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Good Newwz movie review: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor deliver a complete entertainer

Good newwz movie review: akshay kumar, kareena kapoor khan, diljit dosanjh and kiara advani film is enjoyable despite having a serious subject at its heart..

Good Newwz Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Diljit Dosanjh, Kiara Advani Director: Raj Mehta

Good Newwz brings glad tidings– we get a talented cast led by Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor Khan , a story that resonates with parents and those desperate to begin their family, and a delightful mix of comedy and emotions that never gets preachy.

Debut director Raj Mehta deals with a rather serious subject of two couples opting for IVF (In-vitro Fertilisation) with a generous mix of comedy and emotions. An urban comedy with its heart in the right place, Good Newwz just hits the right spot.

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The basic premise of Good Newwz was established in trailer itself. There are the posh Batras — a high-flying journalist Deepti (Kareena) and a sales executive Varun (Akshay) versus the loud Batras — homemaker Monika (Kiara Advani) and god-knows-what-does-he-do-for-a-living Honey (Diljit Dosanjh) from Chandigarh.

After several failed attempts at conceiving a baby naturally, both the couples consult Mumbai’s best fertility doctors (Adil Hussain and his wife Tisca Chopra) and opt for IVF. As they await the good news, the doctor shares a rather negligent sperm mix-up, leaving both the couples in a state of agony and helplessness. A series of hilarious events follow as the couples come to terms with the unusual situation they are in.

The deliberate light-hearted treatment of such a serious subject is entertaining. Even though Mehta gives ample scope to his actors to perform and do what they’re best at, he doesn’t let them step out of the vision he has for the film. Mehta, Jyoti Kapoor and Rishabh Sharma pen some clever and witty dialogues: just like the mix-up of sperms, there’s an uproarious mix-up of words too as sperm becomes spam, flush is pronounced as flesh, honours turns into hawners, morni becomes ovary, and so on. Having said that, a couple of off-track jokes do fall flat but thankfully they are few and far between.

Another thing that works in favour of Good Newwz is its straight narrative which doesn’t complicate the already complicated central premise. Even the transition from comedy to drama, especially in the last one hour, is so finely executed that you don’t realize when you get transported into another zone and when laughter takes a backseat and you feel tears of joys rolling down your cheeks.

The pace of the film is steady with enough high points in both the first and second half; I feel tighter editing, especially in the second half, could have made for a crisper watch. However, you can forgive this as the laughter it brings along is truly worth it.

The cast gets full marks for honest performances. Kareena yet again proves why she’s the best in the business. With a well etched out character, Kareena is especially impressive in the emotional portions. Her Deepti is real and when it comes to her dramatic reactions, no one comes close to how she does it.

Good Newwz again reminds us how good Akshay can be with comedy. In fact, you can call this one of his best comedic performances in the recent times, far from the Housefull brand of cinema. He plays a man-child but is okay taking sarcastic taunts from his wife on a daily basis. And those grey flecks in the hair are really working for him.

As for the other Batras, there’s nary a dull moment when Diljit is on screen. For someone who talks so less in real life, it’s quite an irony that his character has the maximum lines with boisterousness to boot. Kiara also picks up the nuances of her Punjabi character really well but never goes overboard as the flashy Punjabi she plays in the film.

The film keeps it real when it comes to showing urban relationships -- daily lives of married couples, their fights, worries, wanting to have kids and careers etc. Monika is addressed as Moni and Deepti’s husband only calls her Deepu, you know that they’re trying to be as real as possible.

On the flipside, Good Newwz thrives on clichés – whether it is Diljit-Kiara who are loud and flashy as they are from Chandigarh or Delhiites flaunting their brands. Also, in today’s day and age, dialogues such as ‘being pregnant is a blessing for any woman’ or ‘apna khoon/baccha apna hota hai’ feel regressive and out of date.

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Music and dance sequences are fun and captivating though two of them in the second half somewhat deviate from the storytelling. Of course, Chandigarh Mein with a special appearance from Karan Johar, Badshah and Hardy Sandhu was magical and saved for the end credits.

All in all, Good Newwz has the right mix of ingredients and makes for a timely entertainer in this season of cheer. Not preachy or over the top, this light-hearted comic caper is the perfect way to end the year with. It is good news indeed for the audience.

