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8/10
The Threads Begin To Unravel
douglasmcbroom14 February 2023
Last week I wrote that it was not my favorite episode because it came across as disjointed and contained disparate threads. This week those threads came together and then unraveled.

A major storm is headed to Kingstown and it hits next week. Once again, Bunny (Tobi Bamtefa) was outstanding. As I have been saying for several weeks, Kyle (Taylor Handley) is in no shape to be any kind of policeman anywhere. It looks like his wife agrees with me and he is also coming to that realization. Good. I think he'll end up working with Mike (Jeremy Renner), much to the chagrin of Mariam (Dianne Wiest), whom we did not see this week.
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6/10
"You talkin to anybody?"
matthewjudge-9649612 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I feel like their repeating themselves. Didn't Mike and Kareems character just have the same no where conversation as Kyle and Ian are having? Sure it gives us the warm and fuzzy feeling of old partners reuniting...don't it feel so good? Eh? Little cheesy but fun I guess. How many times is he gunna beat this guy joseph up before one of them kills the other one? If someone kept coming to me and beating me up I don't think I would greet him without a gun in his face. This is another instance of repetitive story telling.

Anyways, this is a tough episode to watch. The dialogue and the conversations between characters feels repetitive. The show seems to be devolving into a divisive story line that seems to go nowhere fast. The main character who is suppose to be the person who is so good at balancing things out seems to have no actual purpose since no one will actual listen to his advice. Not his brother, not his mother, not his cop friends, not the guards or even Iris. Probably the only one who listens to him is bunny and it looks like his ends coming.

I'm still hoping the writing improves on future episodes and they give Mike's character the same importance and mastery of negotiating that he had in the previous season and not just turn him into a one note John Wick character.(No offense to Keanu) The thing that attracted me to the show was it didn't just do violence for the sake of action in every episode or sex for the sake of nudity.

I'll keep watching but I feel the same frustration as the other reviews.
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5/10
another nothing-happens episode
spasticfreakshow12 February 2023
Poor writing. The only vaguely saving grace is the scene-stealing Bunny actor's natural charisma, performance and story line - the audience is genuinely concerned for him, and for him alone in the whole G-forsaken town, but...pretty sure he's not meant to be the lead. It looks as though Sheridan is stretched too thin writing/running too many shows concurrently, bc if you skip this episode entirely, you will have missed no plot and you wouldn't have realized you missed an episode.

Indeed, that's reflective of this entire season of Mayor, as it has been with Yellowstone. Dragged out, repetitive, lack of character development (worse, character regression on the part of Renner's Mayor), and no meaningful action. If the season carries on much longer like this, Renner will have plenty of time to recuperate for a better project with a different writer/showrunner.
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1/10
Sheridan's poor writing is finally getting exposed
Xavier_Stone14 February 2023
Well, another nothing episode and the audience is just left wondering what is going on. Mike is supposedly trying to get these gangs to agree and this is somehow going to happen inside of prison. All we have seen Mike do is make a few phone calls and swear and help save some girl.

Other than some talk, nothing happens. I'm tapping out of this show. I like Renner as a actor, but here he is just yapping all the time and zero action. I wonder why Costner is leaving Yellowstone, probably because he's tired of Sheridan's writing as well.

Hopefully more actors catch on and he can lose this blank check he seems to have with having multiple shows with no depth. He did admit to screenwriting the pilot of Tulsa King in one night, and it shows.
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