, then squandered at least some of that goodwill on a long and meandering (but still very good!) second season. It feels as though that happened particularly quickly with Mr. The “That show is still on?” reaction is common for series that were once media darlings but then fell out of the zeitgeist. They’re shocked the show is still even on the air. They’re not shocked that I think the final season continues a hot streak the show entered in its third season (which aired way back in 2017).
When I’ve mentioned, offhand, to friends and social media followers that I’m really enjoying the fourth and final season of Mr. The episode of the week for November 2 through 8 is “405 Method Not Allowed,” the fifth episode of the fourth and final season of USA’s Mr.
Most weeks, we pick an episode of the week.
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