It's fair to say that Mayor of Kingstown is, at least for the undersigned, one of the best series of the last few months. Starring Jeremy Renner (the Bourne legacy left behind), Taylor Handley and a great Dianne Wiest, the action takes place in a fictional small town whose main business is prisons, so fictional that it is supposedly in Michigan The truth is that it is in Kingston , Brantford, Toronto and Hamilton in the Canadian province of Ontario. It's the budget, stupid! You could say that it is the equivalent of the Madrid Meco, saving distances.
Rarely has a prison riot created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon been better filmed than in this series. It's also true that Sheridan has long since become one of the greatest talents in the American audiovisual industry. His blockbuster films include Sicario, Comanchería or Wind River, also with Renner as the protagonist, which show his peculiar and contemporary vision of the Far West, although the series that opened all doors for him was Yellowstone.
Mike McLussky (Renner) is a kind of mediator or service provider between the various urban tribes that populate the local prisons and police force. His mother (Dianne Wiest) tries, with more enthusiasm than effectiveness, to spread the good news of the culture to a select group of delinquents who find a little respite from their daily grind in her classes.
For those commenting on the obvious, it is worth noting that the series is violent from the first of the ten episodes that make up the first season and that this violence, filmed or felt, floods all chapters of the two SkyShowtime broadcasts. (also on Movistar Plus+). He finds himself in an environment as inherently violent as life itself, and if anyone has any doubts, watch the documentary film made about the Attica prison riot in upstate New York in 1971, where it In the end there were 43 dead and 80 injured.
If you're craving something quiet, even beautiful, you can rewatch The Durrells or Brideshead Revisited, the feature film or series based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh. Like a pharmacy, everything is available on television, even in this cliché-filled commentary.
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