[tps_header]DOPEST portrayal of a character I probably shouldn’t be rooting for: Rami Malek as Elliot Anderson[/tps_header]
How does someone even begin to describe what Rami Malek brings to the role of Elliot Anderson on Mr. Robot? Visualize how Charlie Brown’s crusty buddy, Pig-Pen, walks around in a cloud of stank and then place that cloud over Malek. Now swap out the cloud of stank with an ethereal haze of dopeness particles. The character emanates dopeness. Is Elliot a hero, a villain, a monster or a cautionary tale? Who knows? What we can say for sure is that he is an inarguably compelling character driven by a magnetic and star-making performance. Whether Elliot is taking down child pornographers, framing drug dealers or liberating the free world of debt, he is as fresh and exhilarating of a character as we’ve seen on television in a long time.
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