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Brendan Gleeson is winning rave reviews in the US for his starring role in Stephen King's new TV show
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IF STEPHEN KING is involved, you can be pretty sure a TV show or movie is going to be psychologically ~interesting~.
And so it is with Mr Mercedes that started in the States this week. It stars Brendan Gleeson (in his first major American TV series) as retired detective Bill Hodges, an ex-cop who never got over one particularly gruesome unsolved case involving multiple murder by speeding Mercedes-Benz.
Who casually drives around with a clown mask on
GREAT
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The show is based on the 2014 novel by King, and the 10 episode series just began on the Audience Network.
Collider says, in its review of the first episode, that there aren’t as many ghosts as some other King works but it’s dark enough nonetheless:
Harry Treadway shares the lead billing with Gleeson, and the pair are well matched:
High praise.
And it turns out that Stephen King – who’s executive producer on the show – had Brendan in mind to play Hodges all along
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, fellow EP David E Kelley was asked how he got a big name like Gleeson on board:
The first episode is said to be a little slow, but with 10 epsiodes in total they have plenty of time to pick up the pace, as per TVWeb’s review:
No word on it reaching Ireland yet, but with names like Stephen King and Brendan Gleeson all over it it’ll surely be available in full somewhere in the future.
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