Critics Rating: 4.05 / 5.0
4.05
It’s the final episode of Mayor of Kingstown season 3, and things are crazier than ever. Mike opens and closes the episode with an emotional monologue, admitting his mistakes and how prison has changed him.
In this Mayor of Kingstown Season 3 Episode 10 review, we have a lot of shocks to uncover if we want to end this story. Especially since we haven’t heard of a fourth season. This ending may be all there is to the story.
Be sure to let us know in the comments how well you think the third season fared compared to the first two seasons. Did you find the ending satisfying enough to be the finale?
Things ended up being so messy, with unexpected deaths and loyalties tested. I was hoping Mike would find happiness with Evelyn now. But that’s unlikely to happen now that she’s caught Kyle.
How bad is it that the only good brother is going to jail?
I’ve been rooting for Ian and Robert to see the other side of the justice system all season, and just when we thought we’d see Evelyn go after Ian for the murder of a CI, she turned her attention to Kyle instead.
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But at least Evelyn is going after Ian’s corruption. I’m still holding out hope for another season so we can see justice in the death of serial killer Charlie (Kenny Johnson).
Yes, I sympathized with a serial killer. Hate me. We all have things we hate.
But Evelyn also knows what a narcissistic psychopath Robert is, and she seems to want him more than Ian does.
So, will Mike be able to use this to Kyle’s advantage? Fact: Kyle did something illegal – he shot his brother. Fact also – he’s a hero.
Because Robert is crazy, he would surely have shot this terrified innocent man and possibly his son.
We fully expect to see some emotional trauma left over from this necessity. And will Robert try to get revenge, since we know he survived?
There were plenty of deaths throughout the episode to distract from Kyle’s survival. The war on the bridge had wiped out a large portion of the Bunny Crypt gang and several Russians.
But will that matter to them with all their leaders having crossed over to Hell? We saw Milo back in the ninth episode of season three of Mayor of Kingstown. He was holding Roman, Constantine’s second-in-command, hostage.
Things didn’t go well for him, as he revealed a deep, sadistic, evil nature in Milo that was worthy of being on Criminal Minds. I’d like to read his profile.
The creepiness factor was the perfect sendoff for a series that was just starting to get going as the fall season began. Is anyone else ready for all things scary?
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When it comes to gore, there is a noticeable trend towards online series that are more mature in their content. This raises questions about the psychology of different generations.
We no longer feel uncomfortable watching a traumatized, drug-addled woman blow the back of her captor’s head off, because we can justify her murder as a means of gaining her freedom and doing a service to humanity. She killed a very bad man.
It’s a bit sad that despite all of Mike’s efforts and crimes to save Iris, she burned herself to the point of overdosing on a bus out of town.
Will Mike ever find out what happened to her? He tells her to go away and never look back. To forget him and everything about Kingston.
Oddly enough, the pills she took to end her life originally belonged to Mike’s deceased mother, who had also tried to help Iris before her death.
If Constantine’s brain explosion didn’t shake you, you probably cheered when Mike turned Tyson against Milo after Ian took off with Iris.
The death of another evil man has brought justice. But his death also toes the fine line that Mike has been discussing throughout the episode.
Like Kyle, he did something bad for a good reason. Although it wasn’t as justified as Kyle shooting his brother. But Mike’s vengeful killing of the villain Milo brought us peace we wouldn’t have had he gone to prison. He’d already escaped once.
The justice system is in such a mess that he cannot leave his fate to a flawed judicial system. If he had any useful information, he could have traded it for his freedom. His death is the only way the case could have ended peacefully.
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This was especially true after Mike promised to shoot him. We should love a man when he keeps his word. But seeing him shoot Milo after he mentions Mike’s mother explains why we see him with blood on his shirt.
It’s surprising that Evelyn didn’t ask about it when they talked after she arrested Kyle. It seems that Mike’s closest confidants are facing a bad fate.
How confusing would it be if Mike was the only one who didn’t go to prison if there was a fourth season? The ex-con goes free, while the three ex-police officers go to prison.
It’s likely that with the war on the bridge and the deaths of Milo, Konstantin, and Roman, we won’t see any more discord between the Russians and the Graves.
But we never get a resolution to Bane’s story. He and Mike are at odds, but Mike betrays him by pretending to be nice to him to please the Aryans in prison.
Mike has successfully eliminated the Russian threat, which was in collusion with the Aryans. Does this mean they will back down? Or will they continue to attack Bane’s businesses under a new leader?
We know that Bane has survived many weapons. So he is still armed and ready for war, even if he loses some soldiers. He was smart to send an empty truck to the bridge. The police won’t be able to charge him with anything.
We will have to wait and see what Washington will do next. With Karim gone and the spy still in place, the prison is ripe for takeover.
Can Mike redeem his legacy as Mayor of Kingston and regain control? Or will he be disgraced like the mayor who came before him?
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What’s left for him if all his brothers are in prison (or dead, because does anyone really think Robert could survive in prison)? His relationship with Evelyn is burned, and Iris is dead.
Even his boring alliance with Kareem is over now that the prison warden has committed suicide at the hands of the prisoners. How will Mike react when he learns of Kareem’s death? He senses something is up but doesn’t follow through.
Who will be the next warden of the prison after Karim’s death? It would be to Mike’s advantage if he were the man working the prison. But it would be smarter for the prison to recruit from the outside.
After all his losses this season, Mike might benefit from a win in his division, especially if it’s someone who will work with him instead of bringing problems for him to fix like his brothers.
Is anyone else bothered by Ian and Robert’s constant desire for Mike to fix their mistakes? We’ve come to expect this behavior from the unstable Robert, especially after his confrontation with Kyle in the last episode.
But Ian is walking the line into madness with Robert by recently killing Charlie to cover his ass.
The mayor of Kingstown left me with some unresolved feelings and a grim optimism about the possible future of its residents.
If the show ends this way, it will be in my favor. As it stands now, I can imagine my own future for the characters. And it will likely look different than what the show might do if it returns for another season.
But if Renner and his troubled family ever return for another round, I’d enjoy visiting Kingstown again for more drama and the conflicting joys of illegal justice.
What about you readers? How did the third season of the series end in your opinion? Are you hoping for another season to get answers? What do you want them to do next?
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Or are you on the give-it-all train and hoping Paramount shifts its focus to another series, like the new NCIS: Origins, NCIS: Tony & Ziva, or Sheriff Country 2025 (the Fire Country spinoff)?
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