Tulsa King is a Paramount+ comedy-drama created by Taylor Sheridan and starring Sylvester Stallone as Dwight 'The General' Manfredi, a New York mob boss exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma after a 25-year prison sentence. It blends fish-out-of-water comedy with mob drama and has a surprisingly warm character study at its center.
Tulsa King's charm is real. Sylvester Stallone — in his first major television role — delivers a genuinely warm, funny performance as a 75-year-old mob boss navigating the foreign country of contemporary Tulsa. The comedy of a New York mobster encountering cannabis dispensaries, rodeos, and friendly Midwesterners generates genuine humor. The character study of a man out of time is unexpectedly moving.
The show's premise is that its protagonist — a mob enforcer who served 25 years for refusing to rat out his boss — is building a new criminal empire in Tulsa. The violence and intimidation that are the tools of mob business are depicted throughout. The show treats mob ethics with a kind of amused affection that normalizes organized crime as a lifestyle choice rather than depicting its genuine harm.
Consistent profanity (the mob dialogue is authentically crude), violence (mob beatings and intimidation), and the normalization of criminal enterprise are the primary content concerns. Unlike shows with redemptive arcs, Tulsa King celebrates its protagonist's criminal identity as a source of his charm and competence. Philippians 4:8's standard of what is "just, pure, lovely, and admirable" is not met. See our Yellowstone review for comparison.
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