Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan has found even more success with his latest cowboy/mafia drama, Tulsa King. The show centers around a mobster who is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma after finishing a lengthy prison sentence. After assembling a rag-tag crew of misfits, Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) seeks to build his own family and take over Tulsa. With the show’s success, there is much anticipation around the second season, which is further compounded by Paramount releasing very limited Tulsa King season 2 updates.
Although it seemed like Dwight and company would have a happy ending, the finale ended on a cliffhanger. Dwight was finally caught by the ATF/FBI. With the last scene of Tulsa King season 1 showing Dwight’s daughter Tina (Tatiana Zappardino) reliving her traumatic childhood by watching her father leave in handcuffs again, the ending left many questions unanswered. However, some good news is that Paramount+’s Tulsa King has been renewed for a second season. Here are all the latest Tulsa King season 2 updates audiences might’ve missed.
Tulsa King Season 2: Latest News
The latest updates on Sylvester Stallone’s Tulsa King season 2 suggest that fans should expect an even longer wait due to the Writer’s Guild of America strike. Though the strike has since been resolved, no updates have come regarding the new season. Stallone himself confirmed that their show had been impacted as well, saying the strike was “definitely affecting work because we can’t move forward with a lot of projects, especially Tulsa King.” It isn’t clear how the SAG/AFTRA strikes affected the series.
The WGA strike was resolved on September 27th, 2023, and the SAG/AFTRA strike was resolved on November 9th, 2023.
Tulsa King Season 2 Has Been Renewed
Tulsa King was renewed shortly after the first three episodes premiered. It quickly became Paramount+’s biggest hit after 1923, the Yellowstone spin-off, and it also certainly helped that Tulsa King’s premiere episode drew a record number of new subscribers to Paramount+.
Tulsa King Season 2 Story Details: What Season 1 Set Up
Dwight and his crew were able to defeat a rival biker gang led by a local kingpin named Waltrip (Ritchie Coster), but he still has a few enemies lurking about. Stacy Beale, Dwight’s love interest throughout the first season, betrayed him and had him arrested during the finale. Stacy isn’t the only one gunning for Dwight, as he still has Chickie, the new boss of the Invernizzi family, plotting his revenge after being threatened by Dwight in the finale.
The Questions Tulsa King Season 2 Can Answer
Tulsa King season 2 has a lot of big questions to ask following the end of the first season. The biggest one is obviously Dwight’s fate after he is arrested in the Tulsa King’s season 1 finale. That also brings his relationship with Stacy into question. She was willing to bend the rules and put her career on the line for him only to betray him by turning him in. Will they rekindle their romance or are they enemies now?
There is also the question of who will step in as the new villain in season 2. Caolan Waltrip was an appropriately detestable and ruthless foe for Dwight to go up against, but in the end, Dwight and the others made short work of him. Chickie seems likely to step up as the next major threat after killing his own father to take control of the family business. Though Dwight was able to back him down, it seems unlikely he will forget and will come for everything Dwight built in Tulsa King season 2.