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After being released from prison after 25 years, New York mob boss Dwight «The General» Manfredi is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sylvester Stallone’s first starring role in a television series. Dwight «The General» Manfredi: I really don’t go to church.
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The opening credits sequence shows various photographic and painted views and landmarks of Oklahoma imposed on the New York City landscape: A statue of Sioux Indian chief «Touch the Clouds» wearing a war bonnet and a bone choker (breastplate) imposed on top of the Brooklyn Bridge The Golden Driller statue imposed on the Statue of Liberty Route 66 Western Gateway Arch imposed on a major «avenue» in Manhattan. In New York City, in the borough of Manhattan, there are several numbered «avenues» that are intersected by smaller numbered streets. Sylvester Stallone absolutely kills it in Tulsa King!
Sheridan continues to hit home run after home run
For Stallone to do a TV series, you knew it had to be a good script and of course, it would have to be with Taylor Sheridan as the creator. He is the best thing happening on television right now with incredible shows like Yellowstone, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown, etc. And movies like Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River.
I mean, come on?
Everything he touches turns to gold. Plus, one of the other writers is Terence Winter who wrote shows like The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. There was no way this show was going to be bad with these two at the helm.
Stallone plays a very likable badass to perfection
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