The previously filmed season finale of Mr. Robot contains a graphic scene similar in nature to today’s tragic events in Virginia. Out of respect to the victims, their families and colleagues, and our viewers, we are postponing tonight’s episode. Our thoughts go out to all those affected during this difficult time.
And now we know why: because of a scene in which an exec for
the show’s Microsoft-/Apple-esque tech company E Corp shoots himself on
live television. Before Wednesday, it merely would have merely been
unsettling (and reminiscent of R. Budd Dwyer’s
on-air suicide in 1987). If it ran last week as planned, just hours
after Parker and Ward’s deaths, it very well could have come off as
distasteful, if not outrageous. Postponing the finale was clearly the
smart, considerate thing to do.
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