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Overall message is not to judge a book by its cove

Varun and Deepti behave in a snobbish and judgment

Voices are raised, drinks thrown, glasses smashed

Sex is mostly mentioned in relation to trying for

Occasional language includes "s--t" and "f--k," as

Brands are mentioned in passing, including Uber, F

Characters drink beer, wine, whiskey at bars, part

Parents need to know that Good Newwz is a Bollywood romcom about two couples who decide to have IVF treatment to try to start a family. The dialogue is a mix of Hindi and English, making the subtitles easier than usual to follow. Because of the main subject of the movie, sex is discussed often -- mostly in a…

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Overall message is not to judge a book by its cover. Teaches importance of embracing people's differences and that we're ultimately far more similar than we are different. Communication and empathy are important themes. Weight and dieting are discussed on several occasions.

Positive Role Models

Varun and Deepti behave in a snobbish and judgmental manner. Varun lies to Deepti and behaves selfishly, refusing to make sacrifices to have a family and showing very little compassion or understanding. He drinks, smokes, gambles. By comparison, Honey and Monika -- though supposedly the zany and uncouth pair -- are caring and supportive of each other, traits which Varun and Deepti come to realize are more important than anything.

Violence & Scariness

Voices are raised, drinks thrown, glasses smashed during a drunken argument, but nobody is hurt. Mention of miscarriage and abortion.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Sex is mostly mentioned in relation to trying for a baby, with sperm, ovulation, IVF, miscarriage, and abortion all discussed. Medical scenes of insemination and birth. Talk of faking orgasms, sexual positions. Sex is implied -- including in a plane toilet -- but not seen. The covers of adult magazines are shown and dirty talk mentioned when one character gives a semen sample. Some mild flirtation, suggestive dance moves during musical numbers.

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Occasional language includes "s--t" and "f--k," as well as "smart ass," "d--k," and "damn."

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Products & Purchases

Brands are mentioned in passing, including Uber, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Multiple scenes in a Volkswagen showroom.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Characters drink beer, wine, whiskey at bars, parties, at home. One scene where two characters become inebriated and drunkenly get into an argument, abusing the bar owner and smashing a glass. Cigarettes are smoked on a number of occasions, with implication that one may contain pot.

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Parents need to know that Good Newwz is a Bollywood romcom about two couples who decide to have IVF treatment to try to start a family. The dialogue is a mix of Hindi and English, making the subtitles easier than usual to follow. Because of the main subject of the movie, sex is discussed often -- mostly in a biological sense, though some mention is made of sexual pleasure for the sake of humor. There is some strong language, including "s--t" and "f--k." Miscarriage, abortion, adoption, and premature birth are some of the more adult themes introduced. Weight and dieting are also mentioned a few times. There is some depiction of drinking, including a drunken argument that results in smashed glasses. Characters also smoke, and there is a suggestion that one character smokes pot. Despite this, the movie is mostly lighthearted, energetic, and funny, with bold, likable characters and a fast, farcical pace. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In GOOD NEWWZ, sophisticated career couple Deepti Batra ( Kareena Kapoor ) and her husband, Varun ( Akshay Kumar ), visit an IVF clinic after struggling to have a family. But they soon discover that Varun's sample has been mixed up with the sample from a man with the same surname. Now Deepti is pregnant with the biological child of Honey Batra ( Diljit Dosanjh ), and his wife, Monika ( Kiara Advani ), is pregnant with Varun's child. Polar opposites in every way, the two couples must decide whether to keep the babies and, if they have their children, whether to incorporate the biological fathers into their lives. Honey and Monika go all out to become friends with their fellow Batras, moving into the same building and smothering the other couple. But Varun and Deepti want them to sign a contract to stay out of their lives for good. Can they come to an agreement for the sake of their children, or is it bad news for a happily ever after?

Is It Any Good?

From the camera panning across the Mumbai cityscape scored by contemporary music to the odd couple dynamics and the juvenile sex jokes, this is a modern romcom with universal appeal. Bolstered by Bollywood stars Kumar and Kapoor, and with equally strong performances from Dosanjh and Advani, the slick, farcical comedy keeps up the pace from start to finish. The characters are familiar. Kumar and Kapoor are the stylish city workaholics who have become completely disconnected from those outside their high-flying lifestyle. Meanwhile Dosanjh and Advani get to have a little more fun with their larger-than-life Punjabi characters, whose incorrect use of English brings the other Batras great amusement.

Tracking the pregnancies side by side, Good Newwz offers a poignant disparity between the way the couples communicate, entering well-trodden territory about priorities and what's important in life. This allows for some heartwarming and tear-jerking scenes -- particularly toward the end of the movie. Physical gags are as well executed as one-liners, and energy resonates from all four main actors. Supporting characters are equally well drawn, particularly IVF doctors Anand and Sandhya Joshi ( Adil Hussain and Tisca Chopra ). The two main song and dance numbers are vibrant, colorful, and full of personality, which perfectly sums up this Bollywood hit.

