Sam Esmail delves into Mr. Robot's format-shattering episode

The Hollywood Reporter

"When we play with format, we don't start by stipulating, 'This is the episode where we must do X, Y and Z,'" Esmail tells The Hollywood Reporter. "We start making the episode, and then we find our way in terms of how to tell the story. When we started breaking the episode, we knew this was going to be the big hack on Virtual Realty."