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Mayor of Kingstown turns negotiations between guards, inmates, gangs, cops and politicians into hard-edged crime drama. An uneasy peace can unravel into violence, and every bargain leaves someone paying a price. The dialogue is gritty, the mood bleak, and the cold Michigan setting carries a persistent threat of the town boiling over.
The McLusky family’s work follows them into their own lives, straining relationships as they struggle to keep a corrupt prison system functioning. Rather than resolving one dispute at a time, the story unfolds in a long serialized arc: consequences spread quickly, loyalties shift, and each attempted fix adds to the pressure on a family already fraying.
bleak crime drama, prison corruption and Drama
Drama and Crime
Season 4 · 10 episodes
Paramount+
The McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.
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