‘Mr. Robot’ season 2 spoilers: What’s the subject matter being tackled next?

The second season of “Mr. Robot” is coming to USA later this summer, and of course one of the primary themes will be the further exploration of Elliot as a character; however, to go along with that there will be some further plots that are timely and explore some key issues happening in the world.

One of them certainly has an ironic tinge to it. Speaking per Deadline while at SXSW, creator Sam Esmail had the following tinge to it:

“What’s weird is that we were really going into [Season 2] talking about encryption and privacy … And then this whole thing with Apple and [CEO] Tim Cook happened.”

Esmail said that personally, he is on Apple’s side when it comes to the company being able to have its own autonomy when it comes to its products and being able to control what some sort of information it passes along to the government. Esmail did say that he wants to show almost every side of this issue if at all possible:

“[If] you keep breaking [the issue] down in a credible way and if you show both sides so that the audience can understand the debate, hopefully it gets people interested and invested in wanting to learn more about it. If our show contributes to that conversation, brings that conversation up again, [then I am happy].”

We’ll see what happens when the show premieres, but it feels like the series will be able to broach these subjects. After all, it has been able to do so rather effectively on several occasions in the past already. Now, the main goal will just be making sure to keep this going.