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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.
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 :)
NoCashNoDeal t1_iwfb2hc wrote
> no Italian organized crime. But, I’m pretty sure it exists in a different form… irl there's probably cartel activity for meth dealing. https://www.newson6.com/story/5e6fcb52f86011d4820c405c/dea-arrests-4-in-tulsa-connected-to-ruthless-drug-cartel
Dunno if that will actually factor into the show.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Forsythebubba t1_ix8zhdz wrote
Somebody never been face to face with a real gangster before.
Lmao!!!!
It happens exactly like that.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
More_Ad_3713 t1_iw1zsq1 wrote
His face tho.
gamerongames t1_iw201xl wrote
Mid shart
hugo_mandolin t1_iw5wwgb wrote
SQUID_FUCKER t1_iw89vmn wrote
The funniest story from that whole article has to be this one:
>Mark McGrath: Sugar Ray tried to fight a kid who called him Sugar Gay.
anasui1 t1_iw97bcw wrote
lmao. That and Patrick Stewart killed me
bokononpreist t1_iyd31tr wrote
lounginaddict t1_iw9bx44 wrote
Just finished the first episode, It's as if somebody who watched Goodfellas once thought that they could write a television show. Pretty disappointed but I'll give it a couple more episodes.
Bacchus_71 t1_iwdznlq wrote
I always give pilot episodes latitude unless they are total hot garbage. The first episode is not hot garbage. It was entertaining and interesting. If they polish a few things (and with the people involved there's no reason to believe they won't) I think this could be a whale of a show.
Desperate_Hyena_4398 t1_iw21iwu wrote
It’s on paramount plus if any one was wondering.
RayKVega t1_iwslmzs wrote
I have a feeling they might actually air it on The Paramount Network after season 1 wrapped up. Not sure if that was done before though.
RoterFuchs80 t1_iwii7pn wrote
Just watched 1st ep, very entertaining, fast, funny & i dont think it is supposed to be scrutinized to the point of "that couldn't happen because..." and it doesn't look like it is going to have woke shit. First episode=Great Stuff
RoamingTheSewers t1_iwdp96h wrote
Whoever thought it was a good idea showing Sly eating ice cream, though.
smaugington t1_iw4v5h7 wrote
Release: November 13
Paramount+
ambient_whooshing t1_iwepg6i wrote
Why is he laundering legal money?
waveball03 t1_iwjbno4 wrote
I think the point he was trying to make to the dispensary owner was that this might be “legal” on a state level, but on the federal level technically they could come in and shut you down at any moment. Like even if not officially, you could get some crooked federal officers coming after you half a million in the safe or something like that.
ambient_whooshing t1_iwjdyfk wrote
Ahhh, so it's more "the feds can overturn this shit any moment so while you think you're cool you might as well be fucked tomorrow." Then spreading cash through legal investments and insurance covers it. Got it. Thanks so much for the clarification.
waveball03 t1_iwjea93 wrote
Yea I’m pretty sure that’s what’s going on. And that’s why the guy really didn’t have the money in the bank, because maybe the feds could seize it easier that way. But Stallone’s point was that just keeping it in the safe really isn’t a solution either.
esk_209 t1_ixonrcz wrote
They don’t have their money in banks because they can’t. Since marijuana is still illegal at the federal level, most federally insured banks can’t/won’t accept them as customers, and they can’t allow any marijuana-related transactions over their networks. That’s also why they’re cash-only.
However, they still have to pay federal taxes on the income.
ambient_whooshing t1_iwjx5xr wrote
Totally. Martin Starr's char was aware and added to compliance.
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Fluffy_Procedure3381 t1_iworql9 wrote
Wasn’t expecting much from this but this was very good. Just wish I could binge watch it instead of this weekly drip rubbish.
CosmicLars t1_ix3m87o wrote
It's very entertaining, that's for sure.
Forsythebubba t1_ix8zkib wrote
Great fucking show!
Ambitious-End-1066 t1_ixhvmr6 wrote
Why did they have to make Stallone so dumb in this series, I get he just got out of prison but to make him so dumb?? And Dwight as his name? No he should’ve been a Tony or something Italian
TheFailTech t1_iw2wbea wrote
After seeing the last Rambo movie and "the Samaritan", it's really hard to believe that Stallone rules anything anymore.
suddenlyissoon t1_iw3vnvc wrote
I love the Rambo movies but the last one was pretty terrible. Then, randomly, I saw there was an unrated director's cut and I watch that and it was 10x's the movie as the theatrical cut. Still not amazing, but I would at least watch it again.
jblanch3 t1_iw52zhj wrote
Thanks for recommending, I'll have to check that out. I was really disappointed in Last Blood too, I wish he'd have just ended it at IV. The ending brought John Rambo full circle, so to bring him back in a movie we've seen tens of thousands of times is really unnecessary.
Sks44 t1_iwaw83o wrote
Yea, the last movie was just stupid and the previous one was such a great ending for the character.
TheFailTech t1_iw4z47k wrote
I'll have a look for it. I loved all the rambo movies except for the last one. I'm not sure why I was down voted, his last few movies have not been great.
GeronimoSonjack t1_iw32avw wrote
He's earned his legendary status but is there seriously nothing else he could have done for his tv debut? The trailer made this look like the stinkiest of lazy garbage.
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.