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Netflix drama Leave The World Behind. Netflix
March 28, 2025

Why we love the escapism of apocalyptic dramas

Scott Jones, University of Birmingham

Escapism through watching this kind of bleak content could be about a search for hope and rediscovering the coordinates for our existence.
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