Mayor of Kingstown season 4, episode 4 review

SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Mayor of Kingstown Season 4, Episode 4.

Mayor of Kingstown Season 4, Episode 4 is a reminder of how brilliant Jeremy Renner is in the title role. It’s also one of those episodes that’s going to look much bigger in the rear view mirror. Paramount+ viewers will still be talking about this one by the end of the season, maybe into a potential Season 5.

“Sins of Omission” is really about putting the screws to Mike, even as it reveals major plot pieces both to him and the audience. The thread that runs through the entire hour is Mike’s emotional journey. Like most of Taylor Sheridan’s shows, Mayor of Kingstown is centered on one A-list star — but one of the things that makes Kingstown different is how it leans into that as an advantage. The crux of this show is that the Mayor is the glue who holds Kingstown together, like it or not.

That’s tested to the extreme yet again in Episode 4. Mike gets exactly one good moment right at the top — he and Cindy have spent the night together after Carney’s sendoff — and then it’s sharply downhill from there. But then he’s trying to keep Bunny Washington and Frank Moses from starting another war, someone breaks into his brother’s home, Ian Ferguson nearly kills Evelyn Foley, and…