The Dark Universe of Death
I was watching a series of TV shows set in an alternative reality referred to affectionately as The Black Universe Of Death. It was well known and widely loved around the world by those who like these sorts of things, don't have a life and don't mind not being able to sleep at night. It was only available through pay-tv, so therefore, by dint of collective cultural compulsion, here in Australia it was considered a national sport and a matter of national pride to be able to download and watch it illegally without paying a brass razoo to anyone. The alternative universe was one of a transmogrified version of the European High Middle Ages, with suitably imaginary different geography and names. Flying high with epic fantasy fiction, it involves impregnable castles with high turret towers, knights in plate armour, women wearing wimples and similar, jousting on horseback, professed notions of chivalry, monsters, zombies, freaks, dwarves, giants, dragons, blood, murder,...