Rami Malek and Christian Slater on the relevance of ‘Mr. Robot’ at 10: ‘Is technology bridging us, or driving us further apart?’

Mr. Robot was plugged in from the get-go. By the time it premiered on USA Network on June 24, 2015, the pilot episode of the Sam Esmail-masterminded series about a paranoid hacker (Rami Malek) battling a nefarious multinational conglomerate had already been available online for a month, streamed more than 2.6 million times.

“That show was ahead of its time, man,” Christian Slater, who played the eponymous character, recently told Gold Derby, alluding to the current state of Big Brother technology and politics...