Rami Malek was not completely unknown before Mr. Robot. He was featured in HBO's The Pacific miniseries and had bit parts in the Twilight and Night at the Museum movies. Mr. Robot is certainly his biggest and most important role. The USA Network series
Mozart in the Jungle Amazon. One of the advantages of this new streaming era is that you can find something wonderful to watch pretty much anytime, including in what used to be a late-year dead zone. Today, that means the entire second season of one of
New Show – We've been very lucky over the past year to get some great new shows across all of television, and we're grateful for that. Otherwise, having this Best New Show category for the CarterMatt Awards would be rather ho-hum, since we'd be jamming
1) Mr. Robot (USA) – On the surface, this series is a snaky, unpredictable drama about a disturbed hacker attempting to break the world's biggest corporation. But Rami Malek's performance as hacker Elliot Alderson is a masterpiece of detached charm.
New Show – We've been very lucky over the past year to get some great new shows across all of television, and we're grateful for that. Otherwise, having this Best New Show category for the CarterMatt Awards would be rather ho-hum, since we'd be jamming