Don't call this music escapist: the album fits escapist codes without specifying escape from or to what.
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Spacey's performance makes House of Cards escapist entertainment Still, Spacey's blustery performance is just removed enough from reality to make the show feel like escapist entertainment.
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If there's anything Hollywood does well, it's good escapist entertainment.
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A few years ago, these novels provided fascinating, escapist fiction.
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In that sense, is making electronic music escapist for you?
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And watching them didn't feel escapist and joyous and fun.
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It's like escapist television now — like a balm, a tonic.
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Weathering With You is a fantasy, but it's not escapist.
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Try Roman Polanski's escapist version with its real estate porn.
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Its light tone signals an escapist impulse from the melancholy.
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I don't care if its plot lines trend realistic or escapist.
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It's so gorgeous here and there's something really escapist about it.
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This is historical fiction that is the very opposite of escapist.
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In 2019, escapist beach reading ain't what it used to be.
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Necessary People is an escapist thriller laced with substantive social commentary.
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It's true escapist entertainment—and can't we all use an escape?
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And that's because heroes aren't just escapist, and aren't just exciting.
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Now, for sports to be escapist, they have to be predictable.
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Pop culture can range from thrilling to frustrating, escapist to educational.
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Coffey explains that the song is as escapist as it sounds.
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For the record, my stories are meant to be purely escapist.
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The ongoing Covid-220 pandemic only adds to that escapist enthusiasm.
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Its ambition is much different, obviously, from escapist special-forces dramas.
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In our culture of "escapist TV," real can be quite rare.
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For escapist reading, I especially like the sea novels of Patrick O'Brian.
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From there the dock recall rumors hit Neogaf, Escapist, BGR, and Forbes.
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So, seize your opportunity to indulge in some escapist fare on Halloween.
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His articles have appeared in Zam, Vice, The Escapist, Playboy and Slate.
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Typically games manufacture escapist fantasy and try to sell it to me.
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For an adult, it might not be the escapist dream you expected.
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When it first debuted, the show was an escapist joyride through corrupt politics.
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The Moon challenges Neptune at 11:50 PM, bringing out our escapist tendencies.
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The '90s were not the schmaltzy, safe, escapist climate we think they were.
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The world she enters is shellacked, overproduced, filthy, luxuriant, a glossy escapist blockbuster.
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Only one is trying to sell users on an entirely escapist virtual reality.
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He said that he wanted audiences to see it as an escapist fantasy.
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It's here that the novel is in danger of becoming literally escapist fare.
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Here is a quick look at their findings to satiate your escapist fantasies.
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And so while Ready Player One is a kind of accidental horror movie, a big, escapist entertainment vehicle about how big, escapist entertainment vehicles are drugs with which the masses sedate themselves, it also feels out of touch with the times.
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Video games have been slowly moving away from being marketed as just escapist entertainment.
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He then implores the industry to try harder, while acknowledging fashion's delightfully escapist nature.
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Multiple psychologists recommend coloring as a stress reliever, as a sort of escapist technique.
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Most video games in the history of the medium have been pretty purely escapist.
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It completely lacks the escapist component that often comes with narratives rooted in fantasy.
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Ms. Zittel's show at Andrea Rosen Gallery furthers escapist ideas, but not so trenchantly.
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On that basis alone, Animal Crossing is an escapist salve from an inflexible reality.
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The strange thing is, it works: "Die Hard" is exceedingly stupid, but escapist fun.
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The series doesn't make any real attempt to inject false drama for escapist purposes.
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I learned that the hard way last weekend, while searching for some escapist entertainment.
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Her paintings, while rooted in the American Northeast, make little concession to escapist fantasies.
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Morbid Stuff excels as both escapist mosh pit fuel and reflections on generational anxiety.
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The strange thing is, it works: 'Die Hard' is exceedingly stupid, but escapist fun.
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Perhaps understandably, the ballet's outsized budget and escapist theme clashed with wartorn 1920s Vienna.
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Then, in April, he released a track called The Ocean, a bit of escapist pop.
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It's really no wonder more and more people are becoming increasingly reliant on escapist entertainment.
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For most of the history of film, the biggest hits have been escapist in nature.
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The Beatles: Rock Band is not just an escapist game; it's a game about escaping.
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Try not to go overboard with your escapist tendencies—things will mellow out later today.
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The story also doesn't shy away from letting real life intrude on our escapist fantasy.
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As I watched this kiss, the show went over the tipping point of escapist fantasy.
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State of the Art Pottery, improbably, is the latest escapist pastime to sweep the nation.
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It can be escapist or aspirational, extravagantly hyperbolic or easily plausible, but it's still idealized.
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More than escapist fantasies or backyard baubles, tiny houses are increasingly sheltering people in need.
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And this book, unlike that lazy escapist junk you picked first, is a great book.
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Elsewhere, Acorn TV heads to India with "The Good Karma Hospital," an escapist medical melodrama.
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Instead of a new glimpse of hell, it's a riveting and deeply satisfying escapist fantasy.
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Do you find the movie escapist and do you look for that in the movies?
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The poet casts himself as an escapist reader, amassing archives to be condensed as paraphrase.
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So whenever I want some escapist entertainment, I pick up a book about an actual crime.
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If it is escapist, it doesn't work, it's a kind of failed leap out of history.
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"Fallout Online is clearly going to be the best MMOG ever," said The Escapist semi-jokingly.
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Virtual reality can often be escapist in nature, but sometimes you just gotta get shit done.
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And I really do, I do love escapist things, but it's been harder to enjoy them.
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Don't dismiss this one as gross-out escapist fare — there is heart and soul to spare.
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Science fiction remains a popular genre for its simultaneous escapist qualities and its mirror of current reality.
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And since it's an escapist fantasy about Hollywood dreamers, it was seen as catnip for Academy voters.
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"Indelicacy" is not escapist reading, but it is fuel, pushing you to do the thing you love.
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But if all you want is a hit of escapist pleasure, you've come to the right place.
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Most games build their escapist fantasy around the idea of making your hero the center of everything.
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Specifically, it's an escapist future that is still able to grapple with current ideas about identity politics.
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HBO's meaty science fiction morality play Westworld explores the logical extreme of our obsession with escapist fantasies.
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Frustrated and desperate, Aggretsuko entertains the escapist idea of getting married so she can leave her job.
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Or maybe, after all that they put you through, they found something salvageable in these escapist fantasies.
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Although the repeated questions are narratively obtrusive, the men's voices broaden this experience beyond its escapist trappings.
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Books of The Times At least Liane Moriarty's new novel pampers her fans with its escapist premise.
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It might be just the ticket for an escapist read that is both disturbing and utterly moving.
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The most popular Ramadan shows are often escapist love stories, full of beautiful people wearing nice clothes.
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If ever there were a moment to bring back escapist entertainment, this would seem to be it.
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He is also likely to deal with challenging situations in an escapist manner, especially when under stress.
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The Golden Girls!) and beyond (The Care Bears Movie), there's an escapist option for every personality type.
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Elon Musk is just like the escapist fantasy we all need right now in these terribly trying times.
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I'm not sure if that's overly escapist, because lots of real-life women are victimized in gendered ways.
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Given the value of escapist entertainment right now, that's a major point in its favor: Seeing Hello, Dolly!
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Walking Dead has never exactly been feel-good escapist fantasy, but it doesn't have to be retraumatizing, either.
