Two Deaths In Mayor Of Kingstown Season 3 Exemplified A Grim Reality In The Show

Content warning: This article contains discussions of suicide and spoilers about Mayor of Kingstown season 3, episode 10 ahead.

Summary Mayor of Kingstown delves deep into the grim reality of Kingstown's gang wars, inequality, and the struggle for justice amidst pervasive violence.

Mayor of Kingstown season 3 explores how Kareem and Iris struggle to move on from their past traumas in a toxic environment.

Kareem's and Iris's tragic deaths in Mayor of Kingstown emphasize the impossibility of escaping Kingstown's violence.

Mayor of Kingstown has long highlighted how difficult life is in Kingstown, but two deaths in the season 3 finale drove the point home, especially considering the hopelessness of their stories’ ends. Mike’s voiceovers throughout Mayor of Kingstown’s three seasons painted a bleak picture, showing how nobody in Kingstown could escape the prisons’ violence, whether because they were inmates, relatives of inmates, or had to face the brutality of such a system every day due to their working there. However, Mayor of Kingstown season 3’s finale extended Mike’s grim analysis to characters who had seemingly moved past their worst days.

Mayor of Kingstown seasons 1 to 3 explored the impact of the prison riots on Kareem, who had earned a promotion to warden but also felt the full weight of what he had to go through in the riots. While Kareem’s approach throughout Mayor of Kingstown changed, first choosing revenge before embracing the rehabilitation aspect the prison complex should have made possible, Kareem seemed worryingly resigned to his fate toward Mayor of Kingstown season 3’s ending. Similarly, Iris finally got her freedom from Milo and Konstantin in season 3’s finale, and yet the end of her story was senselessly tragic.

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Kareem & Iris's Deaths Prove That Nobody Can Escape What Happens In Kingstown

Kareem Did Not Know How To Deal With Getting Fired & Iris Could Not Move On

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Kareem and Iris both had to deal with what they survived in Mayor of Kingstown season 2, seemingly being in a better headspace at the beginning of season 3. However, their problems quickly worsened, with Kareem facing the consequences of the prison riots on his family and Iris being exposed daily to Konstantin’s violence and not feeling any kind of fear for her life despite Konstantin’s violent bouts. The last straw was the threat of being fired as warden for Kareem and Milo’s return for Iris, but even after facing that, they both had options.

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However, Kareem and Iris both seemed resigned to their fate. The pervasiveness of Kingstown’s violence didn’t let them move on, even when they had the chance to start again, Kareem in another profession and Iris with her brand-new identity and life. Kareem choosing to go into the yard knowing the AB convicts would have killed him proved his intentions and that he knew what he was choosing, making his story’s end show how he could not see past what happened to him, just like Iris felt stuck for so long amid Kingstown’s violence before being pushed out of the town.

Many Of Mayor Of Kingstown's Discussions Always Echoed This Sentiment

Mike & Bunny's Exchanges Discussed This At Length And Even Tracy & Kyle Did

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Mayor of Kingstown always focused on Kingstown’s toxicity, and the drama exemplified it consistently with Mike’s clients and Mariam’s approach when she had to deal with KPD or the prisons’ system. However, Mayor of Kingstown season 3 doubled down on the topic, being discussed by various characters. Mike and Bunny explored Kingstown’s grim reality of gang wars and inequality after Rhonda’s death in Mayor of Kingstown season 3, with the two thinking about how privileged some in Kingstown were, living till their old age to die peacefully in their sleep when such a kindness wasn’t extended to those they knew.

Mayor of Kingstown never shied away from showing how some characters had all cards stacked against them, while others continued to run unencumbered, causing chaos and bringing pain to those in Kingstown.

Even Tracy and Kyle discussed why they continued to live in Kingstown where it was always burdensome to try and do the right thing, choosing to serve their community just like Mariam did her whole life in Kingstown, and Tracy’s own fight for justice proved it in Mayor of Kingstown season 3. Mayor of Kingstown season 3 ending with Kareem and Iris dead thus makes Kingstown’s grim reality more evident and impossible to deny, letting no glimmer of hope come out from any of the storylines tackled in Mayor of Kingstown’s third outing.

Mayor of Kingstown season 3 is now streaming in its entirety on Paramount Plus.