Elliot seems horrified by it, but the plan has Mr. Robot’s fingerprints all over it.
It’s Mr. Robot from the get-go. We teased this volatile element of Mr. Robot in the beginning of the whole show. In the second episode, Mr. Robot’s solution to destroying the backup tapes at Steel Mountain was to blow up the power plant near the facility and that would destroy all the tapes. Being the other half of this personality, (Elliot) wanted to find a less volatile way. In the first season we saw that tendency inside him. And now that came to fruition in this season.
Tyrell sounds terrified, though, when he calls Angela. Why was he so scared?
Tyrell loves Elliot. The interesting thing about Tyrell and Elliot is that they have this bond, this connection. That’s what we set up in that first scene, actually the first time they met in the pilot. They have this relationship where they connect on this much deeper level. Tyrell’s set up as this villain but they’re not in this antagonistic back and forth. They actually have this weird deep bond. That was set up in that first scene in Coney Island when Tyrell tells this story about his father and not wanting to be like him. That resonates with Elliot, and Elliot at the time was Mr. Robot. The way we’ve presented Elliot’s real dad in the past, he was nothing like the Mr. Robot we see in Elliot’s split personality. And it’s a rebellion against everything Elliot’s dad was — a guy who was too weak to fight back against everything Evil Corp was. And Mr. Robot, the side of Elliot’s personality, connected with Tyrell’s rebellion against his father, the fathers they felt were too weak for them. There’s a real bond that formed there. In the end, when Tyrell shot him, he didn’t want to shoot him. He felt like this was a partnership that was on the verge of victory that they were going to complete this Stage Two. And Elliot was going back on it. When he shot him, he was literally in tears. That conversation when he tells Angela that he loves him, it’s true. From Tyrell’s perspective, he really does loves this person. He feels that he gives him the fulfillment that he’s always been looking for in his life.
It’s Mr. Robot from the get-go. We teased this volatile element of Mr. Robot in the beginning of the whole show. In the second episode, Mr. Robot’s solution to destroying the backup tapes at Steel Mountain was to blow up the power plant near the facility and that would destroy all the tapes. Being the other half of this personality, (Elliot) wanted to find a less volatile way. In the first season we saw that tendency inside him. And now that came to fruition in this season.
Tyrell sounds terrified, though, when he calls Angela. Why was he so scared?
Tyrell loves Elliot. The interesting thing about Tyrell and Elliot is that they have this bond, this connection. That’s what we set up in that first scene, actually the first time they met in the pilot. They have this relationship where they connect on this much deeper level. Tyrell’s set up as this villain but they’re not in this antagonistic back and forth. They actually have this weird deep bond. That was set up in that first scene in Coney Island when Tyrell tells this story about his father and not wanting to be like him. That resonates with Elliot, and Elliot at the time was Mr. Robot. The way we’ve presented Elliot’s real dad in the past, he was nothing like the Mr. Robot we see in Elliot’s split personality. And it’s a rebellion against everything Elliot’s dad was — a guy who was too weak to fight back against everything Evil Corp was. And Mr. Robot, the side of Elliot’s personality, connected with Tyrell’s rebellion against his father, the fathers they felt were too weak for them. There’s a real bond that formed there. In the end, when Tyrell shot him, he didn’t want to shoot him. He felt like this was a partnership that was on the verge of victory that they were going to complete this Stage Two. And Elliot was going back on it. When he shot him, he was literally in tears. That conversation when he tells Angela that he loves him, it’s true. From Tyrell’s perspective, he really does loves this person. He feels that he gives him the fulfillment that he’s always been looking for in his life.
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Safe to say we'll see more of Tyrell next year?
We'll definitely see more of him in season three.
There's another post-credits scene this season. In season one, you focused on the illuminati of sorts, Phillip Price (Michael Cristofer) and Whiterose (BD Wong). This season, it's the foot soldiers: Mobley, Trenton and Leon. Why was this the right note to end the season on?
We're doing two things. Obviously, we're answering the mystery about where Mobley and Trenton went off to. We're also setting up another dynamic in this whole web we've created, which is, there may be a solution all of this. There may be a solution to reverting the hack. Whether or not that's even relevant to anyone anymore, and whether or not anyone even wants that at this point, is up for debate. But to add that into the mix — what if you can fix the thing that we started — is something we felt would be an interesting dynamic for season three. The other side of this is that this whole show has been about these guys who really wanted to change society, to revolution society, and of course they didn't think everything through. They acted more on impulse and were a little bit naive in that decision-making. We saw in the second season that this isn't exactly what they were expecting, that we were in the hangover of this. Now we have those same two revolutionaries saying, "Let's put this all back together." It brings up this very interesting question: Once you break something, is there a way to go back? Or have you done something too drastic that it's irrevocably changed? That there is no turning back? That's a question we were interested in exploring moving forward.
We'll definitely see more of him in season three.
There's another post-credits scene this season. In season one, you focused on the illuminati of sorts, Phillip Price (Michael Cristofer) and Whiterose (BD Wong). This season, it's the foot soldiers: Mobley, Trenton and Leon. Why was this the right note to end the season on?
