Amazon Prime have bagged the rights to one of the year’s unexpected highlights. USA Network (home to Suits and Burn Notice) aired Mr Robot earlier this year and found themselves with a cult hit on their hands, one of those shows that is far better than its slightly hokey premise: maladjusted hacker taking on The Man.
Mr Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, a gifted internet security adviser who moonlights as a vigilante hacker. As well as being a morphine addict with a distinct lack of social skills, Elliot spends his time snooping on his friends’ lives and trying to hide his contempt for the corporations he helps in his day job.
Into this hermetically sealed life comes the mysterious “Mr Robot” (Christian Slater, in a performance that will remind viewers of a certain vintage just how exciting he was when Heathers first came out) with an invitation to put his dark web skills to use in a much wider fight, taking on the mysterious Evil Corp …
Amazon Prime will show Mr Robot season one from 16 October in the UK, Germany and Austria
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