Show creators of Mr. Robot leak season 2 premiere on social media

The U.S. television network USA had the mother of all surprises in stock for fans of its award-winning TV show Mr. Robot.

The full season premiere appeared online, shortly after a masked figure interrupted a live Facebook Q&A with its creators. “You deserve something new, something unexpected, something you’ve never seen before,” the figure said, before playing the episode for people watching live.

The full episode arrived on Twitter soon after, with the show’s official page tweeting a schedule of when it would hit other social networks and online services. Snapchat followed Twitter, before the premiere also hit YouTube and the USA network’s own site.

They didn’t last long, though: the tweets, snaps, and YouTube videos were deleted soon after they were uploaded, giving fans a small window to actually watch the premiere. Mr. Robot’s Twitter account promised that this was “just the beginning,” however, suggesting that there are more stunts coming in keeping with the show’s cybersecurity theme.

So one would ask why this is important for our readership, well, Mr. Robot’s storyline is about  about a young, anti-social computer programmer Elliot who works as a cybersecurity engineer during the day, but at night he is a vigilante hacker. He is recruited by the mysterious leader of an underground group of hackers to join their organization.

Elliot’s task? Help bring down corporate America, including the company he is paid to protect, which presents him with a moral dilemma. Although he works for a corporation, his personal beliefs make it hard to resist the urge to take down the heads of multinational companies that he believes are running — and ruining — the world.