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The screams are prelude to the same thrill of victory that fuels so many of gaming's escapist fantasies.
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Because TV shows in 2017, even escapist teen and comedy shows, do not shy away from important issues.
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Ron Currie writes about the escapist value of fiction, and yes, there are times when escape is needed.
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It's hard to begrudge anyone their emotional wellbeing, but Hagerman's escapist lark illustrates the larger folly of retreatism.
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We know that, in real life, that isn't always the case, and that's the escapist fantasy of Sweetbitter.
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In fact, we are on its side, engaging in a movie that functions as an escapist fantasy itself.
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But the announcement of the latest winner capped a season that did not provide the usual escapist thrills.
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In their heyday, which coincided with the Great Depression, Hollywood musicals drew huge audiences looking for escapist entertainment.
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We live in a time when people need escapist drama perhaps even more than they did in 1927.
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Historically, that's a new development; science fiction was once a reviled genre, dismissed as juvenile trash or escapist nonsense.
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Arthur Gies, Escapist Magazine Too much of Odyssey's later game story content is locked behind a murderous progression wall.
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Still, the appearance of a recognizable face like Sheeran was enough to irritate fans of the show's escapist world.
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It's hard to find much escapist fun in a book about a woman whose main attributes are deadly sins.
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Even in our time of impending doom, Coachella parties offer the perfect escapist mirage—if you're invited, that is.
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Sounds a little dry perhaps, against the escapist fantasy of other visual novels, but in practice it's anything but.
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The uncomfortable collision of escapist, destination-partiers, and refugees escaping war, is a tension growing ever stronger in Europe.
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Although Netflix has a reputation as an escapist clearinghouse, the streaming service isn't averse to the occasional tough sit.
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In the end, Stellaris is not "about" fascism, as its simulation is geared towards escapist entertainment, not political theory.
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Girls, by contrast, is horrifyingly mundane, not escapist or otherworldly (if frequently absurd), and never aspirational in the slightest.
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It's a perfect beach/escapist read and one of my favorite books — and the sequel comes out in July!
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In order to differentiate his character's walk in "The Escapist," he shot the entire film wearing a woman's thong.
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Energetic, agitating Mars will meet up with esoteric, escapist Neptune — and in the sign of "no limits" Pisces, at that.
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In fact, all of the bad romances were merely escapist window dressing, as is normally the case in real life.
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It's the sunny television equivalent of a beach read, a perfect escapist fantasy for getting through the worst of winter.
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The piece is an animated painting, colored by deep blues, greens, and yellows that play with the song's escapist theme.
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El Rey is an escapist entertainment brand that is perfectly positioned for consumer enjoyment whenever and wherever our fans choose.
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The duality evokes the carnal grit and transformative, escapist role-play that characterized sexual scenarios available to intrepid San Franciscans.
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It's a whodunit full of nuance on women and power that unfolded in the most picturesque, escapist setting in America.
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Bold, bright, fluorescent rainbows dissolve into pared-down, minimal figure paintings in Scottsdale, AZ-based artist Oliver Hibert's escapist images.
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The "Road" movies, his series of slapstick travelogues with Bob Hope, provided goofy escapist fun for the folks back home.
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The usual answer from most fashion people, and brands, for that matter, is it's "the dream": the ultimate escapist fantasy.
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This isn't a critique of fake news; it's a critique of escapist narrative in general, which I find kinda thrilling.
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With Microshift, Hookworms have found that sweet spot, and written an album for the dancefloor, in all its romanticized, escapist beauty.
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Filmmakers have celebrated the United States through fist-pumping escapist action (Independence Day), grim patriotic drama (Red Dawn), sentimental uplift (Mr.
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So if the UK's fate becomes more closely intertwined with America's, does entertainment like Friends lose its escapist appeal for Brits?
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The placement of the outdoor art along a well-used commuter route emphasizes the escapist and influential nature of the pieces.
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And I wouldn't be surprised if that is a reaction to all the exciting escapist kid stuff in theaters right now.
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I think it's because consumers view travel as an escapist activity that can transport you literally and figuratively to another world.
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Editorial Atlantic City has long been a grand escapist Xanadu of sand, sun and craps tables on the New Jersey shore.
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He was making escapist movies—fun stuff, like Raiders—and wondered what deeper, more personal stories he might have to tell.
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And also I've been finding myself snap, sometimes I'll find an escapist thing ... You deleted and put back on Twitter, why?
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At a time when many of us are climbing the walls, a show that is both escapist and domestic feels right.
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Their creation, The Escapist, can do what Joe's family back in Prague cannot and their work helps spark an artist revolution.
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Twitch streamer I_Play_Too_Much_Gragas was streaming everyone's favorite escapist exercise app, Pokémon Go, when he saw a lure he wanted to reach.
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Cultural critics of the 1700s thought that books were uncontrollable escapist temptations that would cause people to retreat from public life.
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Video games — hold your melodramatic eye-roll — taught me more about self-care than I expected for an oft escapist medium.
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"Someone could see this and say I'm being totally escapist right now, but I feel like it's kind of what I need."
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Lee Daniels has become a master of escapist television that's as rooted in reality TV as it is in sui generis surrealism.
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Sometimes, it's straightforward: you want to be wowed by spectacle, or laugh 'til your sides hurt, or sink into an escapist fantasy.
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There's escapist TV and then there's The Handmaid's Tale, a series so steeped in despair that many viewers have simply opted out.
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There was nothing escapist about it; I left wanting to root for the people who made this film and all they represent.
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Where Contemporary Color is pure escapist fantasy, Step contextualizes its dance routines within the personal struggles facing the young women performing them.
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To cope with their despair over current events, individuals wrote in throughout the year looking for escapist fare — fantasy, humor, happy endings.
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When they are not purely escapist or flat-out inane, they are narrowly concerned with the airbrushed circumstances of their own creation.
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What starts as an escapist holiday becomes a crash course in self-discovery: this queen must learn to rule her own world.
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Or maybe the "pile d'assiettes" — a stack of lenticular clouds that trigger escapist fantasies of picnic baskets and cozy blankets in meadows.
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A tragedy about the dangers of populism and a leader who colludes with an enemy may not feel like escapist summer fare.
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A tragedy about the dangers of populism and a leader who colludes with an enemy may not feel like escapist summer fare.
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The Old Man & The Gun is an old-fashioned escapist crime caper, and according to rumor, Robert Redford's final film before he retires.
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After Miseducation, other artists would employ some of the same escapist fantasies to avoid being confined, though with a much more obvious bent.
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But for examples of escapist films flourishing in times of high political drama, we need only look to the films that inspired it.
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Because as Thompson points out, there's a major difference between that kind of escapist response and the way Americana is being wielded today.
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An escapist homage to the escapism industry, "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" is as much of a fairytale as its title implies.
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The works were not so much escapist, but more like artistic confrontation, the likes of which we don't often experience at art fairs.
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But if rising recreational psychedelic use is an escapist response to our overworked, vapid, screen-locked culture, then what does the future hold?
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House Hunters (and it's more escapist cousin House Hunters International), Love It or List It, Beachfront Bargain Hunters, Caribbean Life, Log Cabin Living.
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But where Independence Day draws from its pop culture sources in a manner that commemorates movies as escapist, uplifting utopian visions, Mars Attacks!
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The Get Down isn't a satire or comedy, but like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend it isn't so much escapist as it is about escape.
