Stallone plays a New York gangster learning the ropes in Oklahoma in Paramount+'s new dramedy from Sheridan and Terence Winter.
Stallone plays Dwight Manfredi, a former mafia capo released after spending 25 years in prison. Dwight served time in part because he refused to flip on the local godfather . He doesn’t expect a parade or anything, but he hopes for some sign of gratitude. With the godfather’s son in charge, Dwight finds himself generally superfluous and he’s tasked with going to Tulsa to “open things up.” Why Tulsa? I guess that’s part of the point.
The modern world, you see, is not the way it was when Dwight left. The list of things that Dwight does not get about 2022 includes: Uber; the aforementioned legalized weed; people using credit cards instead of cash; coffee-shop serving containers; kids today and their pronouns.“Seriously. What’s going on with this country in general nowadays?” Dwight asks in the second episode.
The first is that the gangster side of the series is plenty derivative as well. Winter made his bones, of course, as one of David Chase’s primary capos on, a show that illogically spun Mafia clichés and beats of sitcom shtick into absolute gold, using a fusion of familiar elements that somehow produced something fresh. And maybewere the central mobsters this indistinct, their vernacular this drained of color.
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