USA Network‘s Mr. Robot Season 4 is in production, leaving hackers everywhere to rejoice.
Sadly, the fourth season of Mr. Robot will be the show’s last. Show creator Sam Esmail confirmed once and for all that Mr. Robot Season 4 will be the final season. Oh well, to the nice farm upstate for retired dramas with you.
Mr. Robot has been a critical win for the network since the beginning. Stars Rami Malek and Christian Slater have received numerous award nominations, including an Emmy win for Malek for Best Actor in 2016. The series also stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin, Martin Wallström, Grace Gummer, Michael Cristofer, and BD Wong. Additionally, actor Bobby Cannavale received praise after joining in Season 3.
We’ve covered Mr. Robot Season 3 in-depth, including a behind-the-scenes interview on how the show’s easter eggs cross over into the real world. You can follow along with our reviews here.
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Mr. Robot Season 4 Release Date
USA Network has not set a release date for Mr. Robot Season 4, but the new teaser trailer states that the final season is “coming this fall.”
Filming started back in November and is still ongoing. Thus, fall would be the earliest we could expect Mr. Robot Season 4 to premiere. However, given the recent revelation about a Christmas time setting, we might be looking at November or December.
Mr. Robot Season 4 Trailer
Need a reminder of what went down during the first three Mr. Robot seasons? Allow Leon (Joey Bada$$) to explain.
The first teaser trailer for Mr. Robot‘s final season is here! The clip shows Rami Malek’s Elliot forced by an unseen character to answer a very tough question about his destructive actions across the series. It may not be much, but it’s certainly enough to renew our dormant appetites for the series.
Mr. Robot Season 4 Poster
The first image from Mr. Robot Season 4 has surfaced and it features a familiar face. Check out the image below:
Along with the image came a secret message urging fans to head to https://www.whoismrrobot.com/ to learn more about the upcoming final season.
This follows the announcement that Mr. Robot Season 4 will, according to creator Sam Esmail, take place across the span of a single week in December of 2015, carrying the unifying theme of the Christmas holiday.
The intriguing detail was dropped at a Tribeca Film Festival panel hosted by THR’s Scott Feinberg, where Esmail explained (via Deadline):
“Typically, how [British shows] wrap up series, like the British [version of The] Office, you tend to do a Christmas special. So, the final season of Mr. Robot is one very long Christmas special that will last about a week over Christmas of 2015.”
Esmail – who was joined in the panel by stars Rami Malek, Christian Slater and Carly Chaikin – spent much of the time discussing the show’s evolution, which, besides its own story developments, has been affected by external factors. The series, which launched back in June 2015, still takes place in the later part of that year. Indeed, after initially brandishing the tagline, “Our democracy has been hacked,” its proven prescience has rendered the series a period piece of sorts.
Mr. Robot Season 4 Details
Rami Malek recently returned to the set of Mr. Robot, which is currently shooting its fourth-and-final frame. However, it’s hard not to acknowledge that Malek is showing up to the set of the cable series after having just won the highest prize that the industry can bestow an actor – a Best Lead Actor Oscar for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. As he shifts focus from Freddie back to Elliot Alderson, his tortured anarchist hacker-turned unwitting pawn for a global criminal cabal, Malek discusses his expectations for Mr. Robot Season 4 in an interview with EW, stating:
“I trust [creator Sam Esmail] implicitly, so if that is the way he thought he could close out this story line, then I’m with him.” He adds, “I can say this, it is a very impactful, emotional, and I think clearly well thought out way to end this story and this series. It’s remarkable. I’m in awe of the man and what he has done this season.”
As far as the atmosphere on the set as the series heads to its finish line, Malek explains:
“Christian [Slater] and Carly [Chaikin] and I were on set the other day almost making a pact to soak everything in as much as possible,” he shares. “Christian has always been a guy who has got me to really savor these momentous times in our lives, and this has been a major one for me and the most life-changing. So, it’s obviously bittersweet, but I’m just going to try and enjoy it for as long as I possibly can.“
Regarding the expectations of the viewers for the series ending, Rami Malek explained in an interview with Digital Spy last month, that the ending will be pretty wild.
“[Christian Slater and I] both got a call from Sam Esmail and my mouth was agape after he told me how the season ended,” Malek said. “It’s going to be a very, very, climactic ending to what I think has been four great seasons of television.”
Mr. Robot Season 4 Cast
No major changes announced so far for the cast of Mr. Robot Season 4. All the regulars including Rami Malek, Christian Slater, and Carly Chaikin will undoubtedly be back. Less clear, however, is the fate of Bobby Cannavale’s character Irving. Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail seems dedicated to bringing him back though, saying “if there’s any opportunity to work with him again, I’ll do that.”
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There’s also the matter of Fernando Vera (Elliot Villar). You may remember him as the guy who Elliot helped get out of prison and who returned the favor by killing Elliot’s girlfriend. Well from the looks of season 3’s post-credits sequence, he’ll be back. Uh oh.
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