The best part of Mr. Robot so far (SPOILERS)

I watched the first series of Mr. Robot years ago and I don't remember why, but I lost interest. I think it wasn't on Netflix at the time and I was torrenting everything at that point in my life. Therefore, watching anything was kind of a pain in the butt because it involved remembering what episode you were on, a USB stick, and other such stuff that really isn't that difficult but i am going to complain about anyway.

Big Spoilers ahead!

I have thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Robot but as it gets towards the end of season 3 (which is where I am now) I see the series is kind of winding down and perhaps even running out of ideas. It's starting to get very ridiculous the way that all series that appear to be built to just go on forever and aren't based on any already existing story, tend to go.

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There have been a lot of good sequences in this series that lead to a "gotcha!" moment and these were really surprising such as when you find out that Eliot's father is actually a figment of his imagination towards the end of season 1. The best part of it in my mind happened in season 2 because they really make this entire sequence believable and when the big reveal happens towards the end it was just fantastic. It involves when Elliot has a new routine that keeps Mr. Robot, his father, from appearing in his life.

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In his routine, his mother wakes him up early in the morning, and he goes and has breakfast with a friend of his friend, then goes to watch basketball where he routinely gets chatted up by a friendly guy named Ray (played by Craig Robinson, which is always a treat) and then later he goes to have the rest of his meals with the same friend he has breakfast with his friend Leon and then goes back to his mother's house at the end of each day where he records everything in his journal before going to sleep.

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It is because of this routine that he is able to keep his father, Mr. Robot, from appearing until eventually it doesn't work anymore. Then a bizarre sequence occurs where some white supremacists corner him in an alleyway and beat him up because he owes them money for fucking something up by his hacking but then one of them pulls his pants down like he is going to rape Elliot. Which doesn't make a lot of sense given the context.

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It is at this point that a big reveal unravels that has been going on for several episodes and after you see waht is going on it kind of makes you feel a little bit dopey for not realizing something was a bit unusual about his routine each and every day and this was a wonderful piece of storytelling on the part of the writers.

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Turns out that Elliot is in prison and his routine of eating with the same person at the same time and going to the basketball court every day isn't a routine that he has prepared, it is one that is kind of enforced on him by virtue of the fact that he is in jail. The rest of the surroundings are just figment's of Elliot's imagination which at this point we, the audience are well aware is pretty powerful.

This all takes place in Season 2 across several episodes and I think it might be the highlight of the entire series for me thus far. I honestly had no idea what was really going on the entire time.

If you saw this I'd like to know your thoughts about it. In my mind season 2 was the best season and maybe the peaked too early because season 3 has been a bit of a letdown since 2 was so amazing.

I know there are only 4 seasons in total, so I guess I'll have to wait and see if they get good again!