The sweet scene is interrupted by a car that pulls into the lot and shines its headlights on the people in line. Alas, there are hundreds already there, so he gets in line and chats warmly with a young woman carrying her infant daughter (tough to find 3 a.m. About a decade ago, at the height of the recession, a young man arrives at a community center in a Midwestern city for a job fair at 3 a.m., figuring he'll beat the crowd. The series opens, as the book did, with a shocking act of violence. Kelley ( Boston Legal) has hewed closely to the book, and the 10-episode format allows the story and characters to develop, and the tension to build to a roar. The first four episodes of the TV series made available for review suggest that it will be just as chilling as the novel. That does not keep it from being terrifying. Mercedes is resolutely realistic - one of the few King novels without any supernatural elements. Mercedes is on the opposite end of the King fiction spectrum from the Dark Tower books, which are a colossal feat of world-building and mythic fantasy.
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