Mr. Mercedes

This is a great series, and a decent adaptation of the novel to boot (unlike the dreadful "Under the Dome and just plain awful "The Mist." Ugh!). Nice to see an "uncensored" King series with the training wheels off so it can be truer to the source, but in addition it's very well written, perfectly cast, with great performances, and really, really twisted.

Excellent season. Excellent show. Definitely better than a lot of the crap the networks are producing. Take the time and watch a well crafted crime drama. You’ll be happy you did.

We really enjoyed this series! Great characters, intriguing storyline!

Finally, a Stephen King´s adaptation that doesnt seem like trash. Hope i´m not wrong yet.

It's overwhelming how many great (or at least good) TV shows there are nowadays. Even an obscure channel like this can produce some quality content like this.

Each season better than the previous, good watch

- Story 2/5
- Characters 2/5
- Depth 3/5
- Cast 4/5
- Artistry 2/5

i don't get the high puntuation on this one; like nothing happens on this show. The psychopath doesn't seem so psycho except for the first scene.

im done. fuck me up the ass (hodges).

ok ... first... if you know the books.... dont watch the series. if you dont know the books... maybe you can try. i read the books, was was looking forward to watch the series... and im very disappointed.

but there is one good thing: the actors: hodges, holly, jerome.... they fit. they fit very good. brady is ok - in my head is more a paul dano
and i know - stephen king books are in many ways hard to make movies from it. but must of the time because the story, the horror is to "extrem". but not here, these are very basic crime-books. nothing extraordinary.

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book 1 - series 1 - was fine. close to the book. sure, some things are different (ida, his wife) - but overall fine. even the art-gallery instead of the concert is ok. brady stabbing lou... ok... why not.
book 3 - series 2 - i get it why they changed - to keep the brady-story alive. but why killing pete? why montez? why changing the way brady interacts with dr z? oh sorry, there is no dr z. because brady never took control over babineau. the whole zappit-thing was the main-thing in the book. the reason they called z-boy and dr z. brady wanted. brady wanted control over the people from the concert (or art gallery). he tried the get in there brain and commit suicide. nothing was in the series. in the end - brady takes over babineau, kills his body in drives to the cabin - hodges follows for the showdown. but no - brady comes back alive. hunts babineau - gets arrestet and killed from lou in the trail. complete diffrent
book 2 - series 3 - a lot of new charakter. only the baseline - like 10% are from the books. charakters are complete differten from the books (bellamy is a badass, not such a wuss). and in the books - lou was not in this one. there is no trail. there is no finkelstein for holly[/spoiler]


im angry. such a good story, such good actors. and then making this bullshit out of it. they changed to much. took 10% maybe 20% - the rest is something else. the books are very good - the series is not.

Based on the first episode, I'm confident this will be a great watch. The book is one of King's best.