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Now, though, The Beatles makes me nostalgic for youth, and for the juvenile, escapist fantasy of identifying with a time that isn't yours.
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By putting women in male roles, Takarazuka is aiming less for transgression or social rebellion than for an added level of escapist fantasy.
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Essentially, the movie mixes an escapist shoot-'em-up with complex real-world issues, in a way that does a disservice to both.
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"I have a strong aversion to people saying the kind of novels I write are 'escapist,' " she told The Birmingham Post in 1999.
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It only makes sense that a format like VR, based around many of the same escapist ideals, would be embraced by this industry.
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In the US — home of Hollywood — film is still largely thought of as escapist entertainment, something to do on the weekend for fun.
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"Mother!" is not for those seeking escapist entertainment, but I would urge people to watch it and spend time arguing about it afterward.
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Those in need of some escapist action this holiday weekend can gaze at the latest digital reboot of the world's most famous gorilla.
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But in mannerisms and voice, this guy is too tight, too cautious to be the extravagant, escapist playboy he is said to be.
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"As an escapist fantasy of girl-power, it's a triumph, but as a rallying cry to buck the status quo, it's even better."
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BEIJING — The house lights dimmed, and moviegoers in a Beijing cinema settled in with their popcorn for some of Hollywood's finest escapist entertainment.
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Societal ignorance is a never-ceasing historical habit, which has spread into our literature through the escapist genre, often infused with political allegory.
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The shocking, aggravating, awe-inspiring run of Twin Peaks: The Return has rejiggered the notion of escapist TV into something darker and more complicated.
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Many people see it as no different than something like heroin or oxycodone: escapist, trashy, and too extreme for most people who use MDMA.
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The election of the nation's first black president tapped into a deep vein of escapist hope, a painless way to heal our historic wounds.
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One is dark, complex and demanding; the other lighter, quicker and packed with an escapist sense of fun that doesn't diminish its tactical challenge.
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It's a good example of how a game can communicate controversial and high-level ideas while retaining the escapist qualities that make it fun.
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So it at first seems curious, even irresponsibly escapist, that the theme of this summer's Salzburg Festival is the nature and power of dreams.
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Against a backdrop of lynchings and Jim Crow mania, escapist cinema (of the type still Golden Globe grabbing today) feels less harmless than complicit.
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The hunting detail was just an elaboration of that predator thing, part of my escapist fantasy about becoming a self-reliant, wilderness-survival type.
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How about someone like Thundercat, who just released an album that ticks all the "future" criteria—identity driven, depressive-yet-escapist, meditative but hopeful.
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Silent-era movie magazines made use of painted covers and radically inventive Chinese typography, while wartime magazines promoted both patriotic pictures and escapist schmaltz.
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"The Best Man" is one of the rare '90s ensemble rom coms that is both grounded and real and yet still escapist and fun.
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It provided the perfect escapist reading for American parents who tiptoe round their own young like a terrified concierge on a short-term contract.
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With sixteen days left in Phase I, the narratives were falling into place: "La La Land" was the escapist fantasy the country sorely needed.
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For those who long for a pricklier age, the seventies have become something like an escapist fantasyland, and, honestly, I can see the appeal.
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But Netflix, which has 139 million paying members around the world, has lately become something more than a licenser of other countries' escapist television.
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NonFiction People tend to think of crime and mystery stories as "escapist" literature, a way to hide from the atrocities and absurdities of real life.
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The internet and the role it has played in building fandom has helped give rise to the vocalization of this desire for indulgent, escapist spaces.
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That would be the ultimate escapist entertainment, giving us Earth-bound humans the chance to experience the overview effect by simply strapping on a headset.
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In particular, the Stories features on Instagram and Snapchat, which weave snapshots into video diaries of someone's day, are becoming a form of escapist entertainment.
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Here in Cliché Shores, you can live a quiet, sanitized life surrounded by all those hackneyed themes and characters you expect from lightweight escapist paperbacks.
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It changes the way you think about performance, because while one might see apps like this as an escapist experience, it might be more pervasive.
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I was struggling throughout with how to present these flawed people in a way that feels like it's also a big, escapist studio rom-com.
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But I'd also be inclined to say that the combination of 70s nostalgia and the escapist reverie that they offer are particularly welcome right now.
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Now, even the things the Internet positions as escapist are emblazoned with a logo that reminds you of who, exactly, your scrolling is beholden to.
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But the movie — more than four hours long, split into two parts with a cliffhanger in the middle — also works, perhaps unexpectedly, as escapist entertainment.
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For the most part, I found 2017's most overtly escapist blockbuster films pretty easy to watch, no matter how loud and busy they got.
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But as I said, comedy is in a weird place right now, and "The Hustle" deserves some credit for fulfilling its own modest, escapist ambitions.
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That desire has fueled a surge in escapist entertainment like online live-streaming, Korean television dramas and blogs that churn out feel-good clickbait content.
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Browsing the book sparks a bit of the same flat-out escapist glee that led many of us to the medium in the first place.
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Some consider Gnosticism flawed, an individualistic, nihilistic, escapist religion incapable of forming any kind of true moral community, but naturally we disagree with that assessment.
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You won't be able to avoid every possible trigger for every solver, but keeping in mind the escapist nature of puzzles goes a long way.
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I ask myself why it's primarily white, middle-class kids trying to build these escapist utopias in developing countries, while not involving the local population.
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Instead of being an escapist porthole for audiences to slip into for a few hours, screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher sees Trial By Fire as having another purpose.
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But the basic impulse behind the music is escapist, an attempt at creating an immersive realm that can serve as a respite from what ails you.
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"One maybe has a much more intellectual, sociological component while the other is escapist, but both are also about love and finding your dreams," she added.
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Crime Louise Penny wrote the book on escapist mysteries — a dozen of them, in fact, almost all set in the sheltered Canadian village of Three Pines.
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That wouldn't normally make for an escapist premise, except the world is so well-realized and rich in character that the busywork becomes oddly fun instead.
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It's the peak TV season in the Arab world, when networks debut new series — often escapist love stories — to binge-watch after breaking the daily fast.
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I know we have more important things to talk about than movie faves, but ever since he's been president I've become desperately fond of escapist entertainment.
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"With all the things happening around us, I could not justify to myself the idea 'Let me just make pretty clothes, escapist fare,'" Mr. Gurung said.
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In a flurry of funny new specials that supply escapist laughs and downplay their own significance, some stand-ups even embrace what Gary ran away from.
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For viewers living in brutally competitive, increasingly unaffordable, class-stratified New York (or Los Angeles, or San Francisco, or wherever), a throwback slacker offers escapist joy.
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Crashing Klan rallies and shooting up cop cars feels liberating and transgressive even as it is safely enclosed within the narrow escapist limits of a videogame.
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It's either because people are treating it as escapist entertainment, or because immersing yourself in an alternate dimension is just too darn amusing not to get hooked.
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From a coffee cup that sends the perfect message (no words necessary) to escapist games and reads, these products will make the holidays that much more bearable.
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A lot of ambient music can feel escapist or enveloping, something to overwhelm the chaos around you, but Limpid as the Solitudes has a slightly different feeling.
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Most of us are familiar with V.R. as being intended for a wholly escapist experience, a plane in which to exercise both freedom and control over oneself.
