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Review: 'The Sopranos' meets 'Yellowstone' in Stallone's likable crime comedy 'Tulsa King'

Sylvester Stallone as Dwight "The General" Manfredi of the Paramount+ original series "Tulsa King."

LOS ANGELES — It's 2022, for a little while yet, and Sylvester Stallone, 76, is starring in his first scripted television series, the likable crime comedy "Tulsa King," which premiered Sunday on Paramount+.

Stallone plays Dwight David Manfredi, "a mug lately out of the jug," in Frank Loesser's immortal phrase. Dwight, a Mafia panjandrum, has spent 25 years in prison, having taken the rap (as far as I can figure) for his boss "whacking a guy I actually liked who didn't deserve it" — so complicated, the mob life — and

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