Published Oct 10, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT
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Taylor Sheridan has built a small television empire over the last few years, but one of his biggest hits doesn’t have a cowboy, an oil rig or a Montana ranch anywhere in sight. Instead, it took Sylvester Stallone, sent him to Oklahoma after 25 years in prison, and gave him the chance to build a criminal empire from scratch. Three seasons later, Sheridan’s answer to The Sopranos is almost back.
Tulsa King officially returns in one week, with Season 4 premiering on Paramount+ on Friday, October 16. Dwight Manfredi and the entire gang are fighting to legitimize his empire and protect themselves as corrupt politicians, new threats and devastating losses hit from every side, and every hard-won gain comes with even harder truths: about loyalty, leadership, and the cost of ambition. Each move drags Dwight deeper into the street instincts he left behind in New York, and it all threatens to turn Oklahoma into a war zone as the battle for Tulsa truly heats up.
Stallone (Rocky) returns as Dwight alongside Martin Starr (Silicon Valley), Jay Will (It Doesn’t Matter), **Vincent Piazza **(Boardwalk Empire), Annabella Sciorra (The Sopranos), Chris Caldovino (The Sopranos), McKenna Quigley Harrington (The Wolf of Wall Street), Frank Grillo (The Purge: Anarchy), and Mike “Cash Flo” Walden. The ensemble also includes James Russo (Django Unchained), Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects), **Neal McDonough **(Justified), Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy), and Dana Delany (Desperate Housewives), while Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire) joins the cast as a new series regular for Season 4.
The fourth season also arrives just as Tulsa King prepares to spin off into Frisco King, which sees Samuel L. Jackson reprising his role as Russell Lee Washington Jr., following his cameo appearance in the Season 3 finale. Frisco King, which also stars Asa Germann and Lila Pate, will debut in 2027 on Paramount+.
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
The new trailer made one thing pretty clear: Dwight isn’t getting much time to enjoy what he’s built. Corrupt politicians and new enemies are closing in, while a major personal loss puts even more pressure on him and the people around him. The more Dwight tries to move his operation away from the streets, the more he’s forced to rely on the same instincts that kept him alive in New York.
Tulsa King Season 4 premieres October 16 exclusively on Paramount+.
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