In retrospect, Mr. Robot’s second season was pretty good — especially at predicting the America of 2017

GQ

“No other modern TV has so compellingly captured the sense of futility and exhaustion that has so thoroughly penetrated American life in 2017,” says Scott Meslow. “The world of Mr. Robot, like the world of today, is corrupt and stupid and cruel—and the people who might be able to change things refuse, because the corruption and stupidity and cruelty of the system is what enabled them to reach positions of power in the first place.”