Mr. Robot is getting an expanded 12 episode order for its upcoming fourth season but the bittersweet news is that it will be the show’s last. Mr. Robot is set to send with season 4 on the USA Network.
The network-defining series will begin production in the winter in New York for a premiere in 2019, meaning the drama will have been off the air for more than a year when the final season debuts. The fourth season writing schedule was split in two in order to accommodate creator’s Sam Esmail’s work on Amazon’s Julia Roberts limited series Homecoming, which like Mr. Robot is produced by Universal Cable Productions. The Mr. Robot writers’ room was moved to New York where they were poised to finish season four and break all of a potential fifth season. Ultimately, those close to the show decided to increase the order for what is now the fourth and final season of the hacker drama. Sam Esmail had this to say about ending the series:
“Since day one, I’ve been building toward one conclusion — and in breaking the next season of Mr. Robot, I have decided that conclusion is finally here. Everyone on the creative team, including the amazing people at USA and UCP, didn’t want to say goodbye, but we ultimately have too much respect for Elliot’s journey to extend past its inevitable ending. Therefore, season four will serve as the final chapter of the Mr. Robot story. To fans of the show: thank you for the past three years, and I can’t wait to share this exciting final season with you.”
Esmail has always said he had a four or five season plan for the show which makes the decision to end the series unsurprising. Never a ratings breakout — the season three finale wrapped with a series-low 450,000 same-day viewers — Mr. Robot helped USA Network rebrand from its former “Blue Skies” brand of uplifting procedurals to a darker and edgier fare (along the lines of current hits The Sinner, Queen of the South and its upcoming Bourne spinoff Treadstone) in a bid to court millennials. The show is also a huge critical favorite
