i have such a rage boner for this show. the hacking parts are pretty stupid (as in unrealistic, despite the Arts-degree-wielding techie-journalist claims to the contrary) and there is too much divergence between Eliott hacking his neighbour's e-mail / social media accounts (wetware hacking) and the STUXNET-type shit he's dragged into. it's basically akin to the notion of a plumber being a crack electrician who is recruited to design an electrical grid.
what drives me nuts about Mr. Robot is how hard it pretends to be about hacking but it has absolutely fuck-all to do with hackers. Intead of revelling in hacker culture, it marginalizes the culture and instead uses hacking as a shitty plot device to enable an even shittier made-for-network-TV action plot replete with a cast of offensively cliche characters. The cherry on top is the remarkably PC, neoliberal moral code of the main character (pandering) which in all likelihood makes him all the more loathesome to anyone who might actually resemble a real-life Eliott.