Season 3, Episode 8, ‘eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko’

On Wednesday morning the president of the United States retweeted a series of Islamophobic videos.

On Wednesday night a persecuted character in “Mr. Robot” noted: “This country now blames Muslims for everything. There’s no room for us here anymore.”

That this episode was produced months before President Trump offered his latest offense to Muslims is yet another example of the show’s uncanny ability to anticipate cultural currents. It also demonstrates that anti-Muslim sentiment is a sadly evergreen theme to explore on TV, and has only gotten more so amid the Trump Administration’s attempted travel bans and other insults and provocations.

An Egyptian American who grew up in a Muslim family, Sam Esmail has said his heritage informs his work mostly by helping him relate to outsiders. But xenophobia has become a more prominent theme this season — along with Mr. Esmail’s contempt for the president — culminating in the Dark Army’s brutal scapegoating of Trenton and Mobley as hacker terrorists with Iranian loyalties last week.

This week’s exploration of the aftermath, both for Elliot and for Trenton and Mobley’s families, brought the show’s most explicit depiction of the Muslim experience in America. The episode, written by Mr. Esmail, was uncommonly tender and also a little odd (more on that later) as Elliot turned a corner — and perhaps began to synthesize his two halves — with the help of Trenton’s little brother, Mohammed.