Taylor Sheridan Officially Dubs His Dumbest Character Ever

Published Nov 13, 2026, 3:00 PM EST Sean is a senior writer for ScreenRant and has been writing about new TV releases since December 2023. He has received multiple advance screenings of popular shows and ideated his own coverage read by hundreds of thousands of readers. Sean is a self-published author of a Western novel. Sean has also written award-winning opinion pieces related to local politics while getting his Bachelor's degree in journalism. Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Tulsa King season 4, episode 5.After eight years and 10 scripted television shows, Taylor Sheridan has officially confirmed the dumbest character he's ever created. Between the many Yellowstone spinoff shows, his standalone series like Lioness, and several movies, Taylor Sheridan has created hundreds of original characters over the years. Most of those characters are quite smart. Sheridan is known for writing smart Westerns and crime thrillers, and his central characters use their brains to win fights as often as they use guns and fists. Not all of Sheridan's characters are mental giants, however. Usually, Sheridan's villains suffer from some massive blunder that gets them killed. James Jordan's Wind River villain, for example, proves to be a sniveling coward who evaded capture as long as he did purely through luck and systemic issues Native American peoples face. Other characters created by Sheridan are stupid for comedic relief, like Ainsley and several other members of the cast of Landman. Taylor Sheridan's Tulsa King has broken from that mold. The dumbest character in the cast of Tulsa King is also the dumbest character Sheridan ever created. What's worse is the fact that this character is supposed to be one of the show's protagonists and a founding member of Dwight's criminal empire. While Sheridan no longer directly writes for Tulsa King, he still created this character, and they haven't changed a bit since they debuted back in 2022. Tulsa King’s Tyson Mitchell Is The Dumbest Character Taylor Sheridan Ever Created Tyson Mitchell (Jay Will) has long been one of the dumbest members of Dwight's crew, but Tulsa King season 4, episode 5 just proved that his stupidity goes much further than we thought. In the past, Tyson has had such blunders as starting a gang war with Bill Bevilaqua, being seduced by a stripper and unveiling the location of the Montague 50, and selling tainted ecstasy and nearly killing a dozen innocent people. This week, he added another all-time screw-up to that list. In Tulsa King season 4, episode 5, Tyson was tasked with encouraging a bidding war on Bodhi and Leonardo's counterfeit wine. Despite being explicitly instructed to stop bidding at $6,000 per bottle, Tyson ended up winning the auction at $8,200, totaling up to over $2.2 million. All of this happened because Tyson got swept up in pretending to be a rap artist. Tulsa King season 4 has also gone out of its way to show that the gang is in desperate need of money with the governor cracking down on Dwight's empire, yet Tyson just blew millions of dollars on larping as a "baller." Tyson's blunder, on its own, puts him in contention to be one of the dumbest characters on television. The fact that he's never learned his lesson even after four seasons of Tulsa King, however, certifies it. Every season of Tulsa King features Tyson doing something mind-numbingly stupid, facing absolutely no repercussions of any kind for his mistake, and ultimately learning nothing. In any other gangster show, Tyson would have been executed years ago for being such a constant liability. Tulsa King Season 4 May Have Jumped The Shark With Tyson Image via MovieStillsDB Tyson's stupidity is infuriating by itself, but the worst part of it is that he wasn't even the only thing wrong with Tulsa King season 4, episode 5. This episode may have genuinely "jumped the shark," a term used to describe the point of no return, a moment so ridiculous that it becomes clear a show has lost the spark that made it entertaining in the first place. Tyson is a big part of that shark jump, but this week's episode gave him a lot of support. Tulsa King Season 4 Release Schedule Episode # Release Date (Fridays @ 3 a.m. ET on Paramount+) 1 October 16 2 October 23 3 October 30 4 November 6 5 November 13 6 November 20 7 November 27 8 December 4 9 December 11 10 December 18 In addition to Tyson's antics at the wine auction, Tulsa King has been trying to convince audiences that his music is some game-changing revolutoin that will put him on the hip-hop map instead of mediocre rap. Mitch and Spencer also started a romantic relationship with a frankly inappropriate age gap of nearly two decades. Worst of all, Goodie and Vince just happened to stumble upon a deus ex machina of preposterous proportions: a fully intact dinosaur fossil that could be worth millions. Tulsa King season 4 is kind of just doing stuff with no particular rhyme or reason in this episode. This used to be a gangster show, a fish-out-of-water tale about a New York mafioso building an empire in Oklahoma. Now, it's just a string of stupid decisions and complete non sequiturs that come out of nowhere. Can you imagine if Tony Soprano just happened to find a T. rex skeleton in The Sopranos, or if Tony just forgave Chris after he lost $2 million? I can't either, because The Sopranos never jumped the shark like Tulsa King currently is. Hopefully, this season can correct course next week. Release Date November 13, 2022 Network Paramount+ Showrunner Dave Erickson, Terence Winter Cast Dwight 'The General' Manfredi Martin Starr Lawrence 'Bodhi' Geigerman Directors Allen Coulter, Benjamin Semanoff, David Semel, Guy Ferland, Joshua Marston, Kevin Dowling, Lodge Kerrigan, Jim McKay Writers Joseph Riccobene, David Flebotte, William Schmidt, Taylor Elmore, Tom Sierchio, Regina Corrado, Stephen Scaia, Terence Winter Creator(s) Taylor Sheridan