Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Following a horrific snowcat accident in January 2023 , it was initially questionable if “Mayor of Kingstown” star Jeremy Renner would survive, let alone walk again. But 18 months later, watching him in the TV-MA-rated third season premiere of “Kingstown,” streaming episodes weekly on Paramount+ beginning Sunday, it doesn’t look like Renner, 53, missed a beat.
There’s no evidence of the accident as Renner’s Mike McLusky marches through the alleys of Kingstown, Mich., portrayed in the series by Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas. “That’s all me,” Renner said in an interview last month, three days after production on the season wrapped.
“How things feel and how things look are completely different.” Renner, who recently filmed a commercial for Brooks Running shoes in Pittsburgh, said he was in pain while running for the ad. “I look like I’m running great,” he said.
“But it felt like I was on a freeway with four flat tires and was white knuckling it like crazy. It’s an awful feeling, just like it was acting even in that first scene (of the new season of ‘Mayor of Kingstown’). Walking on ice and in dress shoes in this graveyard was not ideal at all but you act as-if (it is) and try to get this walk back and do it.
Using the show and the character to get back out in the world and be rebirthed into it again, it looks better than it felt. It did quickly turn back aro.