For example, The Americans being marketed as a cold-war era spy drama/thriller but actually being more of a character study or Buffy the Vampire Slayer being reduced to a cheesy teen drama but actually being full of metaphors.

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    4 days ago

    Adventure Time. It’s packaged like a kids show but gets into all sorts of philosophy on death and parallel dimension shenanigans.