Posted on 08/26/2015 2:40:03 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
USA Network has postponed tonight’s scheduled season finale of hacker drama series “Mr. Robot” for a week because the episode includes a scene with similarities to the real-life murders that occurred on live TV this morning 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,” USA said in a statement.
Early today, a reporter, Alison Parker, and cameraman, Adam Ward, for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Va., were shot and killed while delivering a live report for the station’s morning news program. The suspected killer is a former co-worker of the pair who posted video of the ambush on social media after fleeing the scene.
“Mr. Robot” has emerged as a critical darling for USA this summer. The series revolves around an anti-social IT whiz who is drafted to work for an underground group of hackers focused on rooting out evil and corruption in corporate America. Rami Malek and Christian Slater star.
USA said the decision to postpone was made because the finale “contains a graphic scene similar in nature to today’s tragic events in Virginia.”
“Mr. Robot” is the first new USA series to have strong pop culture buzz in some time. The postponement is not likely to be too big of a blow to the show’s ratings momentum. It’s not clear if USA had any time-sensitive sponsorship deals tied to the finale.
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I tried to watch that show, but the prurient filth was to much for this old sailor.
I don’t watch TV dramas. If “entertainment” has scenes that are as bad as a real-life horror like the WDBJ shootings, what does that tell us about the state of television? Westerns and war dramas are in a different time and place. But TV, like video games and films, is now part of the desensitizing of Americans to everyday violence. Don’t blame the guns, blame the sicko “culture.”
Best show on TV right now. Bar none.
It’s raising some very interesting points. E Corp = Google.
I thought this was an Al Gore thread.
I’m surprised that USA Network didn’t make the episode available for online viewing.
Translation - this is a great opportunity to get some free publicity for our crummy show.
They didn’t way it was as bad as, they said it was similar in concept and they felt it would be insensitive to have it air 24 hours after. Nothing really new about that. I remember some “clown gone wrong” made for TV thing they kept postponing in Chicago because every time they were about to show it there was some new development in the John Wayne Gacy case. Actually I’m not sure they ever wound up showing it.
Never heard of this show.
How typical to villainize corporate America when the real evil is big govt. Typical hollywood with tired old plotlines
Me too. Also the hackneyed cliche of all businesses being evil. But mostly it was boring.
Make a million hours of stories and some of them are bound to resonate. There were 297 scripted “TV” (a lot actually on the internet, which might or might not be viewed on a TV) shows last year, the most ever, averaging over 13 episodes each. That is a lot of opportunity for accidental prediction.
Well darn. It’s probably one of the strangest series I’ve seen on TV, but I keep watching it.
They're really just branches of thee same organism.
“As bad as” or “similar in concept,” anything goes in popular culture, and sick minds feel the need to live it out. My wife and I are pretty much down to watching old movies from the 40’s and 50’s. And of course sports. Commercials are zapped.
Same here.
I got about 2/3 through the first episode and went channel surfing.
I too watched someo early episodes, until they turned it into a homo-promo.
The fact that they’re postponing showing it shows that it isn’t anything goes. In a dramatic show people get killed. Happens all the time. Even in those movies from the 40s and 50s, that’s the noir era, lots of deaths, lots of sex. But if in your show your victim is a TV news person doing a remote, even if you show NOTHING it would be rude to show that episode 24 hours after a TV news person doing a remote got killed live on the air. That’s not anything goes, that’s responsible and sensitive.
A homo-promo? The storyline goes out of its way to paint the homo as a homicidal maniac, and to comment in front of said homicidal homosexual that climbers were going gay to get ahead at Apple.
We watching the same series?
Is this the show with the bug-eyed guy?
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