escapist

Some films are escapist and you watch it and you forget about reality.

Are these escapist behemoths really somehow diagnosing the times in which we live?

"I have always been a bookworm. I will read a bit of anything, but fantasy is my niche because it's escapist," she said.

The Netflix romance drama capped its sixth season, now streaming, with the long-anticipated wedding of Mel Monroe and Jack Sheridan, the show’s central couple whose relationship unapologetically leans into its escapist fantasy rubric.

Many of them have headed for outlets that provide escapist entertainment, such as the Hallmark Channel.