Thoughts about Mr Mercedes

I enjoyed it. I wouldn’t have got through 3 seasons otherwise
it was very grim, in various ways
I read the books, probably at the time they came out in paperback. The time elapsed since then seems to me to be just right to watch a TV adaptation….given my increasingly rubbish memory
it turns out that I can do horror films….as long as I’m watching on a 5" tablet
perhaps I could have a go at Stranger Things
King’s protagonists are typically middle-class white guys about the same age as he is. Consequently, they’ve aged as he has, and as I lave. Like Bill Hodges we must now both be Grumpy Old Men
I shall miss Holly Gibney and Bill Hodges
I think the only thing I’ve seen Brendan Gleeson in before was Harry Potter. He is on my a-bit-rubbish-in-Harry-Potter list (along with Snape, Hagrid and both Dumbledores)…but he was great in this
Morris and Alba are wonderfully scuzzy villains
the bits inside Brady’s head were well done. The show would have struggled had they not been
there seemed to be a few loose ends. Did the young bloke go back to Harvard? Did the other young bloke get prosecuted? What happened to Hodge’s relationship with his ex-wife? But I quite like loose ends. As Rabbi Lionel Blue used to say….it’s a bit like life.
it was nice to hear the Cramps on the soundtrack