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Mr. Robot – Season 2, Episode 6 eps2.4m4ster-s1ave.aes

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Mr. Robot – Season 2, Episode 6

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Aired Aug 10, 2016

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Crime

Mystery & Thriller

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Mr. Robot tries to prove to Elliot that he can be useful; Darlene and Angela's plan does not go as expected.

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"eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes" provides one of the most audacious and creative openings in the series to date before taking a thrilling and touching dramatic turn in the episode's second half.

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Christian Slater

Mr. Robot

Rami Malek

Elliot

Portia Doubleday

Angela

Carly Chaikin

Darlene

Martin Wallström

Tyrell Wellick

Grace Gummer

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Paul MacInnes

Guardian

08/12/2016

With this week's episode, Esmail is taking the mickey. Not content with creating a complex drama, he's knocked off a note-perfect pastiche of one of those sunny 90s sitcoms. And played it for shivers.

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Jeff Jensen

Entertainment Weekly

08/12/2016

"m4ster-s1ave.aes" opened with an impressively sustained act of mad-hatter storytelling that took us through the looking-glass and into a topsy-turvy metaverse of self-commentary, allegory, and demented jabberwocky.

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Jenna Scherer

Rolling Stone

08/11/2016

Sam Esmail is one of the most innovative creators to make his mark on television in a long time. But his greatest skill, after all, may lie more in synthesis and imitation than originality.

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Randy Dankievitch

TV Over Mind

02/11/2020

3/5

A final, tense sequence helps to resolve some of this feeling of emptiness, but the many of this episode's gimmicks, twists, teases, and reveals still feel... kind of empty in the large scheme of things.

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

08/22/2018

There's no doubting the entertainment value of the second section of episode six.

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Jordan Alsaqa

TV Equals

08/11/2016

Some of these changes worked, others didn't, but whatever the case, there's no denying that "eps2.4m4ster-s1ave.aes" was just an off entry for the show.

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Synopsis

Mr. Robot tries to prove to Elliot that he can be useful; Darlene and Angela's plan does not go as expected.

Executive Producer: Sam Esmail, Steve Golin, Chad Hamilton
Network: USA
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Aug 10, 2016