The first problem is the degeneracy that is almost always injected into the dialog and filming. There is often totally unnecessary and disgusting sexual language, usually from Tommy's (Billy Bob) ex-wife Angela, who completely exposed her genitals from the rear in a fully nude sex scene early in season one. The second season finalé was perhaps the only episode free from degeneracy.
The second problem is that the women are almost always trouncing the men in every way. For example, Tommy's 100 lb. daughter in high school, Ainsley, took out a 45 y.o. man twice her size, whom she mistook as an intruder, with a perfect kick to you know where. Somehow a dimwitted little girl had the situational awareness of a special forces commando and the reflexes of Bruce Lee while standing barefoot on a slick, wet surface.
Angela has beaten up two or three men larger than herself without even breaking a sweat, and those she doesn't physically man-handle, she intimidates, berates and causes to crater. And somehow, this is supposed to be attractive to a husband who fears her and is constantly bickering with her.
Tommy's son Cooper falls in love with a decent looking, non-fat latinx, whose widow was his co-worker and perished in an accident in Cooper's very first day on an oil rig. Ariana goes around telling every man in her life how things are going to be, especially Cooper, who gets a simp of the year award pretty much every episode.
On Ariana's first day as a barista, she has to deal with an obnoxious customer who seemed to have fallen out of a bizarro world Tarantino white-sploitation flick with dialog more cliché than a Mickey Spillane ripoff, but it was for a worthy cause. It set up an anti-white cliché that could be milked for more later and Ariana could be the minority victim damsel in distress of white privilege.
Sheridan is constantly mixing in women-worshipping phrases of the "happy wife, happy life" type whenever there's a moment of revelation after one of the men in the show has been over-powered by a woman.
But Sheridan likes to play both sides. He also gives Tommy and some of the geologists opportunities to tell the mega bitch lawyer Rebecca how stupid windmills are for generating electricity and that oil runs the world.
It's like he's tossing various bones to different demographics of his audience, but the lion share is going to feminists and anti-racists.
