Tulsa King Gets a Reality Check from Local Tulsans: Here's What It Got Wrong

Taylor Sheridan 's Tulsa King has enjoyed tremendous ratings and nothing but warm responses from both fans and critics, there is a certain group of people who are not really okay with the show: Tulsa locals.

It turns out that the portrayal of Tulsa is far away from the actual reality of the city, from the town's long history of organized crime (as opposed to whatever Dwight's fellow capos believe in) to the fact that Tulsa is not, in fact, ATF's own "Siberia".

However, when it comes to criminal history, some people are divided on that.

"Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the commercials for Tulsa King, I kinda laugh inside, because after I lived in Tulsa for 10+ years, I cannot fathom any major crime boss going there. There's way too much weed and Jesus, y'all," Twitter user birdsteelpanda argued.

Among other issues locals have with Taylor Sheridan's portrayal of Tulsa in the new show is the fact that many scenes were actually filmed somewhere else and not in the city.

It also seemed to the locals that Tulsa King seeks to portray their city as some kind of countryside and not a metropolis it actually is.

Even one of the most sentimental moments of the show, when Dwight goes to Tulsa's "Center of the Universe", was apparently got wrong by the showrunners. In Tulsa King, the Center of the Universe is a famous spot in town where, if you stand inside a circle, no one can allegedly hear you from the outside, so people "talk to God" from there. However...

"It's a crossroads of consciousness where voices reflect back on themselves, not some confessional void of absolution," Twitter user KetoPope noted.

Still, despite some skepticism from the locals, Tulsa King appears to have conquered fans' hearts: with an 88% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and record-breaking viewing numbers, the series has been greenlit for season 2 just a week after its premiere on Paramount Network.