In a way we already said goodbye to “Mr. Robot,” or at least “Mr. Robot” as we knew it. The creator, writer and director Sam Esmail did not choose to end his series as a techno-thriller, or a deadly game of cat and mouse, or a science-fiction mind-bender, or a work of political agitprop. He — and his luminous cast, particularly Rami Malek and Carly Chaikin as Elliot and Darlene — ended it as an exploration of an alienated, mentally ill young man.

Elliot’s psychological coping mechanisms may have been … baroque, to say the least. But his underlying problems, from the childhood abuse to his fury at the condition of the world, are far from unique. Perhaps you share one, or both.

In the end, the most tantalizing fantasy “Mr. Robot” places before us isn’t a reckoning with the upper class or the creation of an alternate reality, it’s the possibility of reintegrating our shattered selves and healing the breaches caused by the people, and the system, that have hurt us. No, I’m not fully convinced by Elliot’s concluding declaration that standing our ground and refusing to change who we are is sufficient for changing the world for the better. I’m not even sure that it’s sufficient for changing our individual lives for the better.

But as another paranoid TV thriller once put it, I want to believe. And for making me want to believe, “Mr. Robot” has my thanks.