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State of the Art This column is about escapist social networks, but let's start with Donald J. Trump because he seems more or less inescapable right now.
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Whether your travel style veers more toward rugged explorer or luxury escapist, get ready to experience 10 of the most incredible tree-house hotels across the globe.
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A frantic woman races through the jungle as the movie begins, serving notice that this isn't grandma's "Fantasy Island," the escapist TV show that premiered in 1978.
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Many fans, including me, were looking forward to a bit of escapist counterprogramming, something frothy and full of silly puns, in line with the first nine episodes.
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Star Wars may be escapist space fantasy set a long time ago, but there are times when it can feel like up-to-the-minute political commentary.
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Deitch's style seethes with detail; his fact-flipping meditations on cycles of life are both an escapist pleasure and an optimistic note for this mind-bending moment.
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A tone of sunny desperation isn't out of keeping with what seems to be this production's escapist mission, which is to deliver nostalgia with an exclamation point.
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Double Feature: "Air Force One" (1997) Who needs superheroes when you have a US president (Harrison Ford) kicking the butts of skyjacking terrorists in Wolfgang Petersen's escapist thriller?
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And yet somehow, in this summer of scamming, IRL grift is easily outpacing the current big-screen visions of cons, heists, hustling, and fraud for sheer escapist satisfaction.
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Part of me wants to respond to those facts—just a surface level survey of a black hole of Bad Shit—by giving in to my escapist impulses.
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Oblique but not willfully cryptic, Unearth might be an open-ended allegory for our time, or an archetypal tale of banishment and return, or maybe pure escapist reverie.
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The aesthetic she cultivated on Instagram became an escapist alternate reality, to both her local followers and herself, one that erased the painful backdrop she grew up against.
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As engaged as it is with the state of the world, the music itself sounds escapist, which can be explained, in part, by the circumstances of its creation.
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For Le Guin, imaginative fiction is not "escapist" in the usual, derogatory sense, but in a different, subversive sense: "The direction of escape is toward freedom," she notes.
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The young Democratic political staffers I knew had been raised on the moralizing banter of The West Wing as an escapist alternative to the disappointments of the Bush era.
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Surrealist, sci-fi fantasy is a reoccurring theme throughout, represented best by the lush biophilic paintings of Anthony Padilla, and the slightly sexual, slightly escapist sculptures of Arpi Adamyan.
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Studios' current bias toward epic-scale escapist movies can be maddening for legacy directors of more adult-oriented dramas, many who have spoken out against the current film landscape.
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Under any of these scenarios, the Morning Report encourages escapist reading and binge-streaming and movie viewing for "mental recharge-ation," and to celebrate the last gasps of summer.
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In an era when so much comedy is boisterous and engaged with the world, The American Bystander's humor is understated and escapist, steering clear of topicality and political jokes.
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Much like VR, immersive theater—where audiences become active participants in the performance—creates escapist worlds, often replicating experiences where a user can take on a role as another.
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But at times, I feel like Westworld wants to be an escapist show that is simultaneously about everything in existence, and that's when it starts chasing its own tail.
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Pop has three options: it can back down into predictable blandness; it can descend into an escapist, sweat-drenched dance party, or it can stand up and say something.
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If he is the one who actually buys it, then I am absolved of responsibility, and my life of lying on the couch absorbed in escapist gameplay can begin.
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But I prefer to think of movies and musicals as less escapist and more like you're temporarily putting on a different set of glasses to look at the world.
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A book that transports me to another world without having to work too hard, preferably with well-drawn characters and a story line that is either relatable or escapist.
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Gallingly, none of the works rise very far above this special-interest corner; they're neither sufficiently escapist for beach reads, nor sufficiently wise to offer the means to escape.
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They are often accused of providing escapist fantasies of the past; this is unfortunately the case here as Scharer succumbs to the mythology of Paris in the early 1930s.
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If you're looking for obscure titles such as The Stanley Kubrick Archives, Pyromaniac's Cookbook, or high-brow magazines like gentlewoman,Artforum, and the Escapist, add this stop to your list.
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Also subversive: the idea of women reading books that are escapist delights instead of "bettering" themselves via the male-adjudicated canon or, honestly, doing housework or tending to their kids.
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It's the sort of comfortably escapist album that Eno has been making since he first coined and popularized the term "ambient music" in the mid 1970s—or maybe even before.
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While no one I spoke to believes that the UK's love of Friends stands to greatly decline or increase post-Brexit, the question of escapist entertainment from abroad certainly resonated.
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That's a dragon I personally chase when I seek surreal, escapist entertainment in games, and it is the inspiration for HoloJam, a colorful, glitchscape RPG based on creator SlimeMaid's dreams.
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Elements of Oz, a tech-driven celebration of the classic escapist film The Wizard of Oz, uses smartphones to deconstruct and revel in the enduring popularity of the iconic story.
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Perhaps it isn't fair to demand such an episode from a generally light-hearted comedy that works just as well as a joke factory as it does an escapist sitcom.
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The escapist, fantastical themes in the collection are blended with intimate reflections: mournful, elegiac verses about the death of her father, an engineer who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Summer television has improved more than that of any other season, but it's still a time for escapist pleasures — they're just smarter and better made than they used to be.
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The story is bogged down by overwrought melodrama during flashbacks to our heroine's major tragedy, but still, it's a satisfyingly escapist rom-com that knows what it needs to deliver.
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A viewer who has watched a steady flow of news about politics, for example, may see recommendations for related yet escapist content like political action movie "Air Force One," Smith said.
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A viewer who has watched a steady flow of news about politics, for example, may see recommendations for related yet escapist content like political action movie "Air Force One," Smith said.
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Through the course of his career, he's amassed an army of Parrotheads—what his fans call themselves—who identify with his escapist, laid-back attitude that comes through in his music.
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When I received my copy of "Forest of Wonders," I thought, now this is my kind of book: an action-packed escapist fantasy that will tax my brain not at all.
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Manipulating simulations of complex societal units, heavy machinery, and even day-to-day survival, on the other hand, present the gaming escapist with open-ended problems that mostly have wrong answers.
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Even escapist fantasy usually contains some message about war, love, heroism, corruption, or any other social or personal ill that can be easily packaged in a metaphor involving magic or dragons.
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And while we would never advise you to stop looking at the front page (those reporters are good), we can offer you some escapist reading when you're ready for a break.
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So harping on the dangers of automation, while it may sound tough-minded, is in practice a sort of escapist fantasy for centrists who don't want to confront truly hard questions.
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But even with the friction created by Tom Nook's creeping capitalist empire, the newest entry in Nintendo's pastoral series of animal-based life simulators promises a heaping dollop of escapist joy.
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The stylized bear, a huggable backrest on the Pack sofa by Francesco Binfaré for Edra, was one of many escapist moments this year at the Milan fair, which ended on Sunday.
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For example, in "At an escapist resort on the beach unable to escape" (2018) he employs a trio of found double-paned sash windows, all with grapefruit-size holes in them.
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Like the circus at its center, The Greatest Showman feels, at the very least, like a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, particularly at a time when the uncomplicated joy of escapist entertainment is essential.
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Unsurprisingly, much of the artwork reflected an escapist mood, most interestingly in the studios of Patrick Jacobs and Jaz Harold, where the artificial and the virtual was explored in 3-D detail.
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Questions of whether dance has a gender, whether people like to dance alone or in a group, and whether it's a spiritual experience, or a purely escapist one, all come into play.
