SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “Comeuppance,” the Season 3 finale of “ Mayor of Kingstown ,” now streaming on Paramount+. Wrapping up its season quietly in a tidy fashion is just not the “Mayor of Kingstown” way, which it proved once more on Sunday with the conclusion of its gripping third season. As is par for the course with the dark world of the fictional Michigan city, there was a lot of bloodshed and death as well as characters questioning their respective futures.
Not too shabby for a show that found itself in a very real, fragile position last year when star Jeremy Renner, who plays beleaguered Mike McLusky, was injured in a snowplow accident that left him with blunt chest trauma and 38 broken bones. But, like the heroes he’s known for playing in much of his career, Renner was determined to recover and get back to his “Mayor of Kingstown” character, who is the center of the corrupt and dangerous world in the Paramount+ series created by Taylor Sheridan (“Yellowstone”) and Hugh Dillon , who also stars in the series as morally challenged detective Ian Ferguson. Following the finale (with no word yet on a fourth season pick-up) Dillon talked to us about what he did to get the recovering Renner excited to return to work, as well as Dillon’s own connection to the world portrayed in the series.
Also, since the episode saw the deaths of the villainous Milo Sunter (Aiden Gillen), as well as more tragic ends for long-time c.