Mr. Mercedes

I rated this originally back before I was writing reviews on this site so this is from memory as best as I can recall. While I have
never read the books they are on my to read list however from various articles and other sites this seems to have major changes from
the original material. I remember liking season 1 ok but it had some issues with pacing and general writing but overall good enough
that I continued on with season 2. I do remember season 2 was a step down and really disliked season 3. There continued to be
very slow pacing with lots of seeming pointless drawn out scenes to extend the series and the writing got worse as the seasons went
on. There is a very annoying loud elderly female next door neighbor that takes up a good amount of the screen time that I don't believe was
in the books. The entire subplot seems pointless and just there to add a feminist type female character. There is a prominent black character named Jerome that I do believe is from the books so not really woke unless you consider that a woke holdover from the books.
The biggest one for me was the character of Lou who has a different name and a minor character in the books. Here Lou is a gender fluid
lesbian and has been given a much larger role in the show. She is the typical angry, violent lesbian who is always the victim of
homophobia. She is a grating annoying character. I won't spoil anything but there is a big unrealistic woke moment in season 2 with
Lou and the Killer that I believe is also not from the books. Like I said this is from memory from 3 years ago so if I got anything
wrong here leave a comment below.