ELLIOT (V.O.)
I’m good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.
—MR. ROBOTBY WRITER/CREATOR/SHOWRUNNER/DIRECTORSAM ESMAIL
Chapter 3
Trust Me
The Long Con On-Demand—From The Riches to Sneaky Pete, Patriot, The Americans and More
In her book The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time,1 Maria Konnikova, a psychologist and contributor to The New Yorker, makes the overarching point about the dark art of the scam: People are instinctively trusting. “Size someone up well, and you can sell them anything.” It’s as true of the storefront psychic who takes advantage of the gullible (Shut Eye on Hulu) as of the cult leader who exploits lost souls (The Path, also on Hulu).
The truth is, we all lie, in one form or another, every ...
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