Started Mayor of Kingstown and had no idea it was a Taylor Sheridan show.
Turns out he and Hugh Dillon (bald cop in the show) were acting buddies back in his former failed actor life before he gave up, took up writing instead and became a juggernaut.
Dillon is from Kingston Ontario, which is a multi-prison city, and he told Sheridan all about growing up there, so then they produced the show together, and that's why it's called "Kingstown." I recognized Kingston Penitentiary immediately from the arial shots, which is why I started reading about it.
I'm really enjoying it. Jeremy Renner's character is really well written and well acted. I'm only a handful of episodes in, but it reminds me a lot of a cross between OZ and The Wire.
Hilariously, I'm watching it with DH and I keep saying "I just don't understand his motivation. He's working his ass off, stressed out of his mind, and making no money! Why would anyone actually do that?"
To which DH laughs at me and says "You. You do that all the time. You constantly take on stressful diplomatic roles with little to no pay trying to hold insane situations together through sheer will just because you see a problem you think you can help with. You, you're the kind of person who would do that job."
My face dropped and I said "I have issues don't I?"
He said "Babe, you don't have issues, you have subscriptions."