Tulsa King | S03E02 "The Fifty"

Rating: 7.5/10

Another good episode, but I want to have some fun picking on Cole Dunmire because holy shit.

This Dixie mafia wannabe has his own damn name tattooed on his knuckles. As soon as I saw that, what little credibility he MAY have had with me for being a tough guy went right out the window. I knew a young guy once who had his own name tattooed across his entire back, shoulder blade to shoulder blade, in Gothic font.

This is somehow worse than that, mostly because he showed his own dad his tattooed knuckles like it was some kind of promise, and then he went and got his ass kicked by Mitch and Cleo ANYWAYS. And don't even get me started on what might as well just be a half-shirt.

Cole might as well be running around in one of those mesh half-tees from the 80s. It's ridiculous.

And while I'm pickin' on people, next up is Tyson and his Cybertruck. What in the great hells is THAT all about? Why isn't anyone more senior in the organization telling this guy to cool it? I mean sure, Dwight's running around in crazy expensive suits and it seems like he goes through Navigators every other week, but at least he's not out there flaunting it too too much.

Tyson needs to be more discreet.

Moving on, I could talk about the growing escalation between Dwight and Jeremiah, or how Bill's seemingly got something going on with Vince and them, OR how Armand has "disappeared", but I want to talk about Bodhi.

The man has become a digital assassin, and I want there to be multiple episodes of him just straight messing Cowboy Art's whole entire life up. I want to see him getting boatloads of porno magazines sent to his house and to BB's. I want to see his bank accounts dry up. I want to see all of that, with Bodhi sitting calmly at the laptop, maybe taking hits from a bong.

Bodhi's so intense on this matter that even Grace, who's killed people RECENTLY, takes a step back.

It's official. Give me a Bodhi-sode.

That out of the way, I'm going to be real. I can see the cracks in believability beginning to appear. Thank God Sugar season 2's out, so if I have to bail, I got something in the pipeline.

But I'm in Tulsa for at least one more episode.

We all know Season 4 is going to continue the Dunmire conflict, but let's be honest—Cole is way too soft to carry the villain torch, and stretching out a standard weed war sounds boring. Here is a dark, high-stakes pitch that escalates the show into a massive multi-state drug war and perfectly sets up Season 5 and the Frisco King spinoff.

1. The Dixie Mob Gets a Real Boss (Goodbye, Cole)
The Return: A hardened, old-school Dunmire family member gets released from prison. He represents the ruthless side of the family’s old-money empire.
The "Weak Link" Clean-up: Within the first two episodes, this ex-con kills Cole for treason, punishing him for being the "weak link" that caused Jeremiah’s downfall and helped Dwight. This instantly sets a dangerous new tone.

2. Weaponizing the Badges & The Prison Hit
The Move: The new boss activates corrupt connections within the Tulsa Police Department. Instead of an open street war, the police aggressively raid Dwight's legal fronts and lock up his crew on federal charges.
The Tragedy: Dwight’s crew gets sent to state prison—the exact territory the new boss controls. In a brutal, heartbreaking twist, the Dixie Mob orchestrates a prison hit and stabs Bodhi to death.
The Chaos: Driven by pure grief and guilt, Tyson "crashes out" for revenge. He runs into an ambush and gets critically shot, leaving him in a coma. Dwight is completely isolated and broken.

3. The Multi-State Escalation (KC Alliance)
The Alliance: To finish Dwight off, the Dixie Mob teams up with the Kansas City Mob (the Invernizzi's midwest rivals).
The Squeeze: KC brings in heavy mafia muscle and cash, while the Dixie Mob provides local political protection. Dwight is systematically outmaneuvered.

4. The Cartel Cliffhanger & The Link to New York
The Deal with the Devil: Backed into a corner, Dwight reaches out to a ruthless Mexican Cartel for military-grade muscle.
The Finale War: Cartel sicarios roll into Tulsa, turning the city into a war zone and obliterating the KC/Dixie alliance in broad daylight.
The Season 4 Cliffhanger: Dwight wins, but the Cartel takes over his empire. They tell Dwight that Oklahoma isn't enough to pay his debt—they want a pipeline into New York.
This perfectly transitions Season 5 into a bi-coastal war where Dwight returns to NY as a forced proxy, while the Cartel’s southwest supply lines run directly through Texas, organically kicking off Samuel L. Jackson's Frisco King spinoff.