If you’ve seen the breakout Netflix series The Hunting Wives, you know that American right-wing authoritarianism is nothing if not libidinally charged. Throughout this murderous pulp series, which takes place in deep Texas, a cabal of wealthy white women parade their privilege by making love to their hunting rifles and engaging in copious amounts of sapphic intercourse. They hunt game, they hunt each other, they attend conservative political rallies, they go to church. Murder and chaos ensue.

The series might seem on its face like a takedown of MAGA femininity, the kind exemplified by trigger-happy women like Kristi Noem and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but the show’s Eastern-seaboard foil, a fish-out-of-water character named Sophie, hardly fares any better. A married, heterosexual white woman who seems to consider herself progressive before her move from Boston to Texas, she quickly falls in with the misbehaving trad wives (not to mention falls into bed with them) and ends up buying guns, drinking to oblivion, cheating on her saintly husband, and committing murder, all because of an emergency hysterectomy that left her infertile.

This series is pulpy, for sure. It is also a fantastic illustration of postmodern fascism.