The story then jumps ahead two years and burrows into the life of Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson), a recently retired detective unable to let go of the still unsolved massacre. In a fading Ohio industrial city in the post-crash year of 2009, a driver in a clown mask plows a Mercedes through a crowd of people waiting outside a job fair. Mercedes” is a mystery predicated on an act of extreme carnage. Homes and Dennis Lehane wrote the third and fourth episodes, respectively.)īeing a King story, “Mr. Kelley has some high-class help: the novelists A.M. It may lack King’s intensity, but it holds on to a measure of the author’s dark humor.
Mercedes” has the Kelley hallmarks - snappy dialogue, credible characters, a story that adds up, an overall feeling of polished craftsmanship.
Kelley, who developed the series and wrote the first two episodes. King took leave of supernatural horror (“The Mist”) and fantasy action (the “Dark Tower” books) to try his hand at a more or less traditional detective story.Ī bigger factor, though, is the TV show’s creator, David E. Part of the difference lies in the source material. Mercedes” is probably the most enjoyable, even though - or perhaps because - it’s the least King-like of the productions. Mercedes” begins Wednesday on the Audience Network. A new television adaptation of “The Mist” is playing on Spike, a feature film based on the “Dark Tower” series opened last week and now a 10-episode version of “Mr. It’s always Stephen King season onscreen, but this summer the yield has been particularly abundant.
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