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An excellent question. Since it's a plot or perspective technique which can be used in any kind of fictional story, I wouldn't call it a "genre." Science fiction, Western, soap opera, comedy, and p...
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An excellent question. Since it's a plot or perspective technique which can be used in any kind of fictional story, I wouldn't call it a "genre." Science fiction, Western, soap opera, comedy, and procedural are genres (with sub-genres like "medical procedural" and "lawyer procedural"). Having more than one "true" narrative could happen in any of those types of stories. I think "multiple realities" describes it very well, particularly if the viewer is meant not to know if one is more "real" than the other(s). It isn't quite [Rashomon,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect) but it's related.
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