Mr. Mercedes

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Season 1
Season #: 3, 2, 1
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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 75 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 63 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 75
  3. Negative: 8 out of 75
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  1. Ittiaces
    Oct 15, 2017
    9
    A fantastic show superbly cast and well put together as a whole. Brendan Gleeson is terrific as the retired police detective who refuses to let his last murder case go unsolved. Harry Treadaway is terrifying as the maternally abused perpetrator torturing his remaining victims. There are many great performances and colourful characters created here. The script is snappy and well pacedA fantastic show superbly cast and well put together as a whole. Brendan Gleeson is terrific as the retired police detective who refuses to let his last murder case go unsolved. Harry Treadaway is terrifying as the maternally abused perpetrator torturing his remaining victims. There are many great performances and colourful characters created here. The script is snappy and well paced throughout. Being unfamiliar with the source material I can't say whether or not it's a just adaptation of the Stephen King novel but thought it was an excellent piece of storytelling in its own right. I also loved the soundtrack over the opening credits each week which show Gleeson struggling to get out of bed to face what could be another disaster of a day. Excellently done, it certainly deserves a viewing.… Expand
  2. Elisamorgan1
    Aug 22, 2018
    10
    I've watched this series over and over again. I enjoy all the Easter eggs hidden within the scenes. Watch carefully and you will see them especially in the opening sequences. This show is delightful to watch and the character choices are excellent.
  3. JorgeLestre
    Aug 12, 2017
    9
    Although there is nothing particularly original in Mr. Mercedes, Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway's performances up the game to a higher place. It's thrilling, captivating and nervewrecking sometimes, which makes it enjoyable in the long run.
  4. Willmoy
    Aug 18, 2017
    8
    I have quite enjoyed the first two episodes of the series. It gives you insight into both the supposed protagonist's and antagonist's life. I say supposed because I have a gut feeling there's a twist to it. I haven't read the book, so I don't know.

    It does a good job of leaving one with the feeling that there's more going on than meets the eye. I could be all wet, but it's a suspicion    I have quite enjoyed the first two episodes of the series. It gives you insight into both the supposed protagonist's and antagonist's life. I say supposed because I have a gut feeling there's a twist to it. I haven't read the book, so I don't know.

    It does a good job of leaving one with the feeling that there's more going on than meets the eye. I could be all wet, but it's a suspicion that I have.

    It has been very entertaining so far.    … Expand
  5. Shasta09
    Sep 23, 2017
    2
    I really wish they would stick to the original story instead of re-writing it. SK is an amazing novelist and it's disappointing to see his work so changed.
  6. BillJustBill
    Aug 12, 2017
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I haven't read the Stephen King book on which this is based, or even read about it, so this review is of just the tv show. Watched the pilot of this last night. It was difficult to tell from this one episode how good the show might be, since this first hour was devoted to setting things up. What I can say is that the show is typically for the current state of U.S. movies and TV, perfectly produced, cast, etc. so there's nothing to complain of there. Based on the first hour (and the previews they showed at the end, just quick blips of scenes), it certainly appears that we know who the villain is already. Is this going to be good or bad for the story? Are we being misled?
    On the one hand, the characters are unusually quirky for tv, and yet on the other they are clearly designed for the story (which, truth be told, they have to be in order for the story to work, but it shouldn't be too obvious, should it?), but on the other hand they don't seem all that interesting in and of themselves. One thing that's different from typical network fare is that (so far at least) none of the female characters are outstanding beauties in the stereotypical sense, and none of the men are exactly runway models either, though I guess they would fall into the classification of "acceptable" (hard for me, a guy, to judge what the ladies might find attractive--I've never understood how women find anything at all attractive about men [if I were a woman I'd only date other women, but that's me]. Whew! sorry for that run-on sentence!
    The main problem with this first episode is that we (the viewers) know what's going to happen in the major points long before the beats occur. This is true right from the beginning. This is unlike a show like "The Good Wife" (in my opinion one of the best that's ever been done (Michelle and Robert King know more about "story" than anyone else working, IMHO), where the twists come in almost every scene. So Mr. Mercedes has a certain plodding quality to the story telling. Some people will like this. They prefer the unhurried pace and maybe aren't that good at seeing ahead or noticing story elements that are somewhat hackneyed, like the retired detective whose life is empty and needs a mission in order to rejuvenate his interest in life and his fellow man/person. So the show is not "Snowfall" and it's not "I'm Dying Up Here", two newish shows that are certainly 10s. But there are other nights of the week, and we've got to watch something, don't we? (Don't we?) So give it a try, you might find it really good or you might find it on the so-so side.    … Expand
  7. Beowulf4862
    Sep 2, 2017
    8
    As others have noted the acting in MM is excellent. The production values are terrific and I'm enjoying the series so far. About that "so far": I'm a little concerned about the length; ten episodes for this material seems like a lot and I already sense a little padding here and there. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
  8. eagleeyeviking
    Sep 26, 2017
    8
    AT&T’s Mr. Mercedes ensnares the vivid horror and apprehensive vibe, but also a bit of the ponderous plotting and genre trappings of the Stephen King novel it adapts. A tight script and magnetic performances lifts it though.
  9. eva3si0n
    Feb 16, 2018
    8
    Excellent series the detective, the atmosphere of King is perfectly transferred. The most important in series - each character is perfectly stated. The only thing that disappoints - the murderer is known almost at once. And a suspense as it is impossible. And deytsvy it is a little tightened, 8 series would be better.
  10. TalulaGrey
    Nov 4, 2017
    5
    I have just finished this series and I was hoping for more, or rather, I wanted it to be better. The story is nothing you haven't seen before so there are no surprises. You see everything coming and you know, or at least have an idea of what's coming next as far as the story goes.

