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Mr. Robot has good tech because, like HBO's Silicon Valley, they consulted with people in the industry.

USA has posted an interesting making-of of sorts on the show: https://youtu.be/1BbTUASfrAI



The point is why they consulted with people in the industry. Often when media shows hacking it's as an action scene, and you can have some very exciting realistic hacking scenes, but only if you can rely on the audience understanding a lot of the context, which you can't, so instead they present a charicature of hacking that is exciting to a wide audience. The same can be said of many other domains of knowledge. You can make realistic historical settings extremely interesting, but that's very hard if the audience doesn't know the historical background so that they can connect what is happening on the screen with what happened in history.

Mr. Robot consulted with people industry because their hacking scenes more closely resemble Sherlock Holmes detective work than action sequences, so they don't have to make things happen fast to get viewers' adrenaline flowing and can have time to give lay-people more room to understand the context. Without this story structure any expert consultations would be wasted.


I appreciate your comment, I think is insightful, but I have to say it: about the 'get viewers adrenaline flowing', they could, at least, make a little effort in avoiding the totally ridiculous.

If they are not aiming for realism, they could, at least, try to be coherent in their own 'universe'. Sometimes, the things that come from Hollywood feel like they don't respect their public.

We leave for another day the discussion about if their public deserve the respect.


Matrix wasnt action oriented?




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