Mr. Robot series finale recap: Whoami and Hello, Elliot

Did you catch the Mr. Robot series finale? Because–wow.

Mr. Robot did something pretty incredible with its two-hour series finale. Even three weeks after its aired, I can’t seem to shake off the goosebumps and chills of the final two episodes. It’s very difficult for a series to end its run on a memorable note, but rest assured, Mr. Robot did not have this problem.

As we saw from the previous episode, Whiterose’s machine seems to have done something. What that something is remains unclear, but it’s certainly given us a side of Elliot Alderson we’ve never seen before. One that is happy, engaged to Angela, and has a thriving relationship with his family. It’s very weird to see this alternate version of his, but it feels deserving after everything he’s been through.

Confused and lost, our Elliot finds his way to his home (the one from the reality we know). It’s still his house but his mother lives in it alongside his dad–and they’re happy. And she can’t seem to shake off the excitement about her son’s upcoming nuptials. Of course, Elliot is completely lost as to what is happening. And there is no sign of Darlene because she doesn’t seem to exist here. Not to mention, his old room is a closet!

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Elliot’s next stop is Angela’s place where he finds a very happy-go-lucky Philip Price answering the door. Aka his future father-in-law–how weird is that?! While talking to his future in-laws, Angela’s mother gets a call from…well, Elliot.

To avoid any sort of weird disaster, Elliot picks up the cell phone to answer to himself, which does nothing but cause a weird tremor through the apartment.

The Mr. Robot trip down “what the hell is going on” lane continues as Elliot goes to his apartment to investigate. The apartment is filled with a life that Elliot does not recognize. Everything’s too perfect and Elliot being Elliot, doesn’t believe that this version of himself has nothing to hide.

And he would be right. After perusing through the other Elliot’s computer, he manages to find a hidden folder filled with images, familiar images. It’s basically sketches of the story of Mr. Robot that we have come to know after four seasons. What the heck is going on?!

The other Elliot walks in shortly after to find our Elliot sitting inside his apartment. It’s so weird to see the two versions talking to each other, trying to understand the other version of themselves. Very trippy, very.

Basically, the other Elliot is the real one who created the one we know because he was bored?

But wait, it gets better! The other Elliot can hear our Elliot’s thoughts. Of course, that makes sense but it’s weird to see that someone else knows what he’s thinking. Given that all of this is very subliminal and strange, it’s not surprising that they experience another tremor, which actually ends up hurting the other Elliot.

As he fights for his life (and our Elliot completely ignores him), Angela ends up calling. I particularly enjoyed this scene as the old Elliot spoke to Angela, someone he lost some time ago but always loved. It’s all enough to remind him of what he once had, and now that he has it again–he’s not letting go. Which is why he lets him die. Poetic, much?

Naturally, when everything seems to be working for dear ‘ol Elliot, Mr. Robot shows up to remind Elliot that this isn’t his life to take. But who wants to listen to Mr. Robot? Not Elliot.

The series finale continues to get trippier as Elliot heads to Coney Island for his wedding but finds his guests wearing the infamous fsociety masks. And then finds out she is not coming because Whiterose’s machine didn’t actually work. The weirdness continues as we see Elliot chase after Angela only to learn that she is referring to him as the “mastermind” of this all.

Are you processing all of this so far? Well, I hope so, because it gets more complicated as the finale treks on. Elliot finds himself bouncing around certain moments, one of which leads him to Krista who basically tells him he has disassociative identity disorder. And his alternate personalities include Mr. Robot, a younger version of himself, his mother–and the Elliot we know.

WHAT THE WHAT?! At this point, my mind was blown.

This leads us into Elliot waking up to find himself in a hospital bed with Darlene next to him. The entire story comes full circle as Darlene confesses she knows that he’s not the Elliot, the one she knew as a young kid, the one she misses so much.

The scene cuts to white as Elliot bids farewell to all his personalities who walk out of a red door at the end of a hallway. A door that leads to a movie theatre, where our Elliot sits down next to the others and watches images of Elliot’s life whizzing by on the screen. All the images come together to form a picture of a human eye, which is actually Elliot’s eye.

“Hello, Elliot”, says Darlene.

The end.

Now, if that wasn’t the most powerful series finale, I don’t know what else. There’s not much more I can say about the perfection that it was, but I’m so glad they got it right. It was everything we could have wanted from the ending, and it was absolutely satisfying to see the story end on this note.

We’ll miss you, friend.

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