Not only is the cat-and-mouse game played by Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway dynamite, but the show also features Justine Lupe as Holly Gibney (the young woman who eventually becomes Bill Hodges’ business partner) and it’s impossible not to love her interpretation of the character – which is wholly different than Cynthia Erivo’s version featured in HBO’s The Outsider (which is based on Stephen King’s spin-off novel from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy).
Though Stephen King obviously has a long history of seeing his books/short stories adapted for television, Mr. Mercedes is sincerely one of the best that we’ve seen, and hopefully it will start to get more of the attention that it deserves while living on Peacock.