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Nondescript Character: Where do you pray?
Story
Following his release from prison, mob boss Dwight “The General” Manfredi goes into exile in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he builds a new criminal empire with a cast of unlikely characters. Sylvester Stallone’s first starring role in a television series. Dwight “The General” Manfredi: I don’t really go to church.
Featured on CBS News Sunday Morning: Episode #457 (2022)
The opening credits sequence shows various photographic and painted vistas as well as Oklahoma landmarks imposed upon the New York City landscape: A statue of Sioux Indian chief “Touch the Clouds” wearing a war bonnet and bone choker necklace (breastplate) imposed on top of the Brooklyn Bridge The Golden Driller statue imposed on the Statue of Liberty The Western Gateway Arch of Route 66 imposed on a major Manhattan “avenues.” In New York City, in the borough of Manhattan, there are several numbered “avenues” that are criss-crossed by smaller numbered streets. Sylvester Stallone totally rips it in Tulsa King! For Stallone to do a TV show, you knew it had to be a good script and of course it would be with Taylor Sheridan as the creator.
Everything he touches turns to gold
Sheridan just keeps hitting home run after home run. It’s the best thing going on TV right now with amazing shows like Yellowstone, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown, etc. And movies like Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River.
Stallone plays a very likable tough guy to perfection
Plus, one of the other writers is Terence Winter who wrote shows like The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. I mean come on, there was no way this show was going to be bad with those two at the helm. It’s got everything you want in a good show…drama, violence, comedy, etc.
