Mayor of Kingstown
GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 9/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 8/10CynicalDeeply distrustful of institutions and human motives.This show: 8/10Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 8/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10Working classOrdinary people, ordinary money, real stakes.This show: 7/10Graphic violenceExplicit, unflinching violence.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Jeremy RennerTobi BamtefaTaylor HandleyHugh DillonDerek WebsterHamish Allan-Headley
Written by
Hugh DillonTaylor Sheridan
Starring
Jeremy RennerTobi BamtefaTaylor HandleyHugh DillonDerek WebsterHamish Allan-Headley
Written by
Hugh DillonTaylor Sheridan
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Mayor of Kingstown Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.9 | |
| S2 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.2 | |
| S3 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.7 | |
| S4 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 9.2 | 8.9 | |
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About
"Bleak power brokering inside America's prison economy"
In a small Michigan town whose entire economy runs on prisons, a family of power brokers works the space between inmates, guards, gangs, and cops to keep an explosive situation from blowing up. Jeremy Renner leads as the reluctant fixer who inherits the family business. It's grim, violent, and unglamorous, more concerned with systemic rot than heroics. The pace is deliberate, heavy on tense conversations and moral compromise rather than action, and the tone rarely lets up on bleakness. What carries it is the performances and the queasy sense of a system nobody can actually fix.
Watch it for
the unflinching look at how mass incarceration warps an entire town's power structure.
Maybe skip if
you want lighter pacing or any real hope amid the bleakness.
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All Seasons
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Season 12021
8.321K108h 46m
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Season 22023
7.813K106h 56m
The struggle for power becomes tougher than ever as the McLuskys work to keep order on all sides of the gate.
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Season 32024
7.911K107h 54m
In season three, a series of explosions rock Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob sets up shop in the city, and a drug war rages inside and outside prison walls. The pressure is on Mike McLusky to end the war but things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the Mayor's attempts to keep the peace among all factions.
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Season 42025
8.510K108h 13m
In season four, Mike's control over Kingstown is threatened as new players compete to fill the power vacuum left in the Russians' wake, compelling him to confront the resulting gang war and stop them from swallowing the town. Meanwhile, with those he loves in more danger than ever before, Mike must contend with a headstrong new Warden to protect his own while grappling with demons from his past.
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Season 5
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Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Jeremy Renner Mike McLusky
Tobi Bamtefa Deverin 'Bunny' Washington
Taylor Handley Kyle McLusky
Hugh Dillon Ian Ferguson
Derek Webster Stevie
Hamish Allan-Headley Robert, Robert Sawyer
Necar Zadegan Evelyn, Assistant D.A. Evelyn Foley
Nishi Munshi Tracy
Nichole Galicia Rebecca
Emma Laird Iris
Crew
Taylor Sheridan
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