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Enter your trusty streaming subscriptions, full of relaxing, comforting, escapist movies and TV with no real world implications (or at least enough of everything else to keep the real world at bay).
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On the other, there is something almost escapist about turning the clock back to the 2016 election, before the nominees were in place, before the news became all Trump all the time.
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But it's the whimsical escapist books on the list that surprise the most, because it suggests millions are missing out on what they should have gotten in their childhood or teenage years.
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Short of that, a nice bottle of wine certainly helps make parenting easier if you happen to drink, and so does a good, escapist book that doesn't require too much sustained concentration.
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Over the next decade the country was wracked by bloody civil war and images produced at the time swing widely from escapist visions of rural idylls to apocalyptic scenes of the battlefield.
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And in 220, through personal stories, nuanced analysis, and escapist fiction, podcasts helped us make sense of all of it—from weird Internet phenomena to the election-cycle-that-must-not-be-named.
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Not surprisingly, when Miller talks about comedy, he speaks of both its curative powers—an "escapist drug" he helps bring to others—and its practical, real-world, capitalistic applications, all with equal sincerity.
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When the characters discover and eventually become kings and queens of Fillory, their own version of Narnia, the escapist world operates as a Technicolor meditation on what it means to embrace adult responsibility.
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Escapist fantasy series such as Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings made box office billions just as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan filled American televisions with nightly scenes of horror.
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Broad City is almost back, and that means we're finally going to be treated to some escapist entertainment about being dead broke and moving between quarter life crises like they're social media tabs.
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" Still, the video's visuals represented the ultimate escapist fantasy to a Dubliner: "In Ireland, we don't get hot weather, so even if you did go to the beach, everyone was dressed like Victorians.
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Three months ago, Branson called me from Necker, his private island in the Caribbean, and said, "We see ours being the spaceship for Earth"—a vehicle whose purpose is not escapist but humanistic.
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Ironically, the technology to confront the problem is actually in A.L.T. itself—the work of art as it exists in our reality, not the escapist technology the fictional Absolute Life Transformation portal represents.
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Often, tabletop adventures offer pure escapist entertainment: from hunting and gathering during the stone age, to the awakening of nightmarish Lovecraftian beasts, to the colonization of Mars in the not-too-distant future.
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I refer you to Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, one of my favorite sources for such materials and fantastic escapist reading material in the winter (if you haven't already escaped to the Sun Belt).
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But just as any escapist entertainment comes into sharpest relief when contrasted with what it's an escape from, it seems unlikely you'll ever see Hashtag United on the big screen at a bar.
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Take modern escapist fantasies like tiny homes, voluntary simplicity, forest bathing and screen-free childhoods, then place them inside a delicate, moss-filled terrarium, and the result will look a lot like cottagecore.
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Just last year, another film critic from The Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan, wrote off the entire genre in an essay that suggested he sees scary movies narrowly, a genre for escapist shocks.
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Often, tabletop adventures offer pure escapist entertainment: from hunting and gathering during the stone age, to the awakening of nightmarish Lovecraftian beasts, to the colonization of Mars in the not-too-distant future.
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"It would be a mistake to dismiss Godzilla: King of the Monsters as mindless pap or escapist fantasy," wrote anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy and biologist Ryan Calsbeek, both from Dartmouth, in the journal Science.
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As long as our loved ones are integral to our identities, however, they may hold places in our escapist landscapes, featuring as prominently in online role-playing as they would in our nightly dreams.
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I'm also fascinated by situations that I could never really be in and as a cis femme, there is nothing about seeing two men fucking that I can connect with so it's totally escapist.
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However, rather than providing escapist scares that are left behind when the credits roll, other experts said well-received movies like "Get Out" are successful because of a core theme that resonates with moviegoers.
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It has many similarities to our beloved HSM, but just like Carney's past work (Once and Begin Again), it manages to be grounded in reality with escapist moments that don't feel forced or fake.
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Finally, because sometimes all you want is an original mind or a great escapist plot, we've also found a surreal story collection and a retro thriller and introduced them into the — well, you know.
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As much as anyone possibly could, she has taken on Oprah Winfrey's mantle as the queen of inspirational daytime talk, providing an oasis of positivity and escapist comedy in a culture short on both.
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Estonian noise rock was a left-wing escapist response to the stresses of everyday life that Lõo and his friends were trying to detach themselves from—a time of major social and political change.
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This is partly out of her own Pokémon fandom, partly out of her enjoyment of scripting escapist fantasies, and partly out of custom video requests—her Misty footjob video was commissioned by a fan.
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The fantasy might be a coping mechanism, an escapist vantage point from which to examine the environment — not unlike watching the tides turn at the expense of so many populations elsewhere in the world.
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For the Geminis of the world, this is an important time not to indulge in any escapist activities because it may be a long time before you're able to return to the real world.
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Whether dreaming up blow-dryer-headed soldiers who move in lifelike formation or a planet made entirely of skyscrapers, Mr. Lucas still champions wondrous visions over bleak ones and sustains his love of escapist fun.
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In this escapist romantic comedy, the Prince of Wales and the only son of the United States' first woman president fall into each other's arms at a party, then fall into a deeply passionate affair.
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The opportunity for audiences to step into their favorite story or movie, interact with characters, and have adventures that would never be available in reality, is in many ways the ultimate form of escapist entertainment.
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The studios also found themselves vying for respect from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, who had emerged as one of the first real stars of web video criticism thanks to his acerbic video series for The Escapist.
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As the white supremacists of the self-described alt-right rose and became a major political force, the escapist fantasy of the plucky teen hero who can save us all became less and less appealing.
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Bojack Horseman has done his own share of disappearing (he goes on yet another escapist road trip at the end of season three) but much of this season is about Bojack attempting to be there.
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But I reckon the biggest attraction for me is an escapist one: when I'm fantasising about something so deeply surreal, so utterly divorced from everyday life, the normal rules of relationships and sex don't apply.
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But by focusing on art, photography and other creative pursuits, and by studiously sticking to the kind of apolitical content that few people object to, Bored Panda has steadily built a feel-good, escapist empire.
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Some networks, however, like ABC, have said they are going to go in another direction: escapist fare, or shows that are brighter and lighter (consider that network is rebooting its old middle-class sitcom "Roseanne").
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Outside of these escapist sequences, Krisel finds warmth in small moments of triumph, whether it's Chip bonding with his nieces around Dale's dinner table or with his mother at the slot machines, on Easter Sunday.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Whether it offers an image of a sun-drenched beach or a pristine ski slope, the picture-postcard has become a photographic genre unto itself, synonymous with escapist fantasy.
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But in any case, for now we've got Lohan presiding over a gaggle of hot young things pretending to work at an expensive beach resort, almost certainly getting sloppy, all for our voyeuristic, escapist entertainment.
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There's an earnest, escapist quality to the characters' disillusionment with society, and their willingness to throw their old lives away to participate in a new movement (although it's possible that later episodes will complicate this optimism).
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It's an appealing escapist fantasy that is actually about escaping one's reality, a rom-com whose core message is for women to learn to love themselves, with an added bonus of romantic happy endings for all.
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I thought it'd be interesting to take some innocuous topics—going fishing, driving a pickup truck down a country road, or hanging out in the hot tub—and make these relaxing escapist scenes monstrous and corrupt.
