130 Fun Facts About Mr. Robot

Which US cable channel originally aired Mr. Robot?

The network renewed it for a second season before the first had even premiered.

Who plays hacker Elliot Alderson?

Malek later won the Best Actor Oscar for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.

Which actor plays the title character, the anarchist who recruits Elliot?

Slater had been off the A-list for years; the part revived his career.

What does fsociety plan to do to E Corp's data?

Wiping out consumer debt is the group's founding goal.

What does Elliot call the conglomerate that Allsafe protects?

Everyone in Elliot's head hears the company called by his private name for it.

Where is the series set?

Silvercup Studios, Queens College and Coney Island were among the filming locations.

How many seasons did Mr. Robot run?

The fourth season was announced as the last in August 2018.

How many episodes were made in total?

Season 4 alone had 13, the most of any season.

Who plays Darlene Alderson?

Chaikin auditioned for both Angela and Darlene and got the hacker.

Who plays Elliot's childhood friend Angela?

Angela climbs from Allsafe to a PR job at E Corp over the course of the show.

Whose persona does Mr. Robot turn out to be?

Slater is credited as both Mr. Robot and Edward Alderson.

Which mental health condition explains Mr. Robot's existence?

Malek consulted a psychologist to prepare, and Esmail then hired her as a consultant.

Where does fsociety operate from?

Coney Island's real boardwalk doubled as the exterior of the base.

What item of Malek's own clothing became Elliot's signature look?

The costume department ordered 20 more even though the item had been discontinued.

Which drug does Elliot snort in the pilot?

He follows it with suboxone to stave off withdrawal.

What are the season 4 episode titles based on?

The run goes from "401 Unauthorized" to "410 Gone" before the titles change style.

What do the season 1 episode-title suffixes (.mov, .mkv, .avi) refer to?

Season 2 switched to encryption suffixes and season 3 to library and archive files.

What is the title of the season 3 finale?

It is the only season 3 title styled as a computer command rather than a file.

What is the title of the final episode?

It aired back to back with "whoami" on December 22, 2019.

Who plays E Corp executive Tyrell Wellick?

It was the actor's American television debut.

What nationality is the actor who plays Tyrell?

His on-screen wife Joanna is played by a Danish actress.

Who plays Whiterose?

Wong was recurring for two seasons before being promoted to the main cast in season 3.

What official post does Whiterose hold in China?

Dom's team meets "Minister Zhang" in Beijing in season 2 with no idea who they are talking to.

What is Whiterose's birth name?

Wang Shu is the name of her assistant in season 4.

Who plays FBI agent Dominique "Dom" DiPierro?

Gummer joined as a regular in season 2 and stayed to the end.

What position does Price, played by Michael Cristofer, hold?

Michael Cristofer guested in season 1 before joining the main cast.

What is Dark Army fixer Irving's day job?

By season 4 he has written a novel and is signing copies at an airport bookstore.

Who plays Irving?

Cannavale went straight on to Esmail's next series.

Whose drug supplier is Vera when we meet him in season 1?

Vera is also Elliot's only source of suboxone, which is why Elliot tolerates him.

Who plays drug dealer Vera?

Villar was promoted to the main cast for the final season.

Who plays Tyrell's wife Joanna?

Corneliussen was promoted from recurring to series regular in March 2016.

Which House of Cards actor plays Allsafe boss Gideon Goddard?

Gill played President Garrett Walker on the political drama.

Who composed the show's score?

Quayle won a Creative Arts Emmy for the pilot's music.

Which award did Malek win for Mr. Robot in 2016?

He was nominated for three Golden Globes for the role but never won one.

Malek's Emmy made him the first non-white winner in his category since which year?

Andre Braugher's win for Homicide: Life on the Street was the previous one.

Which award did Slater win in 2016 for playing Mr. Robot?

He was nominated for the same Globe again in 2017 and 2018.

How many Golden Globe Awards did the series win?

Best Television Series – Drama and Slater's supporting award, both in January 2016.

Which broadcasting honour, judged at the University of Georgia, did the show win?

Esmail and Malek accepted the 2016 Peabody in person.

How many of the 45 episodes did Esmail direct himself?

He directed three in season 1 and then every episode of seasons 2 through 4.

Who directed the pilot episode?

Oplev also directed the original film of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Which episode drew the show's largest US broadcast audience, 1.75 million?

Another 2.6 million had already watched it online before broadcast.

On which platform did the pilot get a live-streamed pre-release in May 2015?

Fsociety later "hacked" the show's Twitch account and paid viewers via PayPal as a stunt.

Which film did Esmail credit for a lead with a split identity manifesting his father?

Playing "Where Is My Mind?" during the hack was Esmail's nod to the film's climax.

Which 2011 uprising did Esmail cite as an inspiration for the show?

Esmail is of Egyptian descent and watched young people use social media to force change.

Roughly how many actors did Esmail audition for Elliot before Malek?

He was close to rewriting the character when Malek's audition changed his mind.

What was Mr. Robot originally going to be?

