Mr. Robot is an American drama–thriller television series created by Sam Esmail. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who has social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. Alderson is recruited by an insurrectionary anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", played by Christian Slater, to join a group of hacktivists. The group aims to cancel all debts by attacking the large conglomerate E Corp.
The pilot premiered on multiple online and video on demand services on May 27, 2015.[1] During the course of the series, 45 episodes of Mr. Robot aired over four seasons, between June 24, 2015, and December 22, 2019.