    The acting is fine although I thought that Harry Treadaway did an outstanding job as Brady Hartsfield, and    I have just finished this series and I was hoping for more, or rather, I wanted it to be better. The story is nothing you haven't seen before so there are no surprises. You see everything coming and you know, or at least have an idea of what's coming next as far as the story goes.

    The acting is fine although I thought that Harry Treadaway did an outstanding job as Brady Hartsfield, and Brendan Gleeson was very good as Bill Hodges. In fact there were so many amazing actors, I wondered why it wasn't better. Right, the script. Actors can only do what they can with the script they are given [heavy sigh].

    This is a slow moving series and to be perfectly honest it could have been done in six-episodes rather than the 10-episodes we were given. The music was excellent and got to hear stuff I haven't heard in a long time. In fact, I can say that the music helped with the lousy editing and camera-work.

    If you are into gore, incest, and like things moving at a slow, leisurely pace this may be for you.    … Expand
  11. jaasieljunior
    Mar 5, 2018
    9
    É uma das melhores adaptações para TV dos livros de Stephen King. você fica envolvido com a história e com a extrema vontade de maratonar sem parar, mesmo que a série tenha em média 52 minutos por episódio. Violenta,cruel e agonizante.

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71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Collider
    Reviewed by: Haleigh Foutch
    Aug 9, 2017
    80
    Mr. Mercedes‘ pacing likely won’t do the series any favors with the weekly crowd, but stick with it and you’ll find a fascinating spin on genre conventions packed to the brim with smart character drama and uniformly excellent performances.
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  2. The Huffington Post
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Aug 9, 2017
    70
    Gleeson does a first-rate job with a character we’ve seen before, the tormented cop who plunges into a battle where he’s seemingly outflanked and outgunned. Treadaway is suitably troubling as a kid who represses such waves of rage and frustration that we don’t doubt it could explode somewhere. That the causes of his rage play as clichés doesn’t make him less menacing, though it makes the larger story less than subtle. Call it a solid campfire yarn.
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  3. Yahoo TV
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Aug 9, 2017
    80
    Kelley has made Janey Patterson, as played by Mary-Louise Parker, into a romantic interest for Hodges. This fix is not only needless--that’s one reason Taylor’s Ida exists, as she did in King’s novel: to provide Hodges with some intimate comfort--but it seems both less believable. ... Putting that aside, Mr. Mercedes is awfully good.
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