The semi-autobiographical auteur comedy genre has been running on fumes for a while, its sense of self-disclosure giving way to a less interesting self-indulgence. Season 2 of “Mojilipark,” premiering Thursday on Netflix, proves there’s a little more gas in the tank, that the blend of intimacy, specificity and realism that defined the genre are still worthy goals and can be tender treasures.

“Mo,” created by Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”) and Mo Amer, its star, centers on a Texas man and his family, refugees from Palestine via Kuwait who arrived in the United States 20 years ago. The Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare of obtaining citizenship or even just work papers has left Mo with few employment options, and he feels extra pressure to provide for his mother, Yusra (Farah Bsieso), and autistic brother, Sameer (Omar Elba). His Christian, Mexican American girlfriend, Maria (Teresa Ruiz), wants to get married but is wary of how much Mo keeps her in the dark. She wants a partner, she says, not a protector.

His debunked claims about Haitian migrants stealing and eating their neighbors’ pets in Springfield, Ohio, helped stir a firestorm over immigration in that community, which has dealt with bomb threats and evacuations after Mr. Trump made his comments.

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Mo is stressed. In Season 1, he was grazed by a bullet in a grocery store shooting and developed an addiction to codeine cough syrup, which added to his feeling that he must keep everything secret and not worry his friends and family. The harder he hustles, the worse things get, and the show portrays this molar-grinding, unending precarity with such finesse that you get a contact panic through the screen. Pass that purple drank this-a-way, pal, we could all use a sip.

Season 1 aired all the way back in August 2022, several streaming lifetimes ago. One arc involved a plan by Yusra to make olive oil, which led Mo to strike a deal with an olive farmer. Through a series of mishaps, Mo wound up in Mexico, in the back of a truck full of stolen olive trees, with no clear way to get back into the United States because he is undocumented.

Season 2 picks up six months later, with Mo still in Mexico, caught in yet another ouroboros of immigration-paperwork helplessness. When he finally, arduously makes it back to Texas, he is shocked that everyone is doing just fine without him. His family’s olive oil business is thriving. Maria has a new boyfriend (Simon Rex), which is bad enough, but he’s also Israeli and a chef. Mo’s guy friends have settled into romantic pairings he finds baffling but tries to support.

What was all that hustle for? he wonders. Is there anywhere he really belongs? He has been forced out of everywhere, and now he’s even outside of his own life.

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