Content warning: This article contains discussions of suicide and spoilers about Mayor of Kingstown season 3, episode 10 ahead.
Summary
Mayor of Kingstownhas long highlighted how difficult life is in Kingstown, but two deaths in the season 3 finale drove the point home, especially considering the hopelessness of their stories’ ends.Mike’s voiceovers throughoutMayor of Kingstown’s three seasons painted a bleak picture, showing how nobody in Kingstown could escape the prisons’ violence, whether because they were inmates, relatives of inmates, or had to face the brutality of such a system every day due to their working there. However,Mayor of Kingstownseason 3’s finale extended Mike’s grim analysis to characters who had seemingly moved past their worst days.
Mayor of Kingstownseasons 1 to 3 explored the impact of the prison riots on Kareem, who had earned a promotion to warden but also felt the full weight of what he had to go through in the riots. While Kareem’s approach throughoutMayor of Kingstownchanged, first choosing revenge before embracing the rehabilitation aspect the prison complex should have made possible, Kareem seemed worryingly resigned to his fate towardMayor of Kingstownseason 3’s ending. Similarly, Iris finally got her freedom from Milo and Konstantin in season 3’s finale, and yet the end of her story was senselessly tragic.
Kareem & Iris’s Deaths Prove That Nobody Can Escape What Happens In Kingstown
Kareem Did Not Know How To Deal With Getting Fired & Iris Could Not Move On
Kareem and Iris both had to deal with what they survived inMayor of Kingstownseason 2, seemingly being in a better headspace at the beginning of season 3. However, their problems quickly worsened, with Kareem facing the consequences of the prison riots on his family and Iris being exposed daily to Konstantin’s violence and not feeling any kind of fear for her life despite Konstantin’s violent bouts.The last straw was the threat of being fired as warden for Kareem and Milo’s return for Iris, but even after facing that, they both had options.
Mayor Of Kingstown Season 3 Proves Mike Finally Learned From His Past In A Surprising Way
One peculiarity of Mike’s plan to re-establish order in Kingstown shows how much he learned from his mistakes in Mayor of Kingstown season 2.
However, Kareem and Iris both seemed resigned to their fate.The pervasiveness of Kingstown’s violence didn’t let them move on,even when they had the chance to start again, Kareem in another profession and Iris with her brand-new identity and life. Kareem choosing to go into the yard knowing the AB convicts would have killed him proved his intentions and that he knew what he was choosing, making his story’s end show how he could not see past what happened to him, just like Iris felt stuck for so long amid Kingstown’s violence before being pushed out of the town.
Many Of Mayor Of Kingstown’s Discussions Always Echoed This Sentiment
Mike & Bunny’s Exchanges Discussed This At Length And Even Tracy & Kyle Did
Mayor of Kingstownalways focused on Kingstown’s toxicity, and the drama exemplified it consistently with Mike’s clients and Mariam’s approach when she had to deal with KPD or the prisons’ system. However,Mayor of Kingstownseason 3 doubled down on the topic, being discussed by various characters. Mike and Bunny explored Kingstown’s grim reality of gang wars and inequality afterRhonda’s death inMayor of Kingstownseason 3, with the two thinking about how privileged some in Kingstown were, living till their old age to die peacefully in their sleep when such a kindness wasn’t extended to those they knew.
Mayor of Kingstownnever shied away from showing how some characters had all cards stacked against them, while others continued to run unencumbered, causing chaos and bringing pain to those in Kingstown.
Even Tracy and Kyle discussed why they continued to live in Kingstown where it was always burdensome to try and do the right thing, choosing to serve their community just like Mariam did her whole life in Kingstown, and Tracy’s own fight for justice proved it inMayor of Kingstownseason 3.Mayor of Kingstownseason 3 ending with Kareem and Iris dead thus makes Kingstown’s grim reality more evident and impossible to deny, letting no glimmer of hope come out from any of the storylines tackled inMayor of Kingstown’s third outing.
Mayor of Kingstownseason 3 is now streaming in its entirety on Paramount Plus.
Mayor of Kingstown
Mayor of Kingstown, released in 2021, is a crime thriller series set in a small Michigan town where the McClusky family wields influence among police, criminals, and politicians. As power brokers, they navigate the complexities of a community reliant on the business of incarceration.
