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The BBC has announced that it has invested £150,000 in a podcast series that will attempt to cash in on the trend for “hopepunk”. Based on the assumption that we are living in mercilessly dystopian times, it is a genre that offers a softer alternative for fraught millennials: optimism delivered as powerfully as possible through acts of kindness and “consciously chosen gentleness”. It is generally considered the opposite of “grimdark”, which is also a thing. But if you can’t wait for this buoyant new podcast, I have good news: we are already awash in hopepunk, whether you knew it or not. Here are 10 of the best series to get into:
The Good Place
A sitcom that exists purely to explore the practical functions of ethical utilitarianism, arguing that even the most flawed human beings are capable of change with the right...