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I find it hard to derive joy from anything that could invoke guilt so keeping it fantastical and escapist allows me to enjoy something without confronting some of the emotional challenges that come with actual sex.
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A lot of those mantras come off as bittersweet following his tragic death, but they remain as relatable and escapist anthems for a generation that deals with its problems by going live on Instagram about them.
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Comparisons have been made between this and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in that way: both albums take frightening, overwhelming subjects and weave them into something blissful and escapist, while still retaining their darkness.
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But Graff's half-century chronicle of the government's nuclear planning is far from an escapist spy thriller—he spends as much time on the mundane bureaucratic details of building and maintaining an elaborate worst-case scenario.
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And perhaps reflecting a more escapist mood, or the popularity of the Oscar-winning "The Shape of Water" or even just a fantastic accompanying image, a story on humans with amphibious traits garnered a lot of attention.
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The Pisces sun fuels our escapist urges until March 20 — and let's be honest, who among us hasn't been fantasizing about distant galaxies where human rights aren't assaulted by the powers-that-be on a daily basis?
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The three-hour bus ride from Chiang Mai winds through mountain passes and cascades down into into a verdant panorama featured on many a postcard, now home to an increasing number of itinerant backpackers and escapist hippies.
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And maybe this element—this escapist aspect—of pop further explains just why people are clambering over each other to listen to ABBA in a small room with a ceiling paved with gold glitter in east London.
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Leaving aside for a moment whether these ambitions are all too utopian, it is easy to see what is problematic about legislators relying on our escapist pleasures to perform some of the most necessary functions of government.
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You'll also find some good escapist reading here, including a perfect thriller ("Our Kind of Cruelty"), a topical and unsettling graphic novel ("Sabrina") and the latest horror tale from a modern master ("The Outsider," by Stephen King).
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It makes sound campaign sense, given how "The West Wing" has become such a beloved text for Democrats (and a handful of independents and Trump-averse conservatives) seeking hope -- or escapist relief -- in the post-Obama era.
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The first superhero movie to be nominated for best picture — for all its acclaim, even "The Dark Knight" missed the list — "Black Panther" goes further than any previous Marvel production in bringing thematic weight to escapist spectacle.
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U.S. digital health company Provata Health is one of several companies hoping to harness the technology's power as an escapist medium by using it as a backdrop for guided meditations — and has just launched a VR iOS app.
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I could go on, but the truth is the plot doesn't matter much, and it would be a shame to miss out on the twists and turns of what is really an escapist lark (pun very much intended).
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According to a 3353 piece on The Escapist, Tiger asked Universal to grant an exclusive license for a King Kong video game, and Universal, not expecting any interest for the property, gave Tiger a deal on the license.
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And since Cline's silly escapist fantasy wasn't specifically meant for girls — unlike, say, Twilight, which was getting savaged in popular culture at the time — Ready Player One was largely left alone by the people it wasn't built for.
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Zombies have been endlessly mined as cinematic symbols — for disease, poverty, race conflict, class conflict, escapist fantasy, and more — but here, they're just a repetitive visual joke, good for a few jump scares and some squashy sound effects.
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He's close to humble about his musician's "journeyman" status, about how rock music is at heart "escapist entertainment," and concedes that rock 'n' roll itself as a vehicle for ideas (always questionable to me) is in serious decline.
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In this respect, the trope has quite a bit in common with the use of school shooting drills as a romance trope on Wattpad — a way of turning a potentially overwhelming, scary phenomenon into an ironically escapist cliché.
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In his review, Vincent Canby, then The Times's chief film critic, cast the movie as another in a line of enjoyable escapist films — comparing it to the 1940's Flash Gordon serials and the theatrical adaptation of Annie.
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And with the work we have to do in the months ahead, we all deserve a few hours of escapist respite before we get out into the trenches to resist, organize and vote this country back on track.
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"Music is all we got" isn't an escapist phrase; it's an articulation of a history that reaches deep into gospel and the blues, a statement on everything that Chance's praise-through-pain aesthetic on Coloring Book is searching for.
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The startup recently announced it's adding The New York Times and the Financial Times to its $4.99 per month subscription model, which already includes The Economist, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Bloomberg and other light, escapist titles.
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Is the growing use of psychedelics an escapist response to our broken political and economic systems, a search for meaning in a universe so perverse that Prince and Bowie can die in the same year a racist replaced Obama?
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Culturally, we all feel so overwhelmed with dire tidings of doom that we keep looking for larger-than-life heroic figures to save the day, and that urge isn't limited to action movies, or animated movies, or escapist movies.
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But then I climbed into her car, and it was full of my queer Muslim siblings, my friend family, and we're on our way to such escapist joy that I decided not to tell anyone about the fleeting interaction.
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There are several theories about the "The Greatest Showman's" popularity, including the songs' earworm quality, the "Hamilton"-like way the musical puts a modern spin on a familiar story and even the escapist experience watching the movie can be.
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Right now, in the age of COVID-19 and social distancing, it's fairly easy to feel like we're living in the opening montage of a disaster movie, so watching The Walking Dead doesn't really feel like escapist fun anymore.
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Yes, it's thrillingly escapist to admire the beading on Lady Mary's exquisite gowns and fantasize about a world where servants iron your newspaper before you read it so you don't have to worry about getting ink on your fingers.
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Beginning the evening at Pierogi, Elliott Green's seductive landscapes offered alternative escapist worlds, while the title of the exhibition "Under the Map Room" suggests something more sinister at play given its nod to FDR's nickname for his "situation room" during WWII.
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Stardew Valley is an escapist getaway, a nice farm simulation game set in a tiny adorable little town where you get to shape a plot of land, learn how to make it work for you, and create your own little paradise.
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That invocation of youth speaks to an impulse these eateries are tapping into—starting with the food itself, which typically indulges our escapist yearning for greasy childhood favorites (think: the humorously corn-dog-sized mozzarella sticks on sale at Bernie's).
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Still, Wu notes that within China, "there is a growing acceptance of science fiction," and that as the economy has grown, people are "getting busier, wealthier and more stressed," which creates a perfect environment for new escapist genre film and television.
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For that reason and because, at 27, it is already too late for me to be young and gifted to the extent of the eponymous pop foursome, The Beatles: Rock Band is an escapist fantasy that's exceptionally easy to accept.
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Like a friend who tells you she's stopped reading the news as part of her "self-care practice," the app has filtered "the world's moments" through a self-perpetuating escapist fantasy that promotes blandness, niceness, and selfishness without apology or regret.
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That feeling becomes more intense as the track moves forward, suggesting a black cloud behind the silver-lined cumulus that the track opens with—a suggestion that the kingliness of "Aerodynamite" is mere fantasy, an extension of the dancefloor's escapist power.
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Their music is sunny and escapist, and whether they're performing in a studio, or soundtracking a rose-tinted beachy scene, they have an uncanny knack of being able to take you somewhere else entirely (you're probably drinking an Aperol Spritz).
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Following Japan's surrender, the popularity of manga rose as the public sought it out for its escapist properties; this was just as Tezuka, finding his way into the publishing world, was beginning to address more serious topics in his artistic work.
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These days, the most popular and noted horror movies — The Conjuring franchise, The Babadook, It Follows, and The Witch — tend to have a more supernatural or paranormal tilt, and I'd argue that they're thriving in part because of their escapist quality.
