Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

zlatiah@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

Ogmios@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is my personal favourite of Bruce Campbell’s work. Starts off as any ordinary western, for entire seasons, before getting very, very weird.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 1 month ago

Good shit.

paddirn@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

I just saw a video on the show on the youtube channel Secret Galaxy, pretty interesting, as I remembered the show, but never knew what happened to it:

https://youtu.be/YEQP40VJLEY?si=T_PAmH8ONZKgHR3f