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Families can talk about Good Newwz 's attitude toward sex . What does it mean for the characters involved? Parents, talk to your teens about your own values regarding sex and relationships.

Discuss the movie's humor. What made you laugh? Can you think of any Hollywood movies with a similar sense of humor?

What does the movie say about the nature of family? What are some of the different -- and sometimes unconventional -- structures that make up modern families?

The character of Varun goes on the biggest journey. How does he change from the start of the movie to the end?

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Movie Details

• In theaters : December 27, 2019
• On DVD or streaming : February 22, 2020
• Cast : Akshay Kumar , Kareena Kapoor , Diljit Dosanjh
• Director : Raj Mehta
• Inclusion Information : Indian/South Asian actors, Female actors
• Studio : Cinestaan Film Company
• Genre : Comedy
• Character Strengths : Communication , Empathy
• Run time : 132 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : October 8, 2022

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Good Newwz movie review: Akshay-Kareena starrer is not half bad

Good newwz movie review: good newwz works best when it is being its bawdy, silly, raucous self. it dips when it veers towards bring-out-the-hankies emotion bowing to the dictum of ‘how can a bollywood film not make you laugh and cry at the same time’..

Good Newwz movie cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Diljit Dosanjh, Kiara Advani, Adil Hussain, Tisca Chopra, Anjana Sukhani Good Newwz movie director: Raj Mehta Good Newwz movie rating: 3 stars

Two couples with the same names, sperm samples, in-vitro fertilization, and a switcheroo which has far-reaching, haha, consequences: is this really a Bollywood film?

Just going by the fairly novel premise, I have to hand it to Good Newwz: so refreshing to have something so out-of-the-box (another word for ‘risky’) come out of an industry whose default option is to play safe by churning out tired, jaded sequels of tired, jaded super-starry vehicles.

Here are your regular people, even if they wear make-up in bed, and are beautifully styled out of it (the first set of Batras), and are a walking-talking clichéd represenation of the loud, well-off Punjabi (the second set), united with the rest of us in their desire to produce their own offspring. Adoption? ‘Haye nahin, apna khoon toh apna hota hai’.

So here’s your foursome, Varun (Kumar) and Deepu aka Deepti (Khan) and Honey (Dosanjh) and Monika (Advani) getting up close and very, very personal over a lab technician’s mistake. The result, for both the Batra sets who have been trying very hard to become parents, is both gratifying and problematic: who has more rights over the bun in the oven?

The question comes right at the halfway mark, leaving us intrigued. How will Good Newwz solve this problem? When sperms and eggs need fertility specialists—a smilingly unctuous doctor couple played by Adil Hussain and Tisca Chopra—to reach their conclusion, does it disturb the natural order of things? Or is this scientific intervention one of the best ways out for a desperate couple? Going by the spirit of the film, it junks seriousness, choosing cheesiness, and we are set up for laughter.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first half, with its easy, spiky banter between Varun and Deepu, as they (she more than he) stare at the right date on the ovulating calendar, and get down to the job, her pushing, him pulling: sex strictly for procreation can be a chore. Haha. Good to see Akshay Kumar a) not being a flag-waving-nationalist-patriot b) owning up to grey-stubble-on-chin, and c) reminding us just how funny he can be. Kapoor Khan has not a single hair out of place even when she needs to appear ruffled, filling out the role perfectly. Dosanjh’s consummate turn manages to overcome the top-to-toe velvety-bling he’s togged out in; I only wish Advani had a little more to do, even if her dutiful mata rani worshipping, pinni-eating Punjabi wife look is spot on. Chopra offers able support, and Hussain’s straight-faced, praying-to-the-almighty doc is an absolute hoot.

If the film had stayed true to its broad comedic bone, it would have been the perfect antidote to these grim times. But no, it dives into melodrama with the full complement of violins wailing in the background, giving the macho male stars a teary scene. Why not be confident, even of the elitist lines leading to cheap laughs mouthed by a character? Kareena Kapoor Khan has the money monologue, in which she speaks frankly and openly about the impact of pregnancy on a female body: when did you hear of an A lister talk of how bouts of involuntary and embarrassing peeing become part of this ‘aurat-sirf-ma-banane-ke-liye-paida-hoti-hai’ schtick Bollywood has been doused with?

Also, for a film that comes from the Dharma stable which is usually so careful about aesthetics, it’s surprising how some of the sets look so patently like sets: I was particularly struck by a gol-guppa-eating sequence which comes off more contrived than touching because even the sudden shower that comes down on the characters feels like it’s been manufactured by a rain machine just beyond our vision.

