AT&T’s Stephen King adaptation Mr. Mercedes is set to get the VR escape room treatment this Sunday with the release of Mr. Mercedes: Lair Escape for HTC Vive. Created by VR Playhouse, Double A Labs, and AT&T, Mr. Mercedes: Lair Escape will put players into the basement of Brady Hartsfield, and challenge you to solve various puzzles in […]
Jack Huston and Maximiliano Hernandez cast in Mr. Mercedes season 2
With production on the second series of Mr. Mercedes set to get underway in South Carolina next month, Deadline is reporting that Jack Huston (Ben-Hur) and Maximiliano Hernandez (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) have joined the cast of the Stephen King adaptation. The second season will continue its adaptation of King’s Bill Hodges Trilogy – […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Jibber-Jibber Chicken Dinner’
Martin Carr reviews the Mr. Mercedes season 1 finale… As far as finales go this is strong stuff held together by grizzly dream sequences, psychotic Professor X wannabes and some nasty knife work. We get to see placebo pills being popped, Hodges floating around unconvinced by the death of his arch nemesis while a half […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Ice Cream, You Scream, We All Scream’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Mr. Mercedes… There are whispers around the campfire that David E Kelley might be in contention for an Emmy award. Mr. Mercedes has made a lot of noise with the focus on character, slow burn approach and uncompromising attitude towards its source material. Harry Treadaway and Brendan Gleeson […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 8 Review – ‘From the Ashes’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Mr. Mercedes… Karma has a way of coming back and biting you in the arse. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you otherwise beware the consequences. Words Brady Hartsfield should heed in future before he decides to go around blowing people up. He reminds […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Willow Lake’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Mr. Mercedes… Harry Treadaway lurks under the bed of your collective unconscious hacking into those thoughts we prefer people keep to themselves. Brady Hartsfield is the culmination of sexual congress, incestuous transgressions and borderline foster care upbringing. Blessed with a high IQ, limited social skills and a psychotic […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘People in the Rain’
Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Mr. Mercedes… Darkness seeps between the cracks ushering in another kink this week as back story, dark fantasy and parental manipulation are all on show. Weakness in character is always more interesting than strength just as friction represents more entertainment than serenity. It becomes most watchable when the […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Suicide Hour’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Mr. Mercedes… This slowly gets under your skin. Working its way through open pores, seeping into sweat glands, tear ducts and every open orifice. Between the high-tech surveillance talk, on-line harassment and seedy conversations over webcam there are darker elements at play. Alcoholics, liars, incestuous couples and torture […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Gods Who Fall’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Mr. Mercedes… There are no blood and guts, nothing particularly thrilling or even risky this week in Mr. Mercedes. Instead the episode is riddled with backstory, character expansion and a little white supremacist laptop baiting. Dennis Lehane of Shutter Island fame wrote the teleplay for ‘Gods Who Fall’ […]
Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Cloudy, with a Chance of Mayhem’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Mr. Mercedes… Flashbacks of childhood trauma, alternative methods of getting over migraines and a plethora of unbalanced individuals makes up Mr. Mercedes again this week. As each episode goes by it becomes more apparent that no one here is completely squeaky clean. Brady leans on Hodges, widower Ida […]
