I am now on series 3 of the Mayor of Kingstown.
When I was doing A level English Literature I was taught that every Shakespeare play has a "comic relief" scene where the tension is broken to give the audience a break from the drama.
For example, the mother and daughter story lines in Landman are there for that reason.
But The Mayor of Kingstown is relentless misery.
It's great to watch, but on an average evening Mike goes out and escapes three assassination attempts, kills six gunmen on the way to McDonalds, attends a funeral for a member of his family, shoots another couple of right wing MAGA nutters, then comes home and repairs the bullet holes in the wall of his home and the local mafia guy kills a barmaid while the prison guards get rogered with their own truncheons ( called Billy Sticks) during a riot akin to the IDF trashing Gaza. His brother's wife leaves him and a young man keen to live a better life puts his head under a truck wheel rather than live in the prison. I know how he felt.
All of the characters talk about getting out of Kingstown but never do. I'd have fucked off after episode 1. The story line has now become implausible which is a shame because the production quality is very good.
A good watch if you can suspend belief.
When I was doing A level English Literature I was taught that every Shakespeare play has a "comic relief" scene where the tension is broken to give the audience a break from the drama.
For example, the mother and daughter story lines in Landman are there for that reason.
But The Mayor of Kingstown is relentless misery.
It's great to watch, but on an average evening Mike goes out and escapes three assassination attempts, kills six gunmen on the way to McDonalds, attends a funeral for a member of his family, shoots another couple of right wing MAGA nutters, then comes home and repairs the bullet holes in the wall of his home and the local mafia guy kills a barmaid while the prison guards get rogered with their own truncheons ( called Billy Sticks) during a riot akin to the IDF trashing Gaza. His brother's wife leaves him and a young man keen to live a better life puts his head under a truck wheel rather than live in the prison. I know how he felt.
All of the characters talk about getting out of Kingstown but never do. I'd have fucked off after episode 1. The story line has now become implausible which is a shame because the production quality is very good.
A good watch if you can suspend belief.