This episode is very reminiscent of season three's "eps3.4_runtime-err0r.r00". Both episodes take a ground-level, tension-heavy focus on a hack that needs to get done in a very short window of time, and both episodes are structured around an impressive stylistic gimmick. Where the former episode tells its entire story in one continuous shot, this episode is almost entirely without dialogue. Once you pick up on what the episode is doing, it's fun to catch all the clever ways the writers work maintain the silence.
Yet as fun as it is to watch the episode, with all of its stylistic flourishes, the filmmaking never undercuts the tension. Quite the opposite, really. Aside from a couple brief scenes focussing on side characters, the action is sufficiently fast-paced and intense that idle chit-chat would just break things up unnaturally. Instead, you get a 49-minute unrelenting edge-of-your-seat experience. There were points in the episode where I was getting faint because I wasn't breathing enough.
This is a stellar episode of Mr. Robot, one of the best in the show's impressive resume. Where last week's episode was slow and dialogue-heavy, this one is lightning-fast and almost totally silent.
Yet as fun as it is to watch the episode, with all of its stylistic flourishes, the filmmaking never undercuts the tension. Quite the opposite, really. Aside from a couple brief scenes focussing on side characters, the action is sufficiently fast-paced and intense that idle chit-chat would just break things up unnaturally. Instead, you get a 49-minute unrelenting edge-of-your-seat experience. There were points in the episode where I was getting faint because I wasn't breathing enough.
This is a stellar episode of Mr. Robot, one of the best in the show's impressive resume. Where last week's episode was slow and dialogue-heavy, this one is lightning-fast and almost totally silent.