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) :))

On the one hand I was disappointed that it was so different than the book. King is a master storyteller and rewriting the book is foolish who ever made the changes you are not Steven King. So after much contempations I have decided that it can only help SK sell more books because you have people like me saying the book is better the book is better. On the other hand it was like watching an entirely different story so there is that. All that aside the acting was great and the story was ok for a tv series just the book is better

This was an interesting series and I think it is worth watching. I think it started out amazingly and then lost a little bit of steam. The opening scene of the show is just phenomenal and that is what gripped me and made me want to watch the rest of it. Whoever created the opening scene did a fantastic job. After that, the rest of the show wasn't as good, but it was good enough that I watched until the end and wanted to know what was going to happen. I think the show could have been a little bit better if the main character, Hodges, was a bit more likable. Obviously, they were going for a brash, alcoholic, rude, sort of vibe, which can sometimes make a character kind of lovable, but I don't think it worked here. I just couldn't connect with Hodges at all. The killer was an interesting character, but I felt like they should have given us the chance to get to know him a little bit better. Certain things form his past are kind of just revealed in a nonchalant way and then we don't hear much about it again. I found it weird. If there was a second season of this show, I probably wouldn't watch it. If the season was longer than 10 episodes, I probably wouldn't have kept watching all the way to the end. The series is okay most of the time and is actually riveting from time to time, but it's not great overall.

You have to watch this show if you love crime, character driven, and horror stories. So amazing how much quality they put into it and how amazing the acting is! The cat and mouse game with the two main characters is so interesting and draws you in. Sit down and watch this, it is definitely worth it!