Sam Esmail over Mr.Robot en het tweede seizoen van deze show

RDJ134 10 juli 2016 om 16:01 uur

Over drie dagen gaat het tweede seizoen van Mr.Robot van start en zien we hoe de wereld vreemde hacker Elliot zich zelf en de mensen om hem heen verder in de ellende stort. Deze serie is simpel weg briljant en geliefd bij echte hackers en ICT mensen, omdat hacken voor de verandering een realistisch in beeld komt in plaats van een paar mensen die als een malle op een keyboard rammen en binnen enkele seconde root toegang op een systeem hebben. Nu had de website The Verge een interview met Sam Esmail over Mr.Robot en van het zeer uitgebreide artikel kan je hier onder alvast een stukje lezen.


In any case, fans of the show will be reassured that it hasn't let up its apocalyptic tone. The first season's preternatural prescience about cybersecurity breaches was half its appeal, with the Sony and Ashley Madison hacks happening so close to its airdate that they felt like network tie-in stunts. "I've heard him discuss the Wal-Mart hacks, the Target hacks, the Arab Spring," Slater says of Esmail's fascination with internet-enhanced breakdowns. "He was paying attention more closely to things that had been percolating, growing. The world has actually started to catch up."

"Watching a group of young people rebel against the one percent - these are not new ideas," says Doubleday. "They're things that as a society we're all thinking but don't know how to tackle. He's just relating to what so many of us are wondering, but don't say, and don't have a platform to."

It's true that Esmail himself has some experience as a hacker; as a college student at NYU he got in trouble for pranking his girlfriend's college's email server. But to hear him tell it, that's informed the show primarily as an aesthetic matter. "We were never going to do cheesy graphics flying at you in the screen," he says. "That, for me, is the biggest no-brainer. We were actually going to use the real screens that hackers would use to execute a certain hack. Anything that didn't feel real, anything that felt 'TV' or 'movie,' we would collectively cringe."

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