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The movie, filmed entirely in China, was engineered not just as escapist entertainment but also proof that the Chinese film industry can serve up global blockbusters too — that event films can rise in the East and play in the West.
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A refugee's struggle doesn't sound like escapist fare, but the show, a production of the Young Vic and the South African Isango Ensemble, features music from a number of African cultures and was well-received in London in the fall.
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I worry that if June is protected by plot armor for too long, the show will start to feel more and more silly and escapist and cathartic, like a fantasy, and less like an examination of power and how it oppresses.
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At some point in the past decade, music festivals have gone from countercultural communal gatherings to the corporate co-opting thereof—escapist popularity contests, complete with big-budget spectacle, cannibalized nostalgia, fashion lines at Forever 21, and feedback loops of one upmanship.
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It begins with something called "Heaven South," which one kind of hater will dismiss as escapist piffle but I say is Paisley's way of telling another kind of hater to quit feeling sorry for themselves and be grateful for what they got.
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These are among a handful of apps that are creating a charming alternative universe online — a welcome form of earnest, escapist entertainment that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, in a way that recalls an earlier epoch in carefree internet socializing.
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Of course metalheads are free to double down on the genre's escapist roots and focus on dragons, sleaze, or cartoon violence—but some of us would rather try to make the world even a little bit better for the next generation of heshers.
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The novel, out this week, is a roughly 300-page work of political fanfiction, an escapist fantasy that will likely appeal to liberals pining for the previous administration, longing for the Obama-Biden team to emerge from political retirement as action heroes.
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The title belies the serious content of this book, which traces the scourges of early Irish-American life — alcoholism, gangsterism, corruption — to the trauma and oppression the Irish suffered under English rule and the subversive (and escapist) habits they cultivated in response.
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Some argue that the bitter campaign and the heated political rhetoric after Mr. Trump's election could mean a TV landscape with a lot more escapist fare; others said that they have overhauled their shows to address a new world order head-on.
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I don't need to tell you why that's disconcerting, but it also means maybe the best reason to see Rules Don't Apply is that it is the very definition of escapist cinema: It will make you feel as if everything could be all right.
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But the bottom line is that it's impossible to square the escapist fantasy of vigilantes doling out lethal force in cool action sequences with any kind of thoughtful take on violence and morality, regardless of whether you acknowledge that the lethal force actually kills people.
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If you've been dosing yourself with the escapist mind-number du jour, A Christmas Prince, there might be one thing that's bugging you about it — you know, other than the fact that the Aldovian royal family has the most trusting security in the 21st century.
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But I've gotten tired of his cruelty and blinkered sociopathy and his monomania over the past two seasons, not to mention his frustrating illogic in spending 30 years heading to an escapist fantasy world, then loathing it and everyone in it for being a fantasy.
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The first is that the franchise's template was laid down by two terrific four-quadrant filmmakers, Joss Whedon and Jon Favreau, men blessed with the seemingly impossible ability to package escapist, familiar entertainment as something distinctive, even original, while still pleasing their corporate masters.
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Super Extra Grande is fun to read—and yet, absent the desperation of the stranded earthlings who populate A Planet for Rent, it feels slight, not entirely unlike the escapist pulp that U.S. science fiction writers churned out in the middle of the last century.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", the "Harry Potter" wizarding spinoff movie, had its world premiere on Thursday night, and the cast said they hoped the film would provide both escapist comfort and a message of acceptance in the real world.
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A complete and total demolition job is nothing more than a self-serving escapist fantasy; the majority are too invested in the system to dispense with it completely, but recent events prove that there's an appetite for change that outsiders can exploit from within.
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But she was nowhere in evidence here this summer on a cavernous soundstage, which was home to an update of the Carrington mansion, where this reporter spent many happy escapist hours as a pre-teen, learning nothing less than how to be a woman.
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There is escapist joy in Overlord, without a doubt, and it's obviously inspired more by World War II movies than the real world — but this might not be the right time to portray murderous white supremacists as some long-ago, over-the-top horror-movie threat.
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Marshall has been trying to construct an awards-season narrative around the film that deems it the "movie we need right now," by which he seems to mean that it's a bit of escapist fun that takes us away from the anxious age we live in.
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For, quite apart from the sins of escapist nostalgia and self-involved narcissism it has often wrought, the deep worry is that what Rieff calls "the memory industry" has also taken up the cultural space our more willingly forgetful ancestors made for forging a common future.
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And a big question burbling around the awards world is whether academy voters will, in the wake of the election, go for lighter, escapist fare, or a meatier film with a message, especially considering last year's eruption when all of the Oscar acting nominees were white.
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For one escapist hour, this endearing yet learned gathering offers taxpayers a speck of reassurance that a republic administered by a fair, competent and good-humored bureaucracy, where the people are connected by ideas and the fruits of the land, might still sort of, kind of exist.
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Set in 1984, when international worship of Michael Jackson was at its peak, the film juxtaposes an escapist love of modern pop culture against an unflinching look at the realities of life for the Maori working class and their struggle to keep their own indigenous culture intact.
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"Occupied" featured Russia surreptitiously invading Norway; in January, when, as a buffer against Russia, the U.S. deployed Marines to that country (the first time foreign troops had been stationed there since World War II), what had been an escapist thriller suddenly seemed oddly documentary in nature.
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The problem is that the film, directed by Zhang Yimou ("House of Flying Daggers"), was held up as not just escapist entertainment but also as proof that China can serve up international blockbusters — that event films can rise in the East and play in the West.
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In other words, if you're going to go to the lengths of crafting an idyllic Pure Moods experience—escapist and possessing a non-disruptive level of consistency when it comes to sonic makeup—you could do a lot better than seeking out the O.G. release's individual parts.
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If Stardew Valley supposedly offers an escapist fantasy of living rent-free in a cottage, out in the country, in a property bequeathed to you by a passing relative, the last thing I'd want to do in that dream scenario is work hard and toil away in a field.
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FROM RICK OWENS'S ragged T-shirts and canvas shifts to the giddy ornamentation of Alessandro Michele's Gucci, all glitz and blitz and reconstituted Elton John costumes, the spring collections appeared to not have a common thread between them — a seemingly bipolar mix of downtrodden, derelict styles and escapist fantasies.
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Summer series tend to be escapist in nature (think essentially every USA show ever — Burn Notice, Royal Pains, etc.), but there's still plenty of room for the occasional UnReal or Mr. Robot or Halt and Catch Fire — shows that really want to say something about the world we all live in.
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Walking the line between prestige escapist entertainment and plausible near-future parable, the show exploded into such mainstream relevance that the distinctive red robes donned by the Handmaids—fertile women enslaved and forced to copulate with elite (married) men—became shorthand for a real-life creep towards mass sexual oppression.
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Even this week, there's Bing Liu's excellent and decidedly non-escapist Sundance doc Minding the Gap, which just premiered on Hulu, and which considers modern masculinity through the experiences of the filmmaker and the friends he made while growing up in a Rust Belt town and seeking solace in skateboarding.
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Where to watch it: Via season purchase on Amazon During the leaden, serious first season of Legends of Tomorrow, there was almost no sign that the show would become not just one of the most reliably funny and escapist hours on television, but also one of the most fearlessly bizarre.
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Pop culture aimed at teens is simultaneously didactic and escapist: We want to pass good moral lessons to our youth, but we also often equate teen with trashy, and use the media we ostensibly create for teens as a way for adults to escape the pressures of post-teen life.
