This is big-time entertainment.

Fans of Mr. King's Bill Hodges Trilogy might wonder how a mostly internal cat-and-mouse game between Brady and Bill, a retired police detective with too much time (and drink) on his hands, is played out over 10 episodes. Very well, as it happens, and to chilling effect.

Mr. Mercedes is premium-unleaded nightmare fuel right out of the gate, without even a touch of the strange or supernatural.

Mr. Mercedes isn't prestige-class pulp, but it's a quality star vehicle fueled with enough poignancy to make it worth the ride. [11 Aug 2017, p.46]

It’s familiar stuff that Kelley could adapt in his sleep--The Practice never seemed to run out of charismatic serial killers who always managed to hoodwink poor stupid Bobby Donnell until after he was suckered into getting them an acquittal--but the details, and the performances, are all well-drawn enough to make it a pleasing rendition of this classic rock tune.

It’s smartly paced, with stellar performances and assured direction, and yet it feels curiously stodgy, with the emotional beats never landing quite hard enough and the action and humor scattershot.

Mr. Mercedes comes off as a plodding compendium of serial-killer and cop cliches, all conveyed via an unrelentingly dour tone and almost suffocating aesthetic of drab greens, blacks and browns.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.