History YMMV / MrMercedes

* Tearjerker: In the show, Bill Hodges has his daughter sent to prison in an effort to straighten her out. As he's watching her board the prison bus he's saying 'Don't cry' is he talking to himself or to her.

** Deborah Ann Hartsfield, Brady's mother, crossed it in the reader's eyes when, years before, [[spoiler: she kicked her braindamaged son's firetruck down some stairs, nodded to Brady to kick his brother down the stairs, too, and she then proceeded to ''suffocate'' her son with a pillow, when he survived the fall]].

* Tearjerker: In the show Bill Hodges has his daughter sent to prison in an effort to straighten her out. As he's watching her board the prison bus he's saying 'Don't cry' is he talking to himself or to her.
* TheWoobie: If there's one consensus among the King fandom, it's this: ''everyone'' would give anxious, neurotic, emotionally-abused Holly a hug if they could (and if Holly herself wasn't skittish about being touched).

* EarWorm: The TV adaptation gives us several.
** The opening theme, T. Bone Burnett's "It's Not Too Late". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bL6MJJ2ZKY The wind turns like a dagger...the rain falls like a hammer...]]
** Music/ThePixies' "Here Comes Your Man," which plays during the fourth, ninth, and tenth episodes of the first season.
** The final three episodes of Season 1 also give us two wildly different, but equally catchy versions of the classic spiritual song "This Little Light of Mine," one a mournful folk number that cues over the credits of Episode 8 [[spoiler: after Brady's accidental murder of his mother]], and the other an ethereal choral version that plays [[spoiler: as Hodges collapses of his heart attack and Holly beats Brady nearly to death during the series finale]].

* HarsherInHindsight: This novel has become a ''lot'' harder to read in light of the ongoing epidemic of vehicular terrorism that has sprung up in the wake of its publication. On a less gruesome, but equally tragic note, Creator/AntonYelchin's death in a freak motor accident also comes across as uniquely bizarre when one considers that he was originally slated to play Brady in the miniseries adaptation, with Yelchin's death forcing the showrunners to recast the role to Harry Treadaway.

* HarsherInHindsight: This novel has become a ''lot'' harder to read in light of the epidemic of the ongoing epidemic of vehicular terrorism that has sprung up in the wake of its publication. On a less gruesome, but equally tragic note, Creator/AntonYelchin's death in a freak motor accident also comes across as uniquely bizarre when one considers that he was originally slated to play Brady in the miniseries adaptation, with Yelchin's death forcing the showrunners to recast the role to Harry Treadaway.

* HarsherInHindsight: The novel was written before the Boston Marathon Bombings. King described the similarities as "too creepily close for comfort".
** Likewise watching the footage of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn79ClrnY_0 car running into a crowd]] during the Ferguson, MO riots.
** Similarly, the recent suicide bombers in Paris, at a sold-out concert, make it difficult to read that particular section of the book.
** And now, it must be close to unbearable to read after a madman went on a similar killing spree in Nice on July 15th, 2016. ''With an 18-wheeler''. Killing 84 people and wounding 150 more, thus creating a body count that's '''10 times higher than in the book'''.
** The bombing of an Ariana Grande concert May 22, 2017, causing the deaths of 22 children is frighteningly close to what might have happened had Brady carried out his plan at the end of the book.
** On a less gruesome, but equally tragic note, Creator/AntonYelchin's death in a freak motor accident comes across as uniquely bizarre when one considers that he was originally slated to play Brady in the miniseries adaptation, with Yelchin's death forcing the showrunners to recast the role to Harry Treadaway.

* EarWorm: The series' opening theme, T. Bone Burnett's "It's Not Too Late". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bL6MJJ2ZKY The wind turns like a dagger...the rain falls like a hammer...]]

** On a less gruesome, but equally tragic note, Creator/AntonYelchin's death in a freak motor accident comes across as uniquely bizarre when one considers that he was slated to play the titular antagonist in the book's upcoming miniseries adaptation.

* The bombing of an Ariana Grande concert May 22, 2017, causing the deaths of 22 children is frighteningly close to what might have happened had Brady carried out his plan at the end of the book.