Actually, I thought it was pretty good. Compare/contrast 'wokeism' with a child raised by another woman/child who are used to thinking the money train won't end. Not all oil patch families are like that, but some are. Tommy, going from 6 figures to 0 in a heartbeat. That sh*t happens. BTDT, now the family will have to adjust. That happens, or it doesn't (likely how she got to be Tommy's ex), but that's just as real. And how one bad decision at the top (not sure yet, but 90% likely) could bring down the whole of MTech. Will Tommy save the company (that just gave him the boot), or will he and Cooper build a new empire from scratch?
Lots of moving parts, and while they are perhaps a bit exaggerated, at some level of intensity they ring true from my experiences. I have been through a bunch of that over the years, but it just didn't happen in one season.
(And yes, sending an oil patch kid into a modern university would be like having them land on an alien planet--especially if they had a woke roommate.)
Even the transitions from going all out to dead stop (and back) are part of the life.
When I was a young man I asked God to not let me have a boring life. He definitely heard that prayer. It has been a hell of a wild ride since I broke out in '79.
