Stephen King spent the 4th of July holiday catching up on TV shows, taking to social media to express his thoughts on “Mayor of Kingstown” and Jeremy Renner.
“Mayor of Kingstown” is a Paramount+ crime thriller created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon, which stars Renner. King took to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, to share his thoughts. “I have no f***ing clue what’s going on in THE MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, but I love this show,” King posted. “It reminds me of THE SHIELD and SONS OF ANARCHY. I had no f***ing idea what was going on in those, either.”
Renner stars as Mike McLusky, the “Mayor” of the Michigan town where the McLusky family serves as mediators between gangs, prisoners, and cops. Although King admitted he wasn’t entirely clear about the series’ plot, he had one thing for certain, sharing on X, “What I know is Mike McLusky drives around in a badass Lincoln Connie. That’s all I need to know. Also, that guy Bunny [Tobi Bamtefa] is a badass.”
King also praised Renner for starring in Season 3 of the series after the snowplow accident at the beginning of 2023. “Also, Jeremy Renner is a badass who got run over by a snowplow and came back for Season F*cking Three!” King shared.
Renner recently opened up about the struggles he faces following the January 2023 accident that almost took his life. The actor says that he would rather take on roles that are less demanding of him emotionally. “I just don’t have the energy for it. I don’t have the fuel,” Renner said on the Smartless podcast, hosted by Will Arnett, Sean Hayes, and Jason Bateman. “I have so much fuel to put into this reality, this body, all this stuff. I can’t just go play make-believe right now. Because that takes a lot of time to get right here every day just so I can have a positive thought, so I can progress, so I can always keep growing.”
He said returning to “Mayor of Kingstown” wasn’t difficult as he already knew the character, “But if it was a very challenging role, I couldn’t have taken it. Not challenging in the sense that — because the show’s challenging, but it’s if I had to go play Dahmer or something, something so far from me.”
The “King of Horror” Stephen King is heaping praise on Jeremy Renner for overcoming his snowplow accident and returning to “Mayor of Kingstown.” The legendary author, known for his horror adaptations like “Carrie,” “The Shining,” and “It,” spent the Fourth of July holiday taking in some TV, which took him to the Paramount+ streaming service. One of the original series on Paramount+ is “Mayor of Kingstown,” a crime thriller starring Hawkeye actor Jeremy Renner. The third season recently debuted and marks Renner’s return to acting following his nearly tragic snowplow accident last year. But Renner is back on the small screen and captivating audiences once again, including Stephen King.
“I have no f***ing clue what’s going on in THE MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, but I love this show,” Stephen King said on X. “It reminds me of THE SHIELD and SONS OF ANARCHY. I had no f***ing idea what was going on in those, either.”
He then praised Jeremy Renner’s character, Mike McLusky, who is the de facto “mayor” of the Michigan town where the McLusky family helps to mediate disputes between the police, gangs, and prisoners. “What I know is Mike McLusky drives around in a badass Lincoln Connie. That’s all I need to know,” King added. “Also, that guy Bunny [Tobi Bamtefa] is a badass.” He concluded with, “Also, Jeremy Renner is a badass who got run over by a snowplow and came back for Season F*cking Three!”
Jeremy Renner has given an update on the chances of a fourth season of “Mayor of Kingstown.” “I have to make it through Season 3 first,” Renner recently explained to Collider. “We’ll see if I do. I’ve enjoyed being with this character and exploring, and I always think there’s more to explore. When the world is set up so beautifully, like it is in ‘Mayor of Kingstown,’ and all the chess pieces are there, every time you play chess, it’s a new game. It’s like that with this [show]. For the audience, they just get more involved and invested in the characters, just as I do. I’ve only seen the first episode, so I’m excited to see the rest of the season. I don’t know half the things. I only focused on my part.”
Jeremy Renner’s Mike McLusky and his Michigan prison town world are teetering on the brink of becoming an all-out warzone when some powerful new players start showing up on his shores. Mike and his loose coalition of allies (on both sides of the law) are going to have to stand on business to prove that Kingstown is still their jungle to rule. 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 (Jeremy 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.
Stephen King spent the 4th of July holiday catching up on TV shows, taking to social media to express his thoughts on “Mayor of Kingstown” and Jeremy Renner. “Mayor of Kingstown” is a Paramount+ crime thriller created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon, which stars Renner.
“I have no f***ing clue what’s going on in THE MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, but I love this show,” King posted on X. “It reminds me of THE SHIELD and SONS OF ANARCHY. I had no f***ing idea what was going on in those, either.”
Renner stars as Mike McLusky, the “Mayor” of the Michigan town where the McLusky family serves as mediators between gangs, prisoners, and cops. Although King said he wasn’t entirely clear about what was going on in the series, he had one thing for certain, sharing on X, “What I know is Mike McLusky drives around in a badass Lincoln Connie. That’s all I need to know. Also, that guy Bunny [Tobi Bamtefa] is a badass.”
King also praised Renner for starring in Season 3 of the series after the snowplow accident at the beginning of 2023. “Also, Jeremy Renner is a badass who got run over by a snowplow and came back for Season F*cking Three!” King shared.
Renner recently opened up about the struggles he faces following the January 2023 accident that almost took his life. The actor says that he would rather take on roles that are less demanding of him emotionally. “I just don’t have the energy for it. I don’t have the fuel,” Renner said on the Smartless podcast, hosted by Will Arnett, Sean Hayes, and Jason Bateman. “I have so much fuel to put into this reality, this body, all this stuff. I can’t just go play make-believe right now. Because that takes a lot of time to get right here every day just so I can have a positive thought, so I can progress, so I can always keep growing.”
He said returning to “Mayor of Kingstown” wasn’t difficult as he already knew the character, “But if it was a very challenging role, I couldn’t have taken it. Not challenging in the sense that — because the show’s challenging, but it’s if I had to go play Dahmer or something, something so far from me.”
Source: Deadline, Collider
