The third season of Tulsa King, a series brought to life by Taylor Sheridan and featuring Sylvester Stallone, concluded its latest chapter with Episode 10 airing on Sunday. As fans eagerly anticipate the future of this popular crime drama on Paramount+, many are wondering what lies ahead and when the new season will debut.
Devotees of Tulsa King were in for a delightful surprise when Season 3 premiered on September 21. Paramount+ took the opportunity to announce the renewal of the series for a fourth season. As part of this exciting news, the platform shared that Terence Winter, the Emmy-winning producer known for his work on The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, would be returning. Winter, who served as showrunner and writer for Season 1 and executive producer for the initial five episodes of Season 2, will once again step in as the executive producer and head writer for the upcoming season.
Note: The article contains significant spoilers from “Tulsa King” Season 3, Episode 10.
In the third season of Tulsa King, Sylvester Stallone’s character, Dwight “The General” Manfredi, finds himself in a fierce rivalry with Jeremiah Dunmire, portrayed by Robert Patrick. Their conflict ignites after Dwight acquires a historic distillery from Theo Montague, played by Brett Rice. This distillery houses 150 barrels of a rare 50-year-old bourbon valued at $150 million, which infuriates Jeremiah, a seasoned Tulsa liquor tycoon.
In retaliation, Jeremiah orders a brutal attack on Theo, culminating in setting his mansion ablaze while Theo is trapped inside. Throughout the season, Jeremiah makes several attempts on Dwight’s life, targeting his family and crew. However, in Episode 10, Dwight seeks retribution. Angered by the violent demise of Theo at the hands of Jeremiah’s men, Dwight takes his vengeance by setting Jeremiah ablaze.
Jeremiah’s first act of vengeance was to have his men brutalize Theo and burn up his mansion with him inside it. Jeremiah then at different points of the season attempted to murder Dwight and his family and his crew, but by Episode 10, the former New York City mob capo exacted revenge. Upset with how Jeremiah’s men killed Theo, he burned Jeremiah alive.
While Tulsa King Season 3 doesn’t end on a cliffhanger like Seasons 1 and 2, there are some loose ends in the subplots of Season 3 that could potentially spill into Season 4. Among them is how New York mob boss Quiet Ray Renzetti (James Russo) will respond to Dwight and his longtime friend Russell Lee Washington Jr. after they shot two of his hitmen.
Another potential storyline for Tulsa King Season 4 is how former Manfredi enemy-turned-uneasy ally Cal Thresher (Neal McDonough) will hold up his end of the bargain of being in Dwight’s pocket after he won the Oklahoma governor’s race.
The reason that the potential storyline appears to be taking shape is that a new cast member for the upcoming season of the series has been hired. According to Deadline, Gretchen Mol — who worked with Winter on Boardwalk Empire — has joined Tulsa King Season 4 as a series regular. Mol, Deadline reported, will play a Tulsa politician named Amanda Clark, so the character’s description seems tailor-made for the series’ political subplot.
Sylvester Stallone in “Tulsa King” Season 3.
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Production On ‘Tulsa King’ Season 4 Is Already Underway
Tulsa King Season 4 began production in November, but along with it came some unexpected drama. Deadline reported at the end of October that 26 of the series’ 600 crew members “were asked not to return for Season 4,” but most of them were expected to be replaced.
In the aftermath of the staffing purge, Variety reported that Tulsa King Season 4 was going into production without a showrunner and that Scott Stone, the executive in charge of production from Tulsa King’s production company, 101 Studios, is “the de facto showrunner.”
Variety interviewed former Tulsa King stunt coordinator Freddie Poole, who recalled for the trade publication a conversation he had with Stone between Seasons 3 and 4. Poole, who was one of the 26 employees who were let go before Season 4, told Variety, “[Stone] said, ‘We’re not going to have a showrunner. 101 is the showrunner.’ And I raised an eyebrow at that. That was the writing on the wall for me. I knew at that point I better start looking out for myself.”
Whether the lack of an official showrunner affects the production of Tulsa King Season 4 remains to be seen. If Season 4 follows the same production timeline as Season 3, though — work started on the show in March and the premiere episode was Sept. 21— that means that the show could return with the premiere episode of its fourth season as early as mid-May.
Of course, nobody will truly know the premiere date of Tulsa King Season 4 until Paramount+ makes it official. In the case of Tulsa King Season 3’s premiere date, Paramount announced the date of the Sept. 21 season premiere about seven weeks before, on July 31.
As fans await the announcement of Tulsa King Season 4’s debut, they have another reason to get excited. NOLA King, a Tulsa King spinoff series starring Tulsa King Season 3 guest star Samuel L. Jackson, is going into production in February of 2026, according to Deadline.
All three seasons of Tulsa are now available to stream on Paramount+.
