Taylor Sheridan’s small-screen domination continues. Alongside the immensely popular Yellowstone franchise, Sheridan’s recent crime drama Tulsa King has established itself as one of Paramount+‘s most high-profile original TV series to date.
Season one of the Sylvester Stallone-starring series follows the gripping tale of Dwight “The General” Manfredi, a New York Mafia capo, who after serving a 25-year prison sentence is banished to Tulsa, Oklahoma, by his crime boss. In unfamiliar and uncharted territory, Dwight seizes the opportunity, swiftly setting up shop and recruiting new members to build his own criminal empire from scratch.
Season 1 ended with a bang, and with season 2 well underway we’ve got a good idea of where the show is headed this season and beyond. Read on, but beware spoilers!
What’s Happening in ‘Tulsa King’ Season 2?
By the end of season 1 Stallone’s Manfredi had ruffled quite a few feathers and, in true cliffhanger fashion, left us all in the lurch. After killing former ally Nico Bugliosi, who had sexually assaulted Tina, Manfredi’s daughter, while he spent time in prison, the mob boss took aim at his gangland rival Caolan Waltrip. After stealing Waltrip’s money, Manfredi shoots the man dead, leaving no one in his way, though opening himself up to retaliation from his former New York mob family.
At the 11th hour, however, the ATF raid Manfredi’s bar-turned-casino and arrest him. The kingpin was betrayed by friend and struggling ATF agent Stacey Beale (though, honestly, what mafia boss would befriend an ATF agent and not see this coming is beyond me), who gave up compromising information about Manfredi in order to save her career.
In season 2, we picked up with Manfredi quickly making bail and immediately returning to his life of crime. He has a casino to launch, and a drug empire to build, but things immediately get complicated by the arrival of a rival kingpin Cal Thresher, as well as unwanted interest from Kansas City mobster Bill Bevilaqua and, you guessed it, his old friends in New York.
Thresher, played by Neal McDonough, delivers an uneasy resistance to Manfredi’s operations: preferring to undermine his work, rather than causing open warfare. Bevilaqua, on the other hand, is more than happy to throw down in order to keep Manfredi in line.
The show is ongoing, so we don’t quite know Manfredi’s fate yet, but if Stallone is involved you can bet there’ll be a lot of punching and gunpowder.
Cast of ‘Tulsa King’ Season 2
The season one finale didn’t take anyone down from Manfredi’s crew, so a lot of our favourite characters return to the cast of Tulsa King for the new instalment. Stallone’s New York mafia capo is back in action, as are many of the same faces from last season – as well as a few new ones.
- Sylvester Stallone as Dwight Manfredi
- Martin Starr as Bodhi
- Jay Will as Tyson
- Max Casella as Armand Truisi
- Vincent Piazza as Vince Antonacci
- Tatiana Zappardino as Tina Manfredi
- Annabella Sciorra as Joanne
- Neal McDonough as Cal Thresher
- Frank Grillo as Bill Bevilaqua
- Domenick Lombardozzi as Charles ‘Chickie’ Invernizzi
- Andrea Savage as Stacy Beale
- Garrett Hedlund as Mitch Keller
- Dana Delany as Margaret Devereaux
Where to Watch ‘Tulsa King’?
If you’re looking for some thrilling entertainment, Tulsa King on Paramount Plus is worth checking out. With nine Tulsa King episodes in season one, you can binge-watch them all on the streaming platform. To get started, simply sign up for Paramount Plus or look for it as a channel on select services like Prime Video.
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