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| Paramount+ | Release Date: November 14, 2021 |
Summary:
Prisons are the lifeblood of the small Michigan town and brothers Mike and Mitch McLusky (Jeremy Renner and Kyle Chandler) try to keep the peace by using their influence on the police, the prison, and politicians in this drama series co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon.
Genre(s):
Drama, Suspense
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Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
Negative:
2
Screen Rant
Oct 22, 2025
Collider
Oct 22, 2025
Nov 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s hard to know what the long game is after watching just two episodes. If said episodes are any indication, there will be no shortage of bloodshed, adrenaline or metaphor (Mike is rather obsessed with the grizzly bears who frequent the area outside his cabin). But there’s also some low-key, unexpected humor, much of it courtesy of Renner.
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Nov 11, 2021
RogerEbert.com
Nov 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
All these promising performances are set against a story that so far seems uninterested in complicating the alleged heroism of its protagonists, and that would rather dive deeper into doom and gloom than consider the circumstances that lead to such fraught divides between the powerful and the powerless.
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Nov 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Much of Mayor of Kingstown, though, may as well have rolled off an assembly line from the kind of factory the city used to host in more prosperous days. Its stars and its co-creator will get it some attention — as, perhaps, will a title that could just as easily be Mare of Rennertown or 2 Mare 2 Renner — but like Mariam McLusky, you’ll probably wish the people involved were devoting their talents to something better.
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Nov 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Renner, as the lead of the show, too easily snaps into a prestige-TV grimace without much underneath. And the show around him treats unhappiness as the subject rather than a condition of an environment with much more to explore. It’s hard to imagine the viewer who will want to spend much more than the pilot’s first hour in Kingstown.
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Dec 26, 2021
Probably the best show of 2021 we need more gritty neo-noir like this. Hope to see many seasons.
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Feb 16, 2022
This show has to be one of the darkest things I've watched in a long time! I absolutely love it!
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Feb 19, 2023
Show hits on all levels and every race is represented, whether fair or not, but in a town like that, i dont imagine it’s too far off from the truth….LOVE.”Hawkeye” playing main character (Jeremy Renner)….he is phenomenal
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Jan 28, 2022
It appears the professional critics here are relying on just the first one or two episodes. This is a dynamite show, with a unique premise of just exactly who the protagonist is, great performances, and no nonsense.
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Feb 11, 2023
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Jan 8, 2023
Well done with some interesting twists with some of the storytelling and mob police criminal FBI tropes with not everything black or white - Renner & others hit it out of the park with their performances
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Jan 29, 2022
The critics are perfectly right. The is almost no plot in this show and the sillines of most of twists is beyond ridiculous.
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