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SQUID_FUCKER t1_iw87uc3 wrote

I just watched the first episode. It's okay, there's potential here. It moves very quick setting everything up, to the point where it sort of strains the plot. I wouldn't mind if they slowed it down a bit. Within the opening minutes he's out of prison, punching a capo in the mob, arguing with the head boss and then gets shipped off to Tulsa (I guess after 25 years in prison you have no parole officers you need to report to?) where he gets in a cab, fights with the driver and then just points at the first thing that catches his attention (a dispensary) and goes in and just bullies everyone into doing what he asks.

Which I guess is the whole point here, he's a NY mobster in a city where they're supposedly not used to people operating like this which is what gets him a foothold.

Stallone is fun to watch though, there's no denying that. His whole 'sick of this shit' attitude as he stomps around punching people and threatening everyone is pretty hilarious.

I'm curious to see where it goes. I think I was expecting something more serious and gritty like Mayor of Kingstown and that's definitely not this. It's more light and humorous than anything so far.

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Stymie999 t1_iw9w8ue wrote

I’m curious where it goes too… I think people think a place like Tulsa there is no “muscle” / competition in town because of limited to no Italian organized crime. But, I’m pretty sure it exists in a different form… which I bet Dwight discovers soon enough,

Put it like this, there is no mob in the Duttons corner of Montana.. but as we have seen, there are quite a few “hard” people out there that don’t take kindly to strangers muscling into their territory.

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drunkwasabeherder t1_iwbrgtn wrote

Back in the mid eighties in my Year 12 at school, I did work experience with the local police here in Queensland, Australia. Small town, probably only about 30,000 or so at that stage. Don't ask me how the teachers arranged it but I was spoken to by the the principal and nearly every head teacher under him before I went for the couple of weeks. The amount of crime I saw and read about through the reports was unbelievable. Real eye opener. Mostly small stuff but everything up to drug dealing and I heard the stories about retrieving bodies, etc. Tulsa pop is 400,000 at present, there'd be plenty of crime :)

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SQUID_FUCKER t1_iwb4umn wrote

> But, I’m pretty sure it exists in a different form… which I bet Dwight discovers soon enough, > >

Yeah I have a pretty good feeling this is gonna happen.

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iamiam36 t1_iw90pwn wrote

> I guess after 25 years in prison you have no parole officers you need to report to?

Was he out on parole?

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AnotherNguyen2 t1_iwaoh61 wrote

It's kind of ridiculous. You can't just walk into businesses, attack them, and talk them into giving you money on a regular basis. Those dudes at the CBD store would have called the police and taken it to social media. Dwight would have been sent back to prison.

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SQUID_FUCKER t1_iwb4t3o wrote

Well, yeah, I mean I'm not getting that the show is going for total realism here. It feels like a pulpy, mobster melodrama. But who knows, maybe they'll reveal in later episodes that there is a reason that Bhodi didn't call the police on Dwight. Like he's doing some shady shit on the side or something.

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AnotherNguyen2 t1_iwcazra wrote

>maybe they'll reveal in later episodes that there is a reason that Bhodi didn't call the police on Dwight. Like he's doing some shady shit on the side or something.

That's plausible. Have an upvote.

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Forsythebubba t1_ix8zhdz wrote

Somebody never been face to face with a real gangster before.

Lmao!!!!

It happens exactly like that.

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python_noob_001 t1_iwaejja wrote

I think this is the way a lot of stuff Stallone is cast in, thin plot but fun. He's stayed relevant with this angle into his late seventies while many of his contemporaries in action stuff did not

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NoCashNoDeal t1_iwfb7qs wrote

> thin plot but fun. He's stayed relevant with this angle into his late seventies

Yeah I think part of Stalone's charm is he kinda can lean into his goofy old guy schitck and kinda be in on the joke a little? Like in Balboa when he goes to fight the new fighter and his intro music is old timey stuff. He rolls with it but it's a little tongue in cheek and it's nice he doesn't take himself too seriously.

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Streetlighttimes7 t1_iwam3iq wrote

The reason he stops at the dispensary is because he knows that operating a weed shop has vulnerabilities that make it susepftable to exploitation and protection. Hes a wise gangster and this is revealed as he talks to bohi. I think viewers and some reviews are not getting the pace yet. They want huge returns in the first episodes, but it feels like the writers strategy is figure out how to grip emotions as they go. The violence seems campy for some because he's not really contested when he knocks a dude out cold with a metal mug or punches the air out of a coyboys stomach at the strip club, but hey he probably looks like he could call hit from the bosses back home but wouldn't. Well just have to see if it gets anywhere emotionally. Sly has Golden Globes and Oscar's so well see if Sheridan can get us in the blood pumping cowboy masculine mood even in these changing times. A good artist can create the nasty red tone regardless of whether there are is any trumpish masculine sincerity to question left.

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SQUID_FUCKER t1_iwb4nxq wrote

Yeah, I obviously understand why he chose the dispensary, it's just the way it happened that felt a little rushed. With him pointing at the building, asking the driver, 'what's that?' and then going, 'stop there' It just all felt a little random.

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hebreuhammer t1_iwq1wah wrote

I am fine with most of the dumb stuff in the show as it’s clearly not meant to be taken too seriously but the black driver stereotype was the one thing that really annoyed me. When he meekly pulls up to the motel and was like “the white man wouldn’t sell me the car, please defend my honor” - like cmon.

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SQUID_FUCKER t1_iwqcgww wrote

Yeah, I didn't catch that at the time but in retrospect it is a little ridiculous. It's also just another ham-fisted way of letting the audience know, 'Hey, he's a gangster but he's one of the good guys! Look at him defend the honor of this black guy!'

In reality, let's not kid ourselves, Dwight would probably be racist as fuck.

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KevinOFartsnake t1_iwa538r wrote

I've been reading your comments since that awful fox reality show Utopia btw and I am actually interested now after reading that.

Too bad Paramount+ is so rough

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