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Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
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2
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Critic Reviews
Screen RantOct 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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The Daily BeastNov 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Renner’s lived-in performance is a solid axis around which Sheridan builds his show’s scenario. Unfortunately, its initial two installments are largely setup, only hinting at the messiness to follow. ... Whether Sheridan and Dillon can make it as compelling a venue to visit as Montana remains to be seen. But between their star and their setting, they certainly have the pieces in place for a potential binge-worthy affair.
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Jan 13, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Alas, as Mike’s actions suggest, show and character alike seem instead to find more narrative interest in (re)establishing well-worn plots about feuding gangs and violent power grabs. It may be gripping but it’s uninspired, both as television and as meditation on law and order in 2023.
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ColliderNov 11, 2021
RogerEbert.comNov 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 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
If you’re a fan of Renner, he’s in it a lot. If you enjoy the grittiest of crime dramas, then you’re sure to be drawn in. But as a whole, the show just doesn’t doesn’t work, at least not yet. And given the depth of many of its missteps, I’m doubtful it will find a way to recover.
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The TelegraphJan 17, 2023
Nov 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Mayor of Kingstown looks like a premium drama on paper, but the wafer-thin series that emerges feels destined to become a footnote as the other streaming show that Jeremy Renner starred in the same month Disney+ introduced "Hawkeye." Despite reuniting Renner with "Wind River" director Taylor Sheridan, this Paramount+ launch simply misses the target.
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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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