9) It’s The Best-Looking Show On Television
As Mr. Robot was first dreamt up as a feature film, it seems appropriate that the show looks so gorgeously cinematic. The pilot was stylishly directed by Girl With a Dragon Tattoo helmer Niels Arden Oplev in a heavily Fincher-influenced kind of grungy-slick film language, and the series on the whole appears to have wholeheartedly adopted the same striking visual aesthetic.
As cinema and television increasingly converge, TV shows are looking more and more like film – and Mr. Robot is arguably the best current example of that. The show’s all odd angles and characters edged into the corner of frames, like chess pieces on engulfing tableaux; not only that, but it looks at New York City in a completely new way, turning the shiny tourist-magnet into a cold, tech-y future metropolis.