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Tulsa King Recap: School’s Out
When the show isn’t concerned with cheap culture-war conflicts, it devolves into something far uglier.
In a cold open that could have been co-written by a Moms for Liberty chapter, Tulsa King lets its charming troglodyte anti(ish)-hero Dwight Manfredi take a few swings at the state of modern education in the form of the cartoonish progressive day school to which his grandchildren are to be sent. Maybe there’s a good reason to include a scene in which a flock of undocumented Asian immigrants gets beaten with baseball bats on your show in 2024, but “it gives septuagenarian Sylvester Stallone a chance to look tough” isn’t it. While it’s true that Mohawk “Skywalkers” are responsible for constructing many of the most famous buildings in New York in particular, it’s less an innate absence of acrophobia and more a Dune Bene Gesserit mastery-of-fear kind of thing, according to many of the workers; for his part, Jimmy chalks up the connection to the trade to a matter of taking jobs no one else would.
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