escapist

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But he also defended his creation as escapist entertainment, and argued that it offered ordinary people a chance to air grievances and express themselves in a public forum.

From Washington Post

Springer called it “escapist entertainment,” while others saw the show as contributing to a dumbing-down decline in American social values.

From Seattle Times

But an escapist fantasy that is literally a fantasy of female escape — methodical, collective, ethical, well-provisioned and in plenty of time?

From Washington Post

For more escapist fare, Netflix adds the globe-trotting "The Hangover" this month – and both sequels – for a truly debauched movie marathon of manchildren.

From Salon

Granit and Maymon allow the characters, and the audience, to escape the clinic through the women’s shared guided visualizations, which they call holidays, escapist fantasies to an island rainforest, Burning Man or just back home.

From Los Angeles Times