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IN MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, JEREMY RENNER stars as Mike McLusky, a powerful behind-the-scenes fixer who struggles to maintain peace between the various factions of cops, convicts and criminals in a grim Michigan town dominated by its seven prisons.
Although it has yet to be renewed for a second season, with five of 10 episodes out so far, Mayor of Kingstown has quickly become one of streaming service Paramount+’s most popular shows and drew an impressive 3.2 million viewers for its premiere episode.
Hugh Dillon, who created the show with actor/screenwriter/director Taylor Sheridan and also has a regular role in it as a police detective, says he drew on his own experience as a kid in Kingstown, Ontario.
“I grew up in a town with nine penitentiaries, a maximum, a…