The end of the film's first act became the season 1 finale.

Why was the season 1 finale pushed back a week?

The murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward happened the morning it was due to air.

What is E Corp's Steel Mountain?

Fsociety's first plan was to blow up a neighbouring gas plant to destroy it.

Which small computer does Elliot plant to overheat Steel Mountain's tapes?

The plan is to raise the temperature slowly until the magnetic tapes are ruined.

Why does Mr. Robot push Elliot off a railing onto a beach in episode 2?

The fall foreshadows the reveal that Elliot's father did the same thing when he was a boy.

Where does Elliot find his kidnapped friend after breaking Vera out of jail?

Vera's line "She was with you the whole time" is one of the show's cruellest twists.

Whom does Tyrell strangle on a rooftop in season 1?

Scott Knowles is later arrested for his wife's murder.

How does Joanna distract police asking about the rooftop murder?

She gives birth soon after, and Tyrell is fired from E Corp in the same episode.

What does Elliot find on a CD that reveals Mr. Robot's identity?

Moments earlier he had kissed Darlene, having forgotten who she was.

What business did Elliot's father run?

The shop's name is the origin of the title, and young Elliot chose it.

What is Elliot's own hacker handle?

It nods to Sam Esmail's own name; "Sam Sepiol" is the un-leetspeak version.

What name is fsociety's E Corp attack known by?

It gets its name from the date the hack was executed, May 9.

Where has Elliot actually been for most of season 2?

The audience saw his mother's house because that is what Elliot chose to see.

What crime lands Elliot in jail in season 2?

He pleaded guilty and served 86 days of an 18-month sentence.

Which comedian plays Ray, the prison warden with a dark-web side business?

Ray recruits Elliot to fix a Tor site trafficking drugs, weapons and people.

Which rapper plays Leon, Elliot's sitcom-obsessed Dark Army minder?

Young M.A also appears in the show, as Vera's henchman Peanuts.

Which 1980s TV alien appears in season 2's sitcom-parody episode?

The episode plays as a 1990s family road trip with Tyrell locked in the trunk.

What is the result of Elliot's chess match against Mr. Robot in season 2?

Mr. Robot had promised to leave forever if Elliot beat him.

What is Project Berenstain?

Fsociety leaks it after learning it spied on three million people.

What is the name of E Corp's cryptocurrency?

Price uses the Chinese bailout money to prop it up and force the government to back it.

Which African country does Price let China annex in exchange for a bailout?

Whiterose wants to move her plant there.

What is Whiterose obsessed with, according to Elliot's first meeting with her?

She times every meeting to the minute and punishes anyone who wastes hers.

How does Susan Jacobs, E Corp's general counsel, die?

Susan had a heart condition; Darlene calls it self-defence.

Where are Mobley and Trenton hiding at the end of season 2?

Leon finds them there and asks for the time.

What is the real name of fsociety hacker "Trenton"?

Sunita Mani plays her; Sunil Markesh is Mobley.

What does the Dark Army's "Stage 2" involve?

Elliot's attempt to stop it by moving the records ends up making it far worse.

How many E Corp facilities explode in "eps3.5_kill-process.inc"?

They were the buildings Elliot had redirected the paper records to.

How was "eps3.4_runtime-error.r00" presented?

The set was split between Manhattan and Brooklyn, so the take had to be stitched.

How many shots did FuseFX stitch together for the one-take episode?

Some individual shots involved up to 15 cues and 27 takes.

Which camera rig let the crew float between the E Corp tower and the riot outside?

The DP and camera operator Aaron Medick handled it.

Who was the show's cinematographer, known for leaving huge headroom in frames?

Characters sit at the bottom of the frame to suggest a weight hanging over them.

Which FBI supervisor turns out to be a Dark Army mole?

He kills a local cop to keep Tyrell's arrest secret and is himself killed in the barn.

Who is revealed in the season 3 finale to be Angela's biological father?

Donald Moss, who raised her, is her adoptive father.

Who saved the encryption keys that let Elliot reverse the E Corp hack?

Elliot had assumed another fsociety member kept them; the FBI records show otherwise.

What happens to Angela at the start of season 4?

Whiterose sends Elliot a photo of her body as a warning.

What is the Deus Group?

Zhang built it globally over decades, according to Price.

Which institution do Elliot and Darlene hack to rob the Deus Group?

Elliot gets a passcode by seducing bank employee Olivia Cortez.

What day is it when Elliot and Darlene break into the Virtual Realty server farm?

Elliot then leads police on a foot chase through Central Park.

What is the day job of Janice, Dom's Dark Army handler in season 4?

She befriends Dom's mother to get close to her.

Whom does Dom send to rescue her family from the Dark Army?

With her family safe she shoots Janice in the head.

Where does Darlene plan to fly with Dom in "410 Gone"?

Darlene misses the flight after a panic attack; Dom boards alone.

What does Darlene do with the stolen Deus Group money?

She calls it justice; Irving calls it the reason nobody is chasing her anymore.

Where does Elliot go alone at the end of "410 Gone"?

