By now, you’re probably either watching Mr. Robot, or you’ve heard so many good things about it that you’ve added it to your “Must Watch” list. Brogan Morris of Paste Magazine provided an in-depth comparison of the show to David Fincher’s 1999 film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, Fight Club, touching on the fact that the show mirrors several of Fincher’s other films, and his comparison strikes a chord as to why this new series has gained such popularity and so quickly.

However, to paraphrase a line from John Hughes’ She’s Having a Baby, Morris misses the target but hits the tree.

Mr. Robot peppers in elements familiar to Fincher fans, such as its dark atmosphere and it’s score, the latter of which is similar to the “beautiful music” that Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor made with composer Atticus Finch on the last three of Fincher’s films.

Additionally, Mr. Robot is tech-savvy (as one would expect from its title), like Fincher’s equally obvious The Social Network and, perhaps less obvious, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Mr. Robot offers a hint of the lunacy of Gone Girl mixed with what Morris calls the “defeated existentialism” of the criminally underrated The Game.

While fans of Mr. Robot already picked up on its glaring similarity to Fight Club by the time the second-act twist rolled around in its first season, the similarities between these two projects don’t stop at just that twist. Mr. Robot‘s narrative style, like Fight Club, effortlessly combines cynicism and criticism and is provided by someone who isn’t all he appears to be at first glance. Here, Eliot (Rami Malek) is similar to Edward Norton’s Narrator in that they are both fed up with living their lone-wolf lives under the corporate thumb, but neither man is sure how to effect change.

Additionally, both the Narrator and Eliot have “it’s complicated” romantic relationships, as well as what Morris calls “charismatic revolutionaries” as sidekicks. And, semi-spoiler alert, they also both suffer from a mental illness. Morris, however, goes one step further and says that not only does Mr. Robot mimic Fight Club, but that it even does it better, making Mr. Robot essentially a “Fight Club 2.0.” If you listen, you can almost hear the sound of the barrage of angry commenters, typing away at their hate mail.

Buzzfeed’s Ariana Lange also compares the two projects, though she contests that while Mr. Robot treats women with respect, Fight Club “hated” them. First, hate is a strong word. Second, Fight Club has been described as being either “homoerotic” (not a huge stretch, considering the sexuality of its source material’s author) or “misogynistic,” which seems like it’s all about perspective when determining which side to choose.

When you think of Fight Club‘s female characters, though, Marla Singer is the most prominent, and while she may seem strange or even like kind of a bitch at times, her actions take on a new and understandable meaning once when you’ve watched the film to its end and you realize where she’s coming from.

To expand even further, it feels that while Mr. Robot actually likes its characters, Fight Club exploits them. His examples are “Bitch Tits” Bob who is, throughout the film, treated more like a cartoon, or the Narrator’s mental illness, which is treated more like a joke than something that needs to be seriously addressed. Mr. Robot handles its problems maturely, while Fight Club suffers from a “poor me” complex dredged up by middle-class males who seem to be otherwise privileged and self-entitled.

Speaking of man-children, while Fight Club is condescending, telling us all how much we suck, Mr. Robot treats its viewers like equals, not resorting to the over-exposition common to so many other series because it believes its audience is smart enough to understand its shop talk and complex plot lines.

Fight Club seems “hypocritical” in that it admonishes us for succumbing to corporate branding, yet peppers in product placements for companies like BMW, IKEA, and Apple. He also praises Mr. Robot for being able to share in the corporate hatred while keeping things generic. Though maybe, Fight Club‘s plethora of brand-name products was an attempt to show us just how deeply corporations infiltrate our lives and to satirize that fact. Why else would the filmmakers make the concerted effort of making sure there was a cup of Starbucks coffee in every scene? While Starbucks probably enjoyed the free advertising, surely that wasn’t the only inspiration.

Even more differences between Fight Club and Mr. Robot include: the former celebrates violence, while the latter abhors it; the former’s narrator pales in comparison to the latter’s; and the latter is innovative in its use of the voice-over technique.

Though, both want to alert the people of the world to the destruction that can come from their own hands and to save them before those events can play out. Fight Club arguably achieves this goal in more of a fraternity prank sort of way, while Mr. Robot is like the college graduate who learned from his mistakes. But, in the end, does it really matter how humanity finally wakes up and saves itself, or just that it does?