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In a strange way, loading up these escapist apps and watching friends and strangers act the fool feels wonderfully carefree, like a throwback to another old-fashioned pastime that has been outmoded by technology: channel-surfing on TV. There's a constant reality show on your phone, but an honest one, starring your friends.
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LOS ANGELES — It's got to be one of the best jobs in Hollywood: Sit around all day dreaming up fantasy political scenarios that are either so over-the-top crazy or wishfully idealistic — plotlines that could never play out in real life — that they provide the sort of escapist television viewers crave.
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Suddenly, the writers who work on political television shows were competing less with one another and more with real life, because of a president who transformed their seemingly escapist scripts into something resembling nonfiction — and scrambled the traditional notions of political cause and effect that they tended to base their drama upon.
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The soldiers are portrayed by John Cena(!) and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latter of which coming off a star-making turn in Tom Ford's loopy and murderous Nocturnal Animals; despite its post–Iraq War backdrop, it packs a tense, escapist punch even as it gets its hands dirty with political (and spiritual) qualms.
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All heavy eyeliner, hair dye and black faux-leather jackets, Creeper fused punk rock and pantomime in a way that blew the cobwebs off rock's escapist heyday - in doing so, they charged ahead of their stale contemporaries, and brought a certain magic and fun back to rock which had been lost for a while.
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Escapist pleasure is on the menu with many of this week's recommended titles, from Randy Kennedy's noirish debut, "Presidio," about a car thief with baggage, to Lisa Locascio's novel of erotic awakening, "Open Me," about an American exchange student in Denmark, to Valerie Trueblood's "Terrarium," a story collection filled with bad people and good dogs.
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"Take modern escapist fantasies like tiny homes, voluntary simplicity, forest bathing and screen-free childhoods, then place them inside a delicate, moss-filled terrarium, and the result will look a lot like cottagecore," says Isabel Slone, who wrote about the budding online movement, where scenes of idyllic pastoral life meet ideas of rural self-sufficiency.
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We live in an era when many of the genre's most far-reaching prophecies have come true, from radical inequality and authoritarian doublespeak to irreversible climate change and unsettling breakthroughs in AI. Dystopian fiction is inherently political, but it also gained steam because it was good entertainment, an escapist adventure into the frightening hypothetical consequences of human frailty.
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So when George Lucas — a filmmaker already known for the hugely successful American Graffiti — released a sci-fi picture that reveled in escapist tales of derring-do, of good guys and bad guys and narrow escapes, the world was ready — to the tune of more than $1 billion in 2015 dollars in the US and Canada alone.
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From "Too Real"'s breakneck charge to the heart of life's endless repetition, to the escapist bent of "Boys In The Better Land" ("Doesn't matter what you are / Get yourself a good car, get out of here"), there's a feeling of exorcism in both Dogrel's content, and the band's leave-it-all-on-stage live demeanor.
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How long "Take Two" can sustain that tension will likely depend on just how hungry people are for this sort of light escapist fare during the summer; and if the show exhibits even modest signs of life, how much ABC could use a possible utility player to plug into its lineup when something inevitably fails in the fall.
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Whether it is lesbians of the 1960s "sheltering behind an anonymous green door" on the King's Road, or a 1726 raid on Mother Clap's molly house—the name given to locations in which effeminate gay men would meet—in Holborn, the history Ackroyd paints is one of concealment and segregation: the dark side of the escapist ideals.
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" — but if that's what it takes to get well-written queer characters into the mainstream, that might ultimately be OK." If anything, instead of catering to the knee-jerk assumption that stories like Dream Daddy's escapist romance are inherently fetishistic, the game's broad success seems to indicate that there's room for multiple kinds of stories to exist under the queer narrative umbrella.
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But at a time when Western women are marching for their rights; when media coverage has shed long-overdue light on the various horrors women face in the workplace, from sexual harassment to the pay gap; and egalitarian marriages can still somehow feel out of reach — isn't it natural that we might be drawn to the escapist fantasy of a matriarchal society?
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" That's not an assessment to make the heart beat faster, but it captures the escapist, anodyne appeal that "Shoes" must have had for Americans still recovering from World War II. Directed by the veteran hitmaker George Abbott, with an episodic, joke-packed book by Stephen Longstreet, it was the longest-running show to open that year, outstripping "Brigadoon" and "Finian's Rainbow.
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This is an album—from former members of Smith Westerns and Unknown Mortal Orchestra—made for wandering, with tracks like "No Woman" and "Golden Days" evoking that feeling of whimsical daydreaming in which you find yourself cruising down an open highway in a big truck below a bright blue sky lit by a bright yellow sun—yet the escapist sound is laced with melancholy.
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The Ready Player One adaptation widens the story to encompass anyone who has a fantasy they'd want to play out in an escapist world, and while it turns its hero into a bland audience avatar, at least he's no longer a preening jackass who thinks his knowledge of Earthworld's Talisman of Penultimate Truth makes him objectively superior to someone who hasn't heard of it.
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It may also seem familiar, however, to anyone who watched President Donald Trump say there are "good people on both sides" in response to 2017's neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, VA. Not much else is revealed in the teaser, other than the knowledge that the old and new gods are very much at war and that the next season of American Gods probably won't exactly be feel-good escapist fare.
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With more and more creators publishing cheap or free mini-RPGs for fun, Stranger Things bringing D&D closer to the mainstream, and a skyrocketing number of RPG podcasts and Twitch streams illustrating how many ways there are to approach games, the barrier to getting into tabletop RPGs has never been lower, and I've never felt more comfortable recommending gaming as an escapist outlet, a social experience, and a creative experiment.
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Like on one level, I try and use technology in the modern films I make to simply show incredible things that, in terms of the story, what's in the script, like if it's a Tolkien script, or the "Mortal Engines" film we just made, or "King Kong" or whatever it is, I try and use technology to give people an escapist piece of entertainment at the movies and believable.
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That's not to imply that there are not great works out there in that form, only that I tend to lose interest just as soon as magic of any kind enters a story, for this strikes me as escapist, as a denial of the mortal hand we've all been dealt, and I prefer to read those works that confront our reality and limitations and thwarted longings head on.
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Already, otherwise intelligent folks in government in Seoul and Washington are resigning themselves to living with a nuclear North Korea under the escapist fantasy that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), instead of seeking the maximalist goal of reunifying the Korean peninsula on its own terms, is but a paranoid regime moved merely by the minimalist goal of muddling through — in perpetuity — as the perpetual inferior Korean state.
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I tend to side with Kim Stanley Robinson, author of a trilogy about the colonization of Mars, who in his more recent book "Aurora" portrays the dream of extraterrestrial colonization as a dangerous escapist fantasy — dangerous because it lets us imagine that we have an out, that we can just ditch this planet after we've ruined it instead of grappling with the imminent, serious, possibly terminal problems here, the only homeworld we're ever going to get.
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That legendary film, made the year Basinger was born, left an indelible impression on her as a young girl, already a budding cinephile, when she tagged along with her oldest sister to catch a revival screening in her Midwestern hometown during World War II. The story Basinger goes on to tell, propelled by equal measures of deep insight and breezy anecdote, spans the nine decades that stretch from "The Jazz Singer" (1927) through "La La Land" (2016), pointing to the complexity and diversity of a genre that is often thought to be merely light, escapist fare.
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