http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/08/mr_robot_on_usa_network_reviewed_the_show_represents_the_new_tv_archetype.html

The unreliable narrator is commonplace in fiction, but not in television. On TV, narration is often used to pull viewers into a familiar blandness, a genre and tone they’ve experienced before. (See Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge, Burn Notice, among many others.) When the narration is more distinct and stylized, with a perspective all its own (see Arrested Development, Jane the Virgin, Pushing Daisies, How I Met Your Mother, among many others), it is still inviting, friendly, and cutely apologetic when it—oops!—misleads an audience.