parables

As it draws to a close, Hwang’s lethal playground games are cautionary parables about tribalism driven by greed.

I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.

It is the seat of Hood County, where rodeos and “cowboy tourism” are popular and preachers conflate Bible parables and politics.

But Martin’s stories, along with being informed by actual history, are parables of power struggles among the ruling classes.

The first and second seasons are light parables that take on toxic masculinity, the weight of fatherhood and healing traumatic personal legacies.