Frye’s Mimetic Modes
How would one best describe the setting / “world” of the film or television series? Are there magical or supernatural elements? Are the laws of physics or other scientific understandings of the universe ignored or violated (Romantic)?
Alternatively, is the setting a recognizable “real world,” but with an emphasis on the elite, exclusive, or even “royal” levels of the social world of the present or past (High Mimetic)? Or is the world of the series an “everyday world,”middle-class, average in terms of social status or other kinds of “specialness” (Low Mimetic)? Or is the portrayed world more negative and restricted than average, one that is below what we might call “normal” society in some way–prison, post-apocalyptic waste, homelessness, cruel and unusual twists of fate, etc. (ironic)?