Mr. ROBOT
CRIME / DRAMA / THRILLER
USA
2015-2019
Mr. ROBOT is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. Mr. ROBOT consists of 45 episodes of 45 minutes.
STORY: It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Elliot is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists called "fsociety". The group aims to destroy all debt records by encrypting the financial data of E Corp, the largest conglomerate in the world.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallström) is originally the ambitious Senior Vice President of Technology at E Corp and later part of fsociety. Tyrell is extremely ambitious and thus goes to great lengths to get what he and his wife want, sometimes resorting to sleeping with people to achieve them. Wellick has sex with Philip Price’s male secretary Anwar Raziz (Mitchell Winter) just to tap his cell phone and have surveillance on the CEO of E. Corp. Wellick has no emotional attachment to any of the people he has affairs with and his wife knows of all these affairs, sometimes even encouraging them in order to get what they both want.
Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallström) & Anwar Raziz (Mitchell Winter)
MARTIN WALLSTRÖM (2015-2019) July 7, 1983, Uddevalla, Sweden
MITCHELL WINTER (2015) ?, USA
SPECIAL: Sam Esmail has acknowledged several major influences on the show, such as American Psycho, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange and The Matrix. In particular, Esmail credited Fight Club as the inspiration for a main character who has dissociative identity disorder creating a new manifestation of his deceased father in the form of a hacker.
AWARDS: ‘MR. ROBOT’ won 3 Primetime Emmys. 21 wins and 86 nominations
8.5 IMDB
