parables

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.

“A New Hope,” “ The Empire Strikes Back” and “Jedi” collectively became a kind of morality North Star for Gen X, augmented by Joseph Campbell’s authentication of the films as spiritual parables.

There are lengthy jokes, a smattering of horror, some nonfiction, even romances, poetry and parables.