I'm Audie Cornish, and this is the Assignment. And I really wanted to do an episode looking back at the big pop culture moments, but honestly, those are getting weirder and like harder to pin down. So ...

One of the biggest shows of the summer was Netflix’s “Hunting Wives,” a raunchy, soapy thriller about gun-toting Texas housewives. It’s the latest hit in a growing wave of so-called “red state ...