‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 adds Aasif Mandvi to its cast

Aasif Mandvi

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Fresh off of having The Brink—which he both wrote for and starred in—un-renewed out from under him by HBO, former The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi is apparently determined to never put all his career eggs in a single basket ever again. Deadline is reporting that Mandvi has just secured recurring parts on two different series, USA’s Mr. Robot and Netflix’s upcoming A Series Of Unfortunate Events, ensuring he’ll never be caught flat-footed by capricious premium cable execs again.

Mandvi will appear as a special agent of some sort on USA’s breakout cyber terror series, which is expected to return for its second season this summer. The character, Jesse, is being described as “a bit of a dog,” which we assume means he’s a lech, and not, for instance, that Mr. Robot’s next big twist is that there are now werewolves running around, hacking computers by the light of the moon.