The film works best when it is being its bawdy, silly, raucous self. It dips when it veers towards bring-out-the-hankies emotion bowing to the dictum of ‘how can a Bollywood film not make you laugh and cry at the same time’. When will filmmakers get past this hoary belief?

That being said, you can see that this is a film that’s been written, not assembled on the fly. And that’s really the best news. The characters are distinct, there’s a flow, and at the film’s core, an idea. It dips here and there, sure, but never abandons its cheery gallop to the finish line. Net net, Good Newwz is not half bad.

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May  additions so far: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes . Upgraded . The Last Stop in Yuma County . The Fall Guy . The Three Musketeers: Part II – Milady . The Idea of You . Hit Man . The Dead Don’t Hurt . Aisha . Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara.  In a Violent Nature .  Babes .  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga . 

Horror had an unexpectedly strong month in April , with Universal monster movie Abigail , Nic Cage action-hybrid Arcadian , The First Omen reviving the dormant franchise, and indies I Saw the TV Glow ,  Blackout , and  Infested . A24 had their first #1 box office-debuting film with the heated Civil War . Zendaya continued her Certified Fresh streak with Challengers , and Dev Patel made a major directorial debut with Monkey Man ,  which had its own long journey to go from being dumped on Netflix to theatrical major studio distribution.  Nowhere Special   becomes the highest-rated movie of the year.

In March : Love Lies Bleeding and Problemista , both from A24 . One Life , starring Anthony Hopkins. Ordinary Angels , starring Hilary Swank. In horror, we got You’ll Never Find Me and  Late Night with the Devil , the latter which also tops our best horror of 2024 list . Dialogue-free animation Robot Dreams and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World jockeying for the top spot here.

And what about February ? Dune pretty good, thanks for asking. Part Two went Certified Fresh within an hour after the reviews embargo lifted on February 21st. With it outclassing the first Dune , we took a look at 20 sequels that got better Tomatometer scores than their originals . Otherwise, things got freaky with horror film Stopmotion and the comic zaniness of Hundreds of Beavers taking the crown for the best-reviewed of the year.

We didn’t have a blockbuster January like we did in 2023 ‘s, when genre surprises M3GAN and Plane went Certified Fresh. But Daisy Ridley got her post-Skywalker win with Sometimes I Think About Dying . Mads Mikkelsen re-teamed with his A Royal Affair director Nikolaj Arcel to find The Promised Land. With The Crime Is Mine , Francois Ozon is getting career-best reviews, and his 10th Certified Fresh film over the past decade-and-change. And Netflix scored with The Kitchen , Orion and the Dark , and Good Grief .

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Babes (2024) 92%

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90%

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The Idea of You (2024) 82%

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You'll Never Find Me (2023) 80%

Wicked Little Letters (2023) 79%

Blood for Dust (2023) 78%

Scoop (2024) 78%

Upgraded (2024) 77%

Suncoast (2024) 76%

Good Grief (2023) 76%

Blackout (2023) 76%

Drift (2023) 75%

Self Reliance (2023) 72%

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There’s an old-fashioned aesthetic in “News of the World” that might make it easy to dismiss as a “dad movie," something that plays on TNT in regular rotation for the next decade (which it almost certainly will), but this kind of finely-calibrated genre film is harder to pull off than it looks. There’s an attention to detail in every corner of this movie, including not just the period recreation but everything from James Newton Howard ’s lovely score to Tom Hanks ’ subtle performance. There’s something comforting about giving yourself over to an undeniably talented group of artists for two hours and just letting them tell you a story. That’s what this will be for many this holiday season. Yes, it’s relatively predictable and arguably a little thin in terms of ambition, but it’s also refined and nuanced in ways that these films often aren’t. Everyone here is at the top of their craft from the character actors who populate the ensemble to the two leads at its center to everyone behind the camera, and you can feel that from first frame to last.

Hanks reunites with his “ Captain Phillips ” director Paul Greengrass to play a very different kind of Captain in Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a traveler in Texas in 1870, not long after the end of the Civil War. Kidd is a newsreader, someone who travels from town to town and literally gets paid to read the news to the locals. Home delivery wasn’t a thing 150 years ago and many people in these small towns couldn’t even read, so they relied on people like Kidd to tell them what’s going on in the world. The chosen profession has made him something of an isolated wanderer, but it's also imbued a deep humanity in Kidd that has given him the air of an old-fashioned storyteller. He’s an entertainer as much as an informer, choosing what to read and how to present it. His travels and encounters also mean he can read people better than most, which will be essential for the next chapter of his life.

