Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

ok_english_bt Somebody better say it, Audience Network's 'Mr Mercedes' is at best mediocre, and seeing as they're just about to release the second season I should warn you off it. Plodding drama-thriller that picks up slightly towards the end, unconvincing performances (and lines, David E. Kelley ... or is it Stephen King?) by the leads, horror but spread too thinly over the 10 episodes, the whole thing rang untrue to me. And that's the point really, for good drama you need to believe in the characters and the action. For the sake of TV, couldn't they have compressed it into 5 episodes and made the whole thing a bit slicker and faster-moving?Puzzling to see actors of the calibre of Brendan Gleeson and Mary Louise Parker phoning it in. For horror, they pitched it about right with Harry Treadaway as the creepy Mercedes killer, one of the few that seemed to know what they were doing (Justine Lupe's emotionally unstable Holly a relative of one of the victims was also notable, not enough to save the day though). So, is it just bad writing, direction, acting, editing ... who knows, but unless they raise the bar for the next part of the trilogy, serious disappointments all round I would have thought ...PS Just read another review and they're right, the music was alright at least (although the regular use of T-Bone Burnett's 'It's not too late' created the wrong mood for me) :))

kitellis-98121 Despite the staggering number of morons who ruined this show's Amazon rating by giving it one-star reviews due to a missing episode, rather than it being a bad show, it still managed to pop-up on my radar; a small miracle for which I am very grateful, as it is an outstanding piece of television.As serial-killer procedurals go, this is one of the finest I've seen, with strong writing, a talented cast, confident director, and master storyteller Stephen King pulling the strings.It is not perfect. Far from it. But in an overcrowded genre replete with potential potholes, this show managed to avoid most of the common hazards, while remaining generally unpredictable, well-paced, and intriguing. On a few occasions it began to feel a little like the similarly excellent "Dexter", and somewhere around the middle I began to experience unexpected sympathies with the killer, which made me wonder if I should be rooting for him, rather than the retired cop expertly portrayed by the ever likable Brendan Gleeson. But in the nick of time, my own personal leanings toward serial-killer-dom were jogged back to the correct moral course, and the season concluded with a deeply satisfying finale.On a personal note, and with absolutely no exaggeration, this show also achieved something rather remarkable: Literally every single song featured in the entire series, without exception, was one that I absolutely hate. This has never happened before in 43 years of watching films and TV. I wasn't even aware that I hated so many songs, but apparently I do. And since the soundtrack of any film or TV show is at least fifty percent responsible for the viewer's emotional responses to what they're watching, it is even more impressive that I enjoyed the show so much, despite its appalling soundtrack!I'm assuming that this is a one-off series, but if not I can't wait for the next one.

johncarter84 I will confess upfront that I am a lifelong Stephen King Fan ever since I discovered Salem's Lot in the local bookstore in the 70's. In a way that raises my expectations for any adaptation of his work. This I feel nails itfor me Having read the Trilogy, the character of Hodges could have been no one else than Brendon Gleeson The other characters are well chosen and matched my idea of what they would be like. The plot moves very slightly away from the book, as with most adaptations, possibly for visual continuity, maybe economic but whatever reason, for me the changes work. Well done on finally getting an adaptation that i was compelled to binge watch and bring on Season 2

speaktomenow This is an astonishingly badly adapted and incredibly depressing series. It is a massive fail when you consider just how good the source material from Stephen King was. The trilogy of books are amongst the best that Stephen King has ever written. All you needed to do was put those books on the screen. Unfortunately David E Kelly has decided to tinker and tamper and totally destroyed the original source material. All he had to do was work from what was a superb set of stories. And now we have just scraped the surface as to why this is so bad. Now we move on to the casting! Omigod was the casting bad. None of it was going to work if you didn't get Bill Hodges right and unfortunately they did not. They have given him strange quirks like listening to vinyl because all cool characters in movies these days have massive vinyl collections. However this is just not part of who he was in the book. In the book he had no passions, no hobbies, nothing in his life. He was an ex-cop, with no life in retirement, on the verge of suicide. Now he's an avid collector of vinyl records? Sigh.Then we get onto the casting of Mary Louise Parker as Janey. These two together have absolutely no chemistry at all. The casting of each individually was wrong but together to have them interacting as a couple? It is terrible. The casting of Holly is also incredibly wrong, in the books she was older and had very different mental health issues, in the series she's suddenly young, and just seems flighty and a bit compulsive, not at all the character from the book. The casting of Jerome was also incredibly wrong. In the book a much older, hunky football star headed for college, now in the series a young high school-er.It is a mystery what I have left out elements of the original story that were absolutely crucial and added so much richness to the story, and elements they have added are completely irrelevant and useless details. Case in point - where did his female neighbour/love interest come from? Not in the books and not needed at all. Again stick to the source material do not insert extraneous garbage that merely weakens the overall story.When you mix appalling casting, with the terrible treatment of the source material there's no way you were getting a great show. Could have been so great, but I'd instead proof of why David E Kelly should be consigned back to the 1980s and 90s and never let near a TV series ever again.I am always amazed at just how off the reviews and ratings are becoming on Internet movie database. Without a doubt this has to be one of the worst Stephen King adaptations. And yet the reviews and the ratings here are glowing. I guess everyone who worked on the show has signed up to give it 9/10 reviews so that they will get a second series and they'll all get work.All I can tell you is that if you want to read a fantastic trilogy you cannot go past Stephen King's fantastic Mr Mercedes trilogy. However the translation to the screen here proves yet again that is almost impossible to have a good Stephen King book become a great Stephen King series or movie. Avoid watching this at all costs. You can thank me later, I just saved you hours of wasted life.I'm praying they cancel this as soon as possible, and that people choose to read the excellent trilogy of books.