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On the heels of Mayor of Kingstown‘s bloody Season 4 finale, the Paramount+ crime drama starring Jeremy Renner has been renewed for a fifth. It will be the final installment of the series, created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon, and will consist of 8 episodes, down from 10 for Seasons 1-4, with recent cast addition Edie Falco returning alongside Renner.
This is the first ongoing Sheridan series to set an end date since the regime change at Paramount+. In the months following Skydance’s acquisition of the streamer’s parent Paramount Global in August, Paramount+ has ordered new seasons of Sherdian’s Landman, Tulsa King and Lioness. (Paramount’s new streaming chief Cindy Holland in August called the the Taylor Sheridan universe “a really great foundation” for Paramount+; in October, the prolific creator set a 2029 move to NBCUniversal.)
Mayor of Kingstown has been a solid draw on Paramount+. It also has steadily improved its standing with critics, going from 33% on Rotten Tomatoes for Season 1 to 100% for the most recent fourth season featuring Emmy winner Falco as a new lead opposite Oscar nominee Renner.
Still, Mayor of Kingstown‘s ratings performance has not been on the level of other Sheridan dramas, especially recently. Season 4 of Mayor of Kingstown overlapped with new seasons of Landman (Season 2) and Tulsa King (Season 3) being released on Paramount+. Both Landman and Tulsa King have charted on Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 of streaming originals, with Landman also making waves as a Top 3 series on the overall Nielsen chart.
Meanwhile, Mayor of Kingstown, which — like most Sheridan series — is expensive to make, has not broken into Nielsen’s originals Top 10 with its fourth season having done so with previous installments.
Still, it is a Paramount+ legacy show being part of the Taylor Sheridan universe, which led to the decision to pick up a final season, with a six-episode order reportedly discussed before the two sides settled on eight installments.
In Season 4 of Mayor of Kingstown, Mike’s (Renner) control over Kingstown is threatened as new players compete to fill the power vacuum left in the Russians’ wake, compelling him to confront the resulting gang war and stop them from swallowing the town. Meanwhile, with those he loves in more danger than ever before, Mike must contend with a headstrong new Warden (Falco) to protect his own while grappling with demons from his past.
The season ended with the gang war in Kingstown escalating to a violent climax in the finale. Sheridan and Dillon will now have eight more episodes to examine the aftermath and tell the rest of the story, which Dillon previously shared they had been prepared to take to seven seasons.
“[Sheridan] has an ending for it in Season 7. Whether it goes that far or that’s where we get [who knows], but he has an ending, and everyone knows about it,” Dillon said in a Screen Rant interview last year. “Our goal is to get to that Season 7, because that’s as far as we can get, because that’s where he’s always had it. 15 years ago, he had it. 15 years ago, ‘So, here’s how it’s starting, Mitch is going to get killed off in the first 10 pages, and season 7, episode 10, this is where Mike’s going to be.”
Mitch, played by Kyle Chandler, was Mike’s (Renner) older brother who was famously shot dead in the series’ opening episode.
In addition to Renner and Falco, the latest season stars Lennie James, Laura Benanti, Dillon, Taylor Handley, Tobi Bamtefa, Derek Webster, Hamish Allan-Headley and Nishi Munshi.
Mayor of Kingstown is produced by Paramount Television Studios, 101 Studios and Bosque Ranch Productions. Sheridan executive produces with Dillon, Renner, Antoine Fuqua, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Michael Friedman, Dave Erickson, Christoph Schrewe, Wendy Riss, Evan Perazzo and Keith Cox. Erickson also serves as showrunner. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
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