wish fulfillment

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Much of her experience with the series has been wish fulfillment, partly because she had manifested working with Sennott years before “I Love LA” was in development, but mostly because she had dreamed of being an actor since she was a kid.

From Los Angeles Times

I had a similar lightbulb moment, years after when I would watch TV and think, “How much of this is just wish fulfillment?”

From Los Angeles Times

Moore recently sat down with The Times to discuss why she wanted to write a book about friendship and why so many TV shows such as “Friends” and “New Girl” — where adult friends hang out 24/7, never postpone coffee dates and resolve conflicts in 20 minutes or less — are ultimately about wish fulfillment.

From Los Angeles Times

The scale to which a greater populace is insistent that the record is comparable to an original record is more a matter of wish fulfillment than a reflection of the generative tool’s capabilities for artistic expression.

From Washington Post

At one point, Aster stages a magnificent play within a play within a play that recalls the soaring counterfactuals of “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “25th Hour,” a gorgeously designed and executed fantasy of what might have been that plays like a wish fulfillment allegory conceived by Grant Wood on psilocybin.

From Washington Post