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T10 WHATS UP! November 13 - 19, 2022 shows Dwight telling Stacy, who remarks on his hearty ap- petite following a dangerous event, "If I stopped eating ev- ery time somebody tried to hurt me, I'd be a skeleton." Stallone's charm makes for a mobster who you can't help but root for. He's a perfect anti- hero. There is also stellar talent behind the scenes of "Tulsa King," including series creator Taylor Sheridan, who may be best recognized as the writer and director of the critically lauded 2015 film "Sicario" or as the creator of the fellow smash-hit Paramount+ series "Yellowstone." Having also written 2017's "Wind River" and the Academy Award-nom- inated 2016 film "Hell or High Water," Sheridan is considered to be one of the best writers in TV and film's neo-western genre. For a bit more mob gravitas, Sheridan teamed up with "Vi- nyl" and "Boardwalk Empire" creator Terence Winter, whose works often have an admitted- ly recognizable style that straddles darkness and period- specific class. While many viewers may have started knitting or baking sourdough during the lock- down, "Tulsa King" was Sheri- dan's pandemic project. In an April interview with Variety, the creator revealed how the series came together remark- ably quickly. Sheridan noted that he was inspired to create "Tulsa King" following a call with a producer who said, "All you need, in my opinion, to have an interesting TV show is take a really fascinating char- acter and drop them in a world that we don't know anything about." Two days later, Sheridan says, he emerged with a script and called Stallone for the role. Following an ecstatic "I love it. When do we shoot it?" from the action star, plans were made and contracts were drawn. In a later interview with En- tertainment Tonight, Stallone expressed his excitement for the opportunity, saying, "I've always wanted to play a gang- ster, but it never happened." The series' lighter humor and fish-out-of-water scenario set "Tulsa King" apart from Sheridan's other Paramount+ programs, "Yellowstone" and "1883," but the series maintains all the important aspects of a high-stakes action drama — this time pivoting away from the western genre and instead using a western backdrop as a counterpoint to big-city crime. Don't miss Stallone's TV de- but when the first two epi- sodes of "Tulsa King," land on Paramount+ and Paramount TV Sunday, Nov. 13. continued from page T2 Heading west: East coast mobster Oklahoma-bound in 'Tulsa King' TV FEATURE A.C. Peterson, Domenick Lombardozzi and Chris Caldovino in "Tulsa King"