Isn't that how Friends started?
Amanda runs into the wilderness and stumbles upon a Renaissance Faire, one of those summertime celebrations of all things Elizabethan -- well, the fun things anyway. There's boozing, dancing, craft booths, jousts, swordplay. Workers and many of the guests wear Elizabethan costumes and stay strictly in character. There are classes in how to speak, wave, bow, and pretend not to be aware of modern technology.
At first Amanda is dismissive of the daffy, reality deprived weirdos, but soon she realizes that her world is equally reality deprived. Besides, she was an English major, and likes this Renaissance stuff. When her mother and sister show up to take her home, she refuses. She gets a job at the Faire, and immerses herselves in the lives and problems of other "rennies" (faire professionals).
I'm surprised that there are so many of them, considering that they work only on weekends during the summer. It can't be a full time gig. But:
Delilah (Mary Hollis Inboden) has an act involving doing laundry and making sexual innuendos.
Maggie (Seanna Kofoed) has been playing Queen Elizabeth for over 20 years, and is worried about aging and losing her power.
The female sexual empowerment stuff gets a little distasteful at times. I fast-forwarded through some discussions of vaginas. Did you know that they come in different sizes and shapes? I do, now.
But the colorful interactions among the characters, both in the Faire and back home on the Upper East Side, are worth sitting through some "boob and bush" discussions.
Besides, just about everyone on the show is gay, bisexual, or pansexual. There's even a three-way relationship between Natasha (Sophie von Hasselberg), Stephen (Ross Bryant), and Phil (Edgar Blackmon).
And there's a lot of beefcake. Most of the shirtless actors are playing scruffy, unwashed Elizabethan underlings, but there are also some buffed physiques about.
The first season is up on Vudu and Amazon Prime. I'm watching slowly, an episode every few days. I don't want it to end.