That starts when he comes across the scene of a murder. A Black driver has been hanged from a tree and a blonde girl looks at Kidd from the woods nearby. Kidd decides to take the girl he names Johanna (the excellent Helena Zengel ) to safety, even though she speaks no English and appears to have spent much of her young life in the captivity of Native Americans. She comes from German lineage but speaks Kiowa, and she was being taken to the authorities after the tribe who raised her was killed. Kidd realizes he will have to find this orphan a home.

These early scenes may be simple in narrative structure but Greengrass, Hanks, and the team behind the film add so much grace and nuance to them. Hanks has become such a subtle actor over the years, finding the little beats to define Kidd at every turn but never feeling showy. He’s so completely in the moment in this film, responding to each situation believably instead of sinking into the bland protagonist that could have hampered this film. It’s yet another recent turn of his that feels like it won’t get enough attention because he makes it look so easy (see also “Captain Phillips,” “ Bridge of Spies ” and “ Sully ,” among others).

“News of the World” becomes a road movie of sorts for Kidd and Johanna, with new encounters across the unstable landscape. (After the end of the Civil War, Texas was not exactly the safest place in the country.) Greengrass structures it in an episodic way that kind of detracts from the midsection, where the film sags a bit as it jumps from encounter to encounter. The set-up is so well done that watching the movie settle into a road trip may be a bit disappointing, although Greengrass brings out some of his action movie direction skills when they’re needed, such as in a tense shoot-out with some scumbags who try to buy Johanna. However, there’s a better version of “News of the World” that has slightly higher stakes. As difficult as the journey is, neither Kidd nor Johanna have a bruise or scar to show, even after jumping from a runaway horse and cart.

Greengrass is also smart enough to imbue his 1870 Western with some 2020 ideas. Kidd finds his way to Erath County, where the atmosphere is one of isolation and, sorry, fake news. The most prominent figure in the area, Mr. Farley ( Thomas Francis Murphy ) insists that Kidd read his propaganda newspaper about pushing out everyone from the area but the white people, and connections to disinformation in the modern age are not hard to make. And the idea of a man trying to bring a fractured nation back together through knowledge and decency has some relevance in 2020 too.

Not all of these themes are fully fleshed out, but “News of the World” stays together and stays entertaining because of its top-notch craft. It may feel like Greengrass’ most traditional film but there’s an energy to the direction here that’s not always apparent in a Western. It helps that it’s arguably the director’s most aesthetically striking film, with gorgeous vistas captured by Darius Wolski and one of the best scores of the year from James Newton Howard. And it’s so great to see so many wonderful faces filling out the cast like Ray McKinnon , Elizabeth Marvel , and Bill Camp . On paper, this simple tale well-told may not seem like it amounts to much, but, at the end of a year in which comfort was hard to find, this movie sometimes feels like a gift.

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News of the World (2020)

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Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd

Helena Zengel as Johanna Leonberger

Fred Hechinger

Michael Angelo Covino

Thomas Francis Murphy as Merritt Farley

Elizabeth Marvel as Gannett

Mare Winningham as Jane

Neil Sandilands as Wilhelm Leonberger

Chukwudi Iwuji as Charles Edgefield

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Renner was run over by a 7-ton snowplow on New Year’s Day 2023. He was thrown off the machine while clearing his driveway. When Renner attempted to stop the snowplow as it moved downhill toward his nephew, he was caught in the machine’s path, ultimately leaving him in critical condition. The accident left him with 38 broken bones and a collapsed lung, along with significant chest trauma.

“I relive it every night,” Renner told The Times in May. “It’s in my visions. It’s in my dreams and my waking thoughts.”

Doctors originally said it would take him years to walk, Renner told The Times. Due to his self-proclaimed stubbornness, he was walking with a cane in three months.

He told The Times that recovery is a “one-way street,” saying, “It’s not even [like] a piece of Ikea furniture — there are no directions. You go one direction: You get better. How easy is that? Just remember what you did yesterday, or couldn’t do, and then try to do it today.”

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Renner returned to acting in January, shooting Season 3 of the Paramount+ show “Mayor of Kingstown,” which premieres on Sunday.

“To try to create some truth and then get the audience to believe it, while I’m just trying to learn to walk again, to put one foot in front of the other and not get up in agony. I’m doing all these things to find my footing on the planet again,” Renner said.

Season 2 of “Mayor of Kingstown” premiered just two weeks after Renner’s accident. The show, created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon, is set in a prison town in which Renner plays the titular mayor. It explores themes of racism and corruption within the American for-profit prison industry.

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Kimberly Aguirre is an Entertainment & Arts intern at the Los Angeles Times. She studies journalism at the University of Southern California, where she is also the editor in chief of the Daily Trojan.

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