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’ll credit them for postponing it. Anything goes, but not all the time. And I certainly don’t endorse all films from the 40’s and 50’s. Noir was a small subset. My contention remains: modern entertainment on TV, for the most part, will rot your brain. That goes double for sitcoms. Mrs. Genoa and I are glad we are mostly weaned from the channel-surfing habit.
Sturgeons law always applies. 90% of everything is crap. Of course the fun part with the modern day is there’s so much being made that the 10% that’s not crap is a lot of stuff.
They’re really just branches of thee same organism.
too bad hollywood only makes big corporate as evil in plots
“Nice Boat ...”
I am reviving this old thread.
Season 2 had my on the floor laughing because the FBI was in the process of cracking the case!
The writers obviously wrote the episode before the Hillary email fiasco!
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