In the end, Bill was recovering from a heart attack and Brady was all but dead after his skull ended up on the wrong side of Holly's ( Justine Lupe) lucky dog statuette.
Last season's finale ended with a somewhat anticlimactic showdown between the two men after a narrowly-thwarted attack on a local arts fair. Mercedes - a nickname he earns by plowing a car through a crowded job fair in the premiere episode - the show's first season triumphed by prioritizing character drama and psychological thrills over easy scares, and always keeping the scares it did use grounded.īy contrast, Season 2 makes bold strides into new genres, embracing its Stephen King roots to the fullest, with a story that introduces medical horror and a whiff of the supernatural in the continued saga of Bill Hodges and Brady Hartsfield. A contained, tightly-wound game of cat-and-mouse between Brendan Gleeson's grumbling good guy cop Bill Hodges and Harry Treadaway's sneering serial killer Brady Hartsfield, aka Mr.
Mercedes was one of the finest Stephen King adaptations to hit the screen this side of Frank Darabont.
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