Taylor Sheridan's 3-Part Crime Epic Is 'Yellowstone' Meets 'The Sopranos'

Taylor Sheridan enlisted one of The Sopranos' head writers to steer a three-part crime epic that marries his gritty melodrama with dark gangster humor. Tulsa King, set to return for a fourth season this fall, plays as a fish-out-of-water story about a grizzled New York mobster transplanted to a sleepy Midwestern town.

Sylvester Stallone leads as Dwight Manfredi, a hardened 70-year-old mafioso released after a 25-year prison term. Ordered to leave New York and establish himself in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Manfredi struggles to adapt to a quieter life while assembling a crew of locals and facing hostile rival gangs.

Sheridan created the series but handed the show’s humorous conceit to Terence Winter, the veteran writer from The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. Winter began as showrunner in Season 1 before creative differences demoted him to head writer; after Dave Erickson ran Season 3 and Winter left to work on Sammy the Bull for FX, Stallone lobbied for his return and Winter agreed to come back as head writer for Season 4.

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