Mulgrew, Gelman, and Paul join Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

The cast of the third season of the Stephen King-inspired television series Mr. Mercedes has just expanded by three, as it has been announced that Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gelman, and Natalie Paul will all be taking on recurring roles on the show.

The second season of Mr. Mercedes was set 

a year after Brady Hartsfield’s (Harry Treadaway) thwarted attempt to perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton, Ohio. Since the incident, Hartsfield had been hospitalized in a vegetative state. Retired Detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) did his best to move on from his Brady obsession, teaming up with Holly Gibney (Justine Lupe) to open Finders Keepers, a private investigative agency. But when unexplainable occurrences began to affect hospital staff members attending to Brady, Hodges was haunted by the feeling that Brady was somehow responsible.

Best known for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager and Orange Is the New Black (pictured above), Mulgrew is joining Mr. Mercedes to play Alma Lane, "another life-long resident of Bridgton, Ohio and a compelling force in Morris’ (Gabriel Ebert) life since he was a boy. She is a bit vicious and a lot smart." Mulgrew can definitely play being simultaneously vicious and smart.

Gelman, who appeared in the second season of Stranger Things, will be playing Roland Finklestein, "a smart, passionate defense attorney who is representing Lou Linklatter (Breeda Wool) in her murder trial. He believes he can win the case if they go to trial and keep Lou out of prison."

The character being played by Paul, who had a role in the second season of The Sinner, is A. D. A. Sarah Pace, the prosecutor on Lou's case. "At first glance one might think her soft, but she is a hardcore prosecutor with a strong moral compass. She doesn’t support or believe in Lou's vigilantism and refuses to back down from pursuing justice."

Mr. Mercedes is executive produced by King, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment, Tom Lesinski and Jenna Santoianni of Sonar Entertainment, Shane Elrod and Kate Regan of AT&T Audience Network, David E. Kelley (who oversees the writer's room), and director Jack Bender.

The third season of the show is currently filming in South Carolina.

Mr. Mercedes airs on the AT&T AUDIENCE Network, and I really need to catch up on it.