Tv currently abounds with ‘I thought they were
dead’ revival projects: series in which your favourite 1980s movie stars are given a new
lease of life and you are reminded – with luck – how much you loved them. Kevin Costner is doing very well in Yellowstone; Ralph Macchio is milking the Karate Kid legacy for all it’s worth
in Cobra Kai; Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow had a decent run in The Old Man. Now it’s the turn of Sylvester Stallone in Tulsa King.
An icon of the action movie genre for much of his career, Sylvester Stallone makes his first
foray into serial television with Taylor Sheridan and Terence Winter’s Tulsa King. “There’s nothing left for you here, we can’t just rewind the clock,” Dwight Manfredi (Stallone) is told upon stepping out of prison after 25 years. He did his time and kept his mouth shut to protect his family only to find out that the kids have taken over. With no use for him in New York, the family sends him to set up an operation of his own in Tulsa, where—with his sharp suits, slick shades, and wise-guy swagger—he sticks out like a gold pinky ring.
In Stallone’s first-ever TV series, he plays a character very close to himself, who feels disconnected from the modern world.
Who is it Dwight Manfredi?
Dwight "The General" Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone), a New York mafia capo, has just been released from prison after 25 years and is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters in order to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet in the series premiere episode "Go West, Old Man."
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