Jim H

the scene where Dwight "The General" Manfreddi extorts a legal marijuana dispensary is just bad writing. Like, seriously??? Is this supposed to be funny - it's not. Is it supposed to be tense - it's not. Tulsa is not a big Mafia city like New York. It's neither widespread nor expected for business owners to be extorted by Italian-American gangsters in Tulsa. In real life, the owner would have simply called the police on "The General." The scene is nonsensical. The series steals all of Manfreddi's backstory from Jack Bristow's novel "Hard Time," a book by an author with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Disease. We can only imagine the discussions between Taylor Sheridan and whatever harebrained Paramount Plus executive greenlighted this project. Sheridan: I've got an idea for a series. Executive: I'm all ears. Sheridan: Well, it's not really my own idea. I stole the story from a disabled writer. But you know how in Hollywood we're starved for ideas and originality? Well, I can't come up with anything better. So I was thinking about lifting this Bristow guy's story. Executive: Beautiful! --The book is better than the series. I know it sounds cliched to say that, but it's true. Avoid "Tulsa King."