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 · 2 months 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 · 2 months 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 · 2 months ago

Good shit.

paddirn@lemmy.world · 2 months 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