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Ignoring everything else, Mr. Robot builds a spectacular atmosphere, which is an almost impossible task in television. This show is wonderful. I'd say it competes with Game of Thrones on quality and it's my favorite show right now.

They get the technical details right enough to earn respect. Sometimes you need to give artistic freedom to the writing as long as it doesn't devolve into a graphic of Pacman eating data. Gives you some meaningless pride when you see a protagonist empty a can of Pringles into the trash, knowing exactly what they are doing.

If someone has a problem with the series, my natural reaction at this point is that they're pretentious... it's not fair but imo really that's what all the criticism has boiled down to:

You noticed the heavily telegraphed twist? Good job! Gold star for you!

You're going to criticize a show with such wonderful atmosphere building for having long episodes? Wow, your time must be really important!

He uses the wrong text editor or Linux flavor? You must be a master, could you please fix my iPad?

The characters are flawed or mercurial? Could you please elaborate on the strengths of two-dimensional characters?