“As an actor, my part of the process was definitely not to judge him. His serial killer is tightly wound, vindictive, awkward, clever, a victim of abuse, a loner and filled with rage. I just binged it and, in a dark way, just fell in love with the character and the world.”

Treadway says one of his most powerful memories is watching King’s “The Shining” with Jack Nicholson and called King’s trilogy “such a page-turner. Mercedes” and calls him “a unique, brilliantly drawn, complicated character.” He calls the story “electric.” The series was filmed in Charleston, South Carolina, which stood in for Ohio.Įnglish actor Treadway, who has played a genius psychopath in “Penny Dreadful,” takes on the serial killer in “Mr. In addition to Gleeson, the cast includes Harry Treadaway, Kelly Lynch, Jharrel Jerome, Mary-Louise Parker, Holland Taylor, Breeda Wool and Nancy Travis. The show’s most recent outing, 2019’s Season 3, will arrive on a date to be announced. Mercedes” will be bingeable on Peacock starting on October 15. “Even though they’re monstrous people doing monstrous things, they are not, quote-unquote, boogeyman monsters.” “My intention was always to do a character driven, scary show about the monster inside these people instead of the monster outside the people,” says Bender. Kelley and starring Brendan Gleeson - is based on Stephen King’s best-selling Bill Hodges trilogy and follows a retired, ornery detective tormented by a seriously troubled serial killer who announces himself by mowing down dozens of people in line for a job fair in a stolen Mercedes. The pitch-dark series - adapted by David E. “Hopefully it’s going to get the audience it’s always deserved.” And that was enormously frustrating,” says director Jack Bender. The crime series gets another life this month after NBC’s Peacock streaming service acquired it. Mercedes” started life in 2017 as a broadcast offering on the AT&T-owned, DirecTV-exclusive Audience Network, only to be left marooned with an uncertain future after the obscure channel was shut down. One of Stephen King’s most creepy and tense stories was hiding in plain sight.(Wikimedia Commons) One of Stephen King’s most creepy and tense stories was hiding in plain sight.

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