Who does Tyson kill at the end of this week's “Tulsa King”?

Taylor Sheridan is goofy and extremely entertaining Tulsa King rolls past the halfway point of the second season and continues to finance the Stallone family's extravagances. For those who haven't tuned in yet: imagine low rent The sopranos takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is portrayed by Sylvester Stallone Stop! Or my mother will shoot Role. This isn't a dig; It's part of the charm.

In a strange twist, Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) was ousted as showrunner after last season due to creative differences, but has returned for the second season, now as head writer. The tone hasn't changed much, which is good. The series' talent for alternating between high-stakes and low-stakes drama remains intact. One moment Stallone's Dwight Manfredi is plotting mob wars; In the next argument, he argues about a preschool's “awake” curriculum for his grandchild.

This season, Manfredi's crew – played by familiar faces like Martin Starr, Max Casella and Garrett Hedlund – is caught up in a war on three fronts. First, there is the New York Mafia, led by the Invernizzi family (Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza), who originally exiled Manfredi to Tulsa but are not happy about him making the city his own. Then there's a crime syndicate from Kansas City led by Bill Bevilaqua (Frank Grillo) that runs the Mafia in Oklahoma, and finally there's a territorial conflict with shady businessman Thresher (Neal McDonough). The series' cast is a “dad show” dream team, with recurring roles for Annabella Sciorra and Dana Delaney.

I don't want to like the show as much as I do, but it's all so casual. Stallone plays a thinly disguised version of himself, and there haven't been so many great character actors in a series since Justified.

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Jay Will shines as Tyson Mitchell, a taxi driver who became Manfredi's trusted driver, similar to Rhenzy Feliz's character in The penguin. Tyson is drawn to the wealth and power that comes with mafia life (against his family's wishes) and buys his skeptical blue-collar father, played by another great character actor, Michael Beach, a new car. But the gesture backfires when one of Manfredi's enemies plants a bomb in the car, almost killing Tyson's father.

The question in this week's episode? Who bombed the Navigator? Tyson wants revenge, even though he has no experience with killing, but Manfredi urges restraint and hopes to handle it himself. However, Tyson can't hold back and by the end of the episode he is involved in a shootout in which a key player is apparently killed. But who? (Many people ask because the image is so blurry it's hard to see it.)

Here's a clearer picture of him at the beginning of the episode.

Tyson's unwitting victim is part of the Bevilaqua Kansas City syndicate, with whom Manfredi had just made a deal. Unfortunately, Tyson doesn't yet realize that Thresher's employee Jackie Ming (Rich Ting) is actually behind the bombing of his father. Ming is a cold fuck.

Now Manfredi is faced with chaos: his protégé has just taken out the wrong family's enforcer, setting the stage for a major setback in the final three episodes of the season. But even that setback will probably be seriously weird. It's not a great show, but it's a damn good time.