We're doing two things. Obviously, we're answering the mystery about where Mobley and Trenton went off to. We're also setting up another dynamic in this whole web we've created, which is, there may be a solution all of this. There may be a solution to reverting the hack. Whether or not that's even relevant to anyone anymore, and whether or not anyone even wants that at this point, is up for debate. But to add that into the mix — what if you can fix the thing that we started — is something we felt would be an interesting dynamic for season three. The other side of this is that this whole show has been about these guys who really wanted to change society, to revolution society, and of course they didn't think everything through. They acted more on impulse and were a little bit naive in that decision-making. We saw in the second season that this isn't exactly what they were expecting, that we were in the hangover of this. Now we have those same two revolutionaries saying, "Let's put this all back together." It brings up this very interesting question: Once you break something, is there a way to go back? Or have you done something too drastic that it's irrevocably changed? That there is no turning back? That's a question we were interested in exploring moving forward.
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Season 2, arguably, has a bigger cliffhanger than season 1. What do you think are the big questions fans are going to be asking heading into season 3?
I think the one big one will be “What happened to Angela? Has she really been flipped? Or is she now playing some other motivation?” And I think that’s great. I know that people sometimes get frustrated that we leave Angela’s motivations in the dark, but I think that’s what adds to the intrigue of her. That’s why I’m so continually fascinated by her character: You can’t quite nail her down to which side she’s playing. It feels like she’s always playing both sides. I think that’s going to be a big question.
What else? Obviously, Leon and the coda and what will become of our affable heroes, Mobley and Trenton. Darlene and what will become of her relationship with Dom and how that will transpire, especially as that relates to Elliot. I think those will be the questions, but the fans and all of the viewers have always surprised me with the questions they ask. Sometimes they’re questions I didn’t even think we were asking.
For me, it’s to what extent we should be wondering about White Rose and her connection to the Washington Township plant. Is that a thread that still needs to be explored?
It is a thread that needs to be explored, but the big question is: What is going on in that plant? Why does she care so much about it? Also, what did she tell Angela to convince her of that? Obviously — and I’ll say this right now, on the record — those questions will be answered in due time. Not every episode can answer every question, but those are the big, overarching mysteries of the show. The White Rose and plant of it all is something that harkens back to the beginning of the series. I think it will always be looming throughout the series and as we go into the next season. When it comes to Angela and it comes to the characters, those are the questions we want to answer more satisfactorily. Literally in the next season, we’ll start to unravel those motivations and what did happen to Angela in those 28 minutes.
I think the one big one will be “What happened to Angela? Has she really been flipped? Or is she now playing some other motivation?” And I think that’s great. I know that people sometimes get frustrated that we leave Angela’s motivations in the dark, but I think that’s what adds to the intrigue of her. That’s why I’m so continually fascinated by her character: You can’t quite nail her down to which side she’s playing. It feels like she’s always playing both sides. I think that’s going to be a big question.
What else? Obviously, Leon and the coda and what will become of our affable heroes, Mobley and Trenton. Darlene and what will become of her relationship with Dom and how that will transpire, especially as that relates to Elliot. I think those will be the questions, but the fans and all of the viewers have always surprised me with the questions they ask. Sometimes they’re questions I didn’t even think we were asking.
For me, it’s to what extent we should be wondering about White Rose and her connection to the Washington Township plant. Is that a thread that still needs to be explored?
It is a thread that needs to be explored, but the big question is: What is going on in that plant? Why does she care so much about it? Also, what did she tell Angela to convince her of that? Obviously — and I’ll say this right now, on the record — those questions will be answered in due time. Not every episode can answer every question, but those are the big, overarching mysteries of the show. The White Rose and plant of it all is something that harkens back to the beginning of the series. I think it will always be looming throughout the series and as we go into the next season. When it comes to Angela and it comes to the characters, those are the questions we want to answer more satisfactorily. Literally in the next season, we’ll start to unravel those motivations and what did happen to Angela in those 28 minutes.
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That’s just some of the hell that our Mr. Robot protagonists are currently weathering. But as Mr. Robot season 3 extends into the first half of 2016, before the November election, it will be intriguing to see how the nation’s radically-changing socio-political landscape will impact their lives.
“The sentiment and the outrage and the support of Donald Trump; the groundswell by which he rose to become the Republican nominee, that sort of atmosphere is going to be used in the Mr. Robot universe and amplified by this great economic collapse which is happening like a slow car accident. What you’re seeing is the events that stoked those (Trump-like) sentiments,” says Esmail who is heading back to the writers room soon and will continue to direct all of season 3’s episodes, just like he did in season 2. In the Emmy press room on Sunday, Malek dropped the news that he already shot a scene for season 3.
“There will be a lot of overlap,” Esmail says about melding current events into Mr. Robot season 3, “the increased terrorism and domestic violence that has gone on, a lot of that will play into the Mr. Robot universe.”
“The sentiment and the outrage and the support of Donald Trump; the groundswell by which he rose to become the Republican nominee, that sort of atmosphere is going to be used in the Mr. Robot universe and amplified by this great economic collapse which is happening like a slow car accident. What you’re seeing is the events that stoked those (Trump-like) sentiments,” says Esmail who is heading back to the writers room soon and will continue to direct all of season 3’s episodes, just like he did in season 2. In the Emmy press room on Sunday, Malek dropped the news that he already shot a scene for season 3.
“There will be a lot of overlap,” Esmail says about melding current events into Mr. Robot season 3, “the increased terrorism and domestic violence that has gone on, a lot of that will play into the Mr. Robot universe.”
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