KorAdana

Thank you for the kind words. Sam and I have always believed that the technology itself is inherently interesting. Your frustration with how it's been done up to this point is something that we bonded over early on. We wanted to do it in an authentic way and it feels like the time is right for this kind of storytelling. With more of the population using and depending on their smartphones and laptops, it's no longer necessary to dumb down or spruce up technical beats that people might not understand. I think our work on Mr. Robot has shown that people do understand and appreciate the technical detail worked into the show.

Yes.

We do our best to weave in the technical details with the stakes of our story. The technology sometimes steers the story in a specific direction. For example, we originally had a different hack planned for the season two premiere. Once we realized that it wasn't technically feasible, we had to change the specific beats of the story to match a ransomware attack on Bank of E. Most of the time, these changes are small tweaks to dialogue and major tweaks to screen content.

The intention with the audio easter egg was to foreshadow Angela's journey in a cool/interesting way that felt in line with our other easter eggs. Mac (our composer) and Sam came up with this idea and there was much discussion about which image to use. They decided it would be a fun time to plant the "Hang in There" poster because it would be a fun callback when Angela entered that room.

I try to monitor /r/MrRobotARG as often as I can. If someone is going down a rabbit hole that leads nowhere, I do my best to steer them away from that. I do enjoy witnessing the hive-mind at work and I'm often impressed with how quickly our eggs get discovered. The theories on /r/MrRobot are defintely entertaining.