Hello, friends! Have your journals at the ready, pull up a bleacher at the basketball court, and make yourself uncomfortable at Magda’s Big House, because fSobriety is back (finally!) on the Mr Robot rewatch train. Join our hosts as they set out to offer a necessary corrective to season two’s original lukewarm reception and make a case for its overall brilliance, beginning here with the audacious two-part premiere.

Along the spoiler-filled and pun-drenched way, season two’s quickly established motifs are considered in the larger context of the show’s ultimate conclusion, themes and metaphors scoured for aesthetic and sociopolitical morsels, the writing and film-making scrutinised, and visionary show creator Sam Esmail subjected to copious volumes of unabashed fangirling. The season two love-fest starts here – get on board or force our hosts to listen to Adele on repeat when they get home.
 
PLUS – In a bonus intermission, some brief musings on Yellowjackets, Cobra Kai, and other recent TV fare, as well as exciting news about upcoming fSobriety content.

TIMINGS:
00:00:00 – Mr Robot season 2 preamble
00:10:27 – Mr Robot: "eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc"
01:13:45 – Intermission
01:17:43 – fSobrieTV: Yellowjackets, The Witcher, She-Ra, Cobra Kai, Euphoria
01:30:00 – pressFsobriety: Remembering some icons, recently deceased
01:35:42 – Mr Robot: "eps2.0_unm4sk-pt2.tc"

 A cousin (several times and mental planes removed) of Elliot Alderson in Darren Aronofsky’s Pi:
https://youtu.be/ShdmErv5jvs

The KLF Burn a Million (£1M) Pounds - BBC Omnibus Documentary (1993):
https://youtu.be/L9SzDFGbsFI

Revelation, Chapter 21:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21

Greg Tate obituary by Tirhakah Love:
https://www.vulture.com/article/greg-tate-obituary.html

Robbie Shakespeare & Sly Dunbar interviewed in the ‘90s:
https://youtu.be/-gfLqzf5piM

All music referenced on our podcast can be found on the fSobriety Jukebox playlist:
  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1jAIayDqTBbdWEl339DEST?si=15ee072827644102