Despite a near-fatal brush with death in the early new year of 2023, Jeremy Renner is back at it in the acting game, almost as if nothing ever happened. Miraculously healthy, healed, and back to work in early 2024, Renner is back for a third season of his Paramount+ series, “Mayor Of Kingstown,” about a power broker family whose main business is incarceration. Created by Paramount+’s own power broker, Taylor Sheridan, the creator of “Yellowstone” and many of the streaming channels’ top series, after a year break, “Mayor Of Kingstown” returns in June of this year.
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The new teaser trailer begins with a funeral, and while it’s not revealed who passed away, it’s almost certainly the death of Dianne Wiest’s character Mariam McLusky, the matriarch and Renner’s mother on the show, a correctional institute educator in the series, who left the series last year.
“Mayor Of Kingstown” follows the McLusky family, power brokers in Kingstown, Mich., where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption, and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither.
Renner plays the reluctant de facto “Mayor,” appointed to the position at the beginning of season one following the death of his brother (Kyle Chandler, who helped launch the series). The character navigates morally murky waters as he essentially works as a negotiating go-between between various crime gangs in and outside the prison and the law enforcement agencies that many of his family are part of.
Here’s the season three synopsis:
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 (Renner) 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.
“Mayor Of Kingstown” also co-stars Hugh Dillon, one of the show’s co-creators who has appeared in many of Sheridan’s previous shows, Taylor Handley, Emma Laird, Derek Webster, Natasha Marc, Rob Kirkland, Michael Beach Hamish Allan-Headley, Pha’rez Lass, Aidan Gillen, Nishi Munshi, and more. New recurring actors in season three include Richard Brake, Denny Love, and Paula Malcomson.
The series is executive produced by Sheridan, Dillon, Renner, Antoine Fuqua, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Michael Friedman, Dave Erickson, and Regina Corrado. “Mayor Of Kingstown” returns to Paramount+ on June 2. Watch the new teaser trailer below.