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'Mr. Robot' season 3 to revolve around 'Disintegration,' creator Sam Esmail teases

Mr. Robot (Slater), Elliot (Malek) and Tyler Wellick (Martin Wallstrom) in "Mr. Robot" season 2 finale promo still. | USA Network

"Mr. Robot" may have had a subpar season 2 compared to its groundbreaking debut installment, but the Sam Esmail-created show is pushing forward with a third-year outing that will hopefully have the series on more stable grounds.

In light of that, Esmail looks back on the major story arc of their sophomore offering exploring more depth into the ladies of the show, all of whom have had their respective arcs going on for them. He, alongside some of the cast members of the psychological thriller, recently appeared at a panel at Neuehouse Hollywood talking to a roomful of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) voters which was covered by Deadline.

"Each of them were [sic] alone," the Egyptian-American writer said summing the lives of the major female characters of the show's predicaments. "Darlene had panic attacks, Angela was in a sea of suits, Joanna was without her husband, Dom was lonely; you can't play off anybody's energy in these scenes, rather (the actresses) they had to explore their psyche where they're beside themselves," he continued.

Given the show's presumed goal in telling a more balanced story, attention on show anti-hero Elliot (Rami Malek) somehow got chipped. But Esmail teases that there is a reason for the arc they decided to tread explaining that every season there will be "a different stage of (Elliot's) disorder." And it is Mr. Robot's (Christian Slater) task to gauge him in order to come up with how he needs to treat him at varied times.

"The thing is we never play delusion. Christian (Slater) plays a human with relatable emotion — the fight for existence and survival; he wants to live as much as Elliot. He plays a person," he added.

Obviously, while Esmail refused to spill any specifics of what the future will bring to the now very convoluted narrative that his award-winning series is treading, he hints that a major theme moving forward will be "Disintegration." As to who or what exactly the word will be applicable to remains to be seen but he has previously shared that the Trump-fueled society will play a big hand in season 3. Esmail has made the comment even before the businessman-turned-politician won the recent national elections; so, it will be more interesting to see how Trump's sitting in the White House will affect how the show will mine ideas from his ways.

No official release date for the third season of "Mr. Robot" has been announced, but fans can start expecting new episodes to come sometime in summer of next year. That is if USA Network retains its timeline for the show in the past two seasons.