‘Mr Mercedes’ looking worryingly low on gas

ANTICIPATION is a great thing. But sometimes it’s as good as it gets. It seems it might be that way with the second series of ‘Mr Mercedes’, currently on RTÉ.

Written by Stephen King with Brendan Gleeson very much in mind, the original was a gripping, if quirky and occasionally tickling, masterpiece.

I’m only an episode into the sequel, so too early to make a definitive call. But it appears that it hasn’t so much jumped the shark as swum the long way around it.

It looks like they have taken a perfectly formed, executed and resolved story arc and brought it back to life just for the sake of it. More padding than plot thus far.

‘House of Cards’ had dealt all its best hands long before Spacey’s disgrace; ‘Stranger Things II’ was just more of the same old shlock and ‘Bloodlines II’, with Sissy Spacek, was ho-hum compared to the original compulsive binge. They just don’t know when to quit, do they?