He finds the plant deserted and its workers slaughtered.

What does Whiterose leave for Elliot on an old computer in "eXit"?

He plays it thinking he can stop the meltdown, but seems to be too late.

In the alternate world, how many siblings does Elliot have?

In that world he runs Allsafe, Tyrell runs F Corp and Elliot is engaged to Angela.

What name is given to the persona viewers followed all series?

Krista explains that this persona created the utopia to keep the real Elliot trapped.

Whose voice greets the real Elliot when he wakes in hospital?

Her line gives the finale its title.

Whose track "Outro" plays over the closing sequence?

Paste called its use transcendent.

How many seasons did the writers originally plan before shortening the story?

After season 3 they found they only needed 11 more episodes, so season 4 became the last.

Who holds Elliot and his therapist hostage in "407 Proxy Authentication Required"?

It aired commercial-free, with crisis resource information for viewers.

What structure did critics compare "407 Proxy Authentication Required" to?

It uses two adjacent sets and heavy audio cues, like theatre.

Where did Vera say he built a criminal empire before returning to New York?

He claims to have taken control of the country and Haiti in 87 days.

Who kills Vera?

She stabs him in the back while he is consoling Elliot.

Which professional body nominated Esmail for writing "407 Proxy Authentication Required"?

The category was Best Episodic Drama at the 72nd WGA Awards.

Which real hacking-conference founder joined the show's technical advisory team?

Moss founded both Black Hat and DEF CON.

Which operating system distribution appears in multiple episodes' hacking scenes?

Real hacks were performed by the tech team, recorded and rebuilt in Flash animation.

Who hosted the live aftershow Hacking Robot?

Greenwald later co-created Briarpatch with Esmail.

What was the title of the 2016 tie-in book by Esmail and Courtney Looney?

It shares its name with the restaurant where Tyrell hides in season 3.

Which studio published the mobile game Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n?

Players find the phone of an fsociety member and help bring down E Corp.

How long is the Mr. Robot Virtual Reality Experience Esmail directed?

It explores Elliot's past and needs a VR headset to watch.

Which streaming service added the show in July 2025?

It had left Amazon, its long-time home, in October 2024.

Which channel aired the show in the Republic of Ireland?

In Canada it aired on Showcase and in Australia on Presto.

What Rotten Tomatoes record did the first run of episodes set?

The season's overall score sits at 98% from 146 reviews.

Season 2's episode order grew from 10 to how many?

The extra hours came from splitting the premiere and finale into two parts.

Which town is home to both Elliot and Sam Esmail in real life?

Esmail graduated from Washington Township High School in 1995.

Why was Esmail put on academic probation at NYU?

He studied film and computer science at Tisch.

Which Amazon series starring Julia Roberts did Esmail direct after Mr. Robot?

He directed its whole first season and produced the second.

Which 2023 apocalyptic film did Esmail write and direct?

The show's composer scored it too, reuniting the team.

How did Wallström win the part of Tyrell?

It was his most prominent international role to date.

Chaikin auditioned for Darlene and which other role?

She said the character's bad-ass nature appealed to her.

On which sitcom did Chaikin play Dalia Royce before Mr. Robot?

It ran on ABC until its cancellation in 2014, a year before Mr. Robot began.

Doubleday first drew notice as Sheeni Saunders in which 2009 film?

She played opposite Michael Cera.

The actor who plays Whiterose won a Tony Award for which play?

He is the only Broadway actor to win the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Clarence Derwent and Theatre World awards for one role.

Cristofer, who plays Price, won a Pulitzer Prize for which play?

It also won the Tony for Best Play in 1977.

Cannavale won a Supporting Actor Emmy for playing Gyp Rosetti on which series?

He had also won a guest-actor Emmy for Will & Grace in 2005.

Gummer made her Broadway debut in a 2011 revival of which Tom Stoppard play?

It earned her a Theatre World Award.

Villar made his Broadway debut in the original cast of which play?

Vera was described on his page as an eccentric Dominican gangster.

The show's composer also scores which Ryan Murphy anthology?

He also handles 9-1-1, Pose and Feud for Murphy.

Which stand-up comedian plays Elliot's E Corp coworker Samar Swailem?

He appears in season 3, when Elliot is working inside E Corp.

Where does Angela realise the fsociety mask comes from?

The memory convinces her that Elliot and Darlene created fsociety together.

Who talks Elliot out of suicide on Coney Island in season 3?

Elliot then plays the old "wishing game" with Angela and finds the will to live.

What does Elliot demand from Krista's cheating boyfriend besides a confession?

The stolen dog is the crime that eventually puts Elliot in jail.

Whom does Elliot frame for the pilot's DDoS attack on E Corp?

He gives the FBI a falsified .dat file after Colby has Angela thrown out of a meeting.

Why were the season 1 finale's Times Square scenes shot just before July 4?

The crew could not shut Times Square down, so it filmed late at night before the holiday weekend.

Which fsociety member owns the arcade in a season 2 flashback?

He wanted to rent it to Mobley, who recruited him instead.