WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
Mayor of Kingstown Season 3 is coming to an end!
The show’s Season 3 finale, “Comeuppance,” is now streaming on Paramount+, and fans have plenty of thoughts about the final moments of the third season.
Series co-creator Hugh Dillon, who also stars in the series as Ian Ferguson, spoke about the events of Season 3, and what to expect moving forward.
Keep reading to find out more…
In the conclusion of the season, Kareem walks into the prison yard knowing he’ll be killed, and Iris commits suicide by taking pills on the bus – and we should expect that they’re gone for good.
“You should say goodbye,” he said.
“Taylor [Sheridan] taught me this, and this is how we operate. This is about life. The opium epidemic. I grew up in a prison town, and no one is safe and nothing is sacred. And if you grasp that, it can be a grief-driven experience, but you have to put those real-life markers in, or else it’s just a show.”
“Those are real things that people deal with. I’m from a prison town, so I’ve been dealing with these things for years. And I’ve had a very close relationship with suicide — like friends who have committed suicide, and opiates. And you’ve got to mine those experiences. You can’t just gloss over them, and that’s what I bring. I understand this world and these people, and it’s our job to go deep and hit hard and not gloss over it,” he continued.
He affirmed that the characters are gone, saying: “Yes. If we did anything else, that would be corruption. Creative corruption. Because that is the end. So to come back and say, ‘Oh, she was just sleeping…’ They are dead. This is what happens. It’s a tragedy. We know these people, and we understand. To pretend it didn’t happen would be a disservice to all of us.”
As for whether there’s a Season 4, he simply said: “It’s a bit cliché, but from your mouth to God’s ears.”
If there is a Season 4, he spoke to Mike’s character talking about evil and forgiveness, and returning to himself: “I think it’s a thing that we all hold onto, so we don’t just give up. So many of us and the characters are predisposed to their darker impulses, and they’re very desensitized. But you’ve got to have hope. That’s what it is. It’s going back to hoping that Iris can make it out. And hoping that Kyle [Taylor Handley] can have a better life than [his brother] Mike has. It’s all those family issues, and how do you absorb loss and defeat and compromise? That is the crux,” he said.
