‘Mr. Mercedes’ season 3: Ending on an upbeat note

Season 2 of the crime drama, Mr Mercedes, ended with Lou Linklatter shooting Brady Hartsfield in the head. Based on Stephen King’s crime novel trilogy featuring retired police detective Bill Hodges, Audience Network’s Mr Mercedes is a good enough reason to subscribe to SonyLiv. The first season based on King’s 2014 novel, Mr Mercedes, told the story of Hodges’ guilt at not being able to crack the case of a man who drove a Mercedes into a crowd of people waiting at job fair, killing 16 people and effectively crushing hope in Brighton, Ohio. With Lou’s trial forming an important strand in the third season, though dead, Hartsfield has an important part to play. Flies in his eyes Though the character of Rothstein is said to be an amalgamation of John Updike, Philip Roth, and J. D. Salinger, he seems to have echoes of Joseph Heller, which could be because the main character, Jimmy Gold brings to mind Julius Gold from Heller’s Good as Gold and Jimmy going into advertising reminds one of Heller’s Something Happened, which might be where Yossarian ended after taking that giant leap in Catch 22.