TV SERIES · 2015–2019 · USA
Mr. Robot
- Created by
- Sam Esmail
- Network
- USA Network
- Seasons
- 4
- Episodes
- 45
- Studio
- Anonymous Content, UCP, Esmail Corp
29 archived facts 6 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
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16 Facts From Behind the Scenes of Mr. Robot
- #003
For Mr. Robot, Sam Esmail consulted experts so that the depiction of hacking activities would be realistic.
- #010
Sam Esmail was announced in December 2015 as director of every episode of Mr. Robot's second season, whose order grew from 10 to 12 episodes in June 2016 and which premiered on July 13, 2016.
- #011
Mr. Robot's original costume plan for Elliot Alderson was a worn sweatshirt and a colorful backpack, but Rami Malek proposed a black backpack and brought his own B:Scott black hoodie to set.
- #012
The resulting outfit became Elliot Alderson's signature look, and the costume designer ordered 20 additional hoodies even though the item had been discontinued years earlier.
- #013
Sam Esmail encouraged Peterson and his team to experiment in the editing suite as they explored each character's personality and sought ways to preserve their humanity.
- #014
Mr. Robot's cinematographer Tod Campbell helped create a distinct moody and disruptive atmosphere in the series' scenes through stylistic lighting and camera choices.
- #015
Mr. Robot's unorthodox visual approach places characters at the very bottom of the frame, leaving large amounts of headroom that suggests a great weight hanging over their heads and echoes their isolation.
- #017
FuseFX was hired to create the visual effects for the Mr. Robot season 3 episode "eps3.4_runtime-error.r00".
- #018
For that Mr. Robot episode, FuseFX combined 40 shots so they would appear as a single continuous shot running through the whole episode.
- #020
After the pilot episode, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail brought in Kor Adana, a former network security analyst and forensics manager for Toyota Motor Sales, along with security consultant and former FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force agent Michael Bazzell and MobileIron lead solutions architect James Plouffe as advisors overseeing the show's technical accuracy.
- #021
For the second season of Mr. Robot, Kor Adana assembled a team of hackers and cybersecurity experts that included Jeff Moss, founder and director of the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, Cloudflare principal security researcher and DEF CON head of security Marc Rogers, Ryan Kazanciyan and former FBI Cyber Special agent Andre McGregor.
- #022
Hacking scenes in Mr. Robot were performed in real life by members of the show's technical team, then recorded and rebuilt using Flash animation under the direct supervision of Kor Adana, with animator Adam Brustein carrying out the animation process; Kali Linux and its tools appeared in multiple episodes.
- #026
Mr. Robot was filmed in New York, with locations including Silvercup Studios, Queens College and Coney Island.
- #027
Coney Island serves as the exterior of the base of operations for the hacking group fsociety in Mr. Robot.
- #028
In June 2016, USA Network announced Hacking Robot, a live aftershow hosted by Andy Greenwald that would air during Mr. Robot's second season.
- #029
Hacking Robot premiered after Mr. Robot's second-season premiere and returned following the season's tenth episode.
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