Buffet Podcast Ep. 4: Sizzling ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ finale leaves lots of juice for a fourth season

The incredible Jeremy Renner leads a first rate cast in the Paramount Plus show. I need more of this.

If you asked Siri for a taut television show, the tautest, Mayor of Kingstown would sit atop the list. There’s nothing quite like it. For three seasons (the last one wrapped up Sunday night), the Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon creation has gathered tension and crooked grief with each storyline. Imagine your favorite network television show, but told at a higher level. A diner steak that became a porterhouse at the suits and tie place on the Hill.

This show goes hard with its chaos. A prison riot or a battle with deadly Russians and Crips pales in comparison to the wager of a man’s soul spread thin over a town that gathers and spits out more shit than an Oklahoma tornado.

The incredible Jeremy Renner is the unofficial “mayor” of a rustic northeastern town, aka a broker between the dangerous parties in town: the prisons, gangs, police, politicians, and even the hard-hitting attorneys. He wheels and deals, keeping everyone in line. But it’s the attorney that stings especially deep at the end of the show’s third season, something we will discuss here soon via video.

First, I want to officially displace the Hulk, because the incredible one here is Mr. Renner. Look, coming back from that snowplow accident was a miracle. Coming back to walk again, talk, and move as close as he moved before is another leap. Taking the reins of a demanding lead role is something else. If there’s a real life avenger, it’s Renner. Along with intelligent writing, he’s the MVP of this show.

But the supporting cast gives until it’s gone as well, including Hamish Allan Headley’s (a great find on this show) searing turn as S.W.A.T team leader Robert, a man that you don’t want angry, especially with a gun in his hand. Tobi Bamtefa and Taylor Handley are also terrific, but Dillon (a co-creator and someone who really lived in a prison town) steals every scene he’s in as the old school police lion, Ian Ferguson.

Handley’s Kyle (Mike’s younger brother) and Ian find themselves in the crosshairs of Necar Zadegan’s assistant district attorney after a bridge shooting. Season 3 ended with a few loose ends and plenty of juice for more seasons.

Let’s discuss it all in the video below. If you can handle my face for 12 minutes, I break down some season finale show points and dish on some *SPOILERS* that fans of the show may enjoy. Either way, here you go and sleep well.