I'm a bit the same. It was really enjoyable, and then just bogged down at the end of the first season, with an amazingly trope-ish 'twist'. I think the lead actor is outstanding, being able to convey 'numb at the world' rather than just 'unexpressive/emotionless', but yeah, it's just too slow.
And when push comes to shove, while it's great to see actual tech in action, it doesn't actually matter that much to the story. As long as the characters aren't doing things that actively break immersion (blue ribbon award goes to NCIS having two people type on the same keyboard...), it doesn't matter to me so much if the 'hack' is real or not.
My favorite hacking scene is still from Scorpions (well there are two, the one below and the one where they are hacking a jet, with a RJ45 cable, from a car while landing).
"We need to hack NORAD!"
Guy reaches for keyboard (without touching it), "Done!".
Sarcasm apart, while Mr.Robot has good tech, I got bored by the story line around episode 4 or 5. I think it was just too slow for my taste.
There is a fantastic short (scifi) story about consumption/attention economies taken to their logical conclusion on SomethingAwful (I think), but I can't find it right now.
It's a _super_ tropish twist, but I think that's a knowing choice. There's a great Extra Credits episode (usually a video game analysis show) exploring that theme at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghrI2Vb8u2U
In my mind (though future episodes could prove me wrong), Mr. Robot is taking its favorite tropes from hacker culture, anarchic culture, and corporate culture, and using them to paint an interesting picture of helplessness and instability.
And when push comes to shove, while it's great to see actual tech in action, it doesn't actually matter that much to the story. As long as the characters aren't doing things that actively break immersion (blue ribbon award goes to NCIS having two people type on the same keyboard...), it doesn't matter to me so much if the 'hack' is real or not.