Unrealistic things you see in films or TV programmes.

[Twinklettoz]

Inspired by watching El Camino on Netflix... Lots of breaking of burner phones. Literally just snapping them in half... Er I'm sure that doesn't stop your phone being traced.. Surely it's the sim card you need to destroy..
What do you find unrealistic in films or on TV?

Nobody ever has periods. Not even when they’ve been kidnapped, or trekking the Antarctic, or living in a post apocalyptic wasteland with no shops. You never hear someone go ‘oh crap, Ive just come on, where am I going to find tampax on Mars…?’

People who are Up To No Good but never have a cover story thought up beforehand. Like, they're going through their colleague's desk and someone catches them, it would be really easy to say "I'm looking for a stapler" or something, but instead they just stand there looking shocked. Like, make up a story first!

Women

Laboratory scenes with lots of coloured stuff in flasks often with fumes coming out. No Laboratory I've ever been in!

All sex😂

@SatNightFever

Nobody ever has periods. Not even when they’ve been kidnapped, or trekking the Antarctic, or living in a post apocalyptic wasteland with no shops. You never hear someone go ‘oh crap, Ive just come on, where am I going to find tampax on Mars…?’

That was something I loved about Not the End of the Fucking World on 4. That was a girl on the run and she came on and had to nick a box of tampons.

@SatNightFever Rachel WAS taking Emma to Paris, she went ahead to set up the apartment and her mother was bringing Emma a few days later. Ross didn't appear to notice this or object, although he flipped when Emily suggested he move to London and he refused to leave Ben. The son he subsequently forgot existed.

Craggy 60 year old with 33 year old wife

The houses people seem to live in, without having any discernible job…

They never get their pockets caught on door handles (just me?), walk about the house in holey underwear then need to panic dress when someone knocks at the door, they never spend hours dicking about on their phones or pop a microwave meal in.

In detective shows, where they have the big whiteboard with photos of the suspects and arrows drawn all over it - where do they get the perfectly posed mugshots of everyone from?? Often these are people they’ve not even questioned yet. That always irritates me.

In Bloodlands they had photos of four missing people - three of them the aforementioned perfectly posed mugshots, one blurry, from-the-side, almost unidentifiable photo. The crap picture? Was of the LEAD DETECTIVE’S WIFE! Surely he had a decent photo of her?

Phone calls are always connected instantly, and when arrangements are being made, it’s always ‘see you for a drink later’, no mention of time or place.
And YY to the moving away to a different country at a day’s notice with no mention of visas, passports, medical etc, and only one hold-all with all your worldly goods.
Two bed terraced houses on soaps which stretch to hold several people.
And people in Eastenders who can afford houses in the square with what seems like part time bar work.

Not finishing drinks

Or food!

Not only in crime films, but in ordinary films too, people dash out of a restaurant , throw money on the table leaving their meal! That really bothers me! The exact opposite of 'The Two Ronnies' who did the Charley Farley and Piggy Malone sketch where they were officers who would dash off to a crime - only after they had a lovely cuppa. Priorities! Priorities!

The houses people seem to live in, without having any discernible job…

God yes! The huuuuuuuuge apartments they lived in with no job or a poorly paid one! I was thinking of this the other day. Remember the Doris Day one where she works in a cafe/canteen. Ok she shared with a friend but her bedroom was bigger than my sole room!

Oh and don't get me started on people waking up with perfect make up on their face! When I sued to forget/be too lazy to remove mine there would be multicoloured smears all over my pillow and my eye make up and lipstick would be smudged!

Plus a woman who was in the jungle would emerge with a slight but of dirt along a perfectly chisled cheekbone, the 'sweat' would merely be a glow and her hair wasn't an oily frizzled mess. Grrrrr! They probably smelt 'fragrant' too!

Also all the films and TV shows (Suits, I'm looking at you) where they have screaming matches in the office. If my boss, or anyone, spoke to me like that at work even once they'd have my resignation letter and a tribunal.

They never get their pockets caught on door handles (just me?),

Me too. All the blasted time!

In The 100 they sent 100 teens down to colonise Earth. No one got pregnant and indeed for 5? seasons and yet no discussion over population concerns, or the impressively long lasting contraception.

Getting jilted at the alter. Has it every happened to anyone in real life!?

I loved Catastrophe, but a scene that really grated was where Sharon arranges to meet her husband in a bar. She brings their toddler along, who sits serenely in the pushchair while she sips a margarita in the bar. As if! My children are past the toddler stage but I've still never been able to drink anything without some sort of interruption!

Door knocking - noticed this on Long Lost Family - davina knocking rather than using the bell which is right there. Understand that the bell might not be picked up on audio so it does make sense. I now notice this everywhere.

@YesIDoLoveCrisps

Wherever they drive to there’s always a perfect car parking space.

You beat me to this.....

In fights between two men, the person punching doesn't hurt their hand and can carry on punching indefinitely. In reality, unless you're a trained fighter, one good punch to a solid area like the jaw will hurt like hell and often break a bone in the puncher's hand.

Wedding, you invite the whole street but not your sister who moved to Manchester.

Don't get me started on ECGs, flatlines, defibbing.

Women living through a zombie apocalypse or spending 20 years in a psychiatric hospital still manage to have perfectly styled eyebrows.

Historical fiction where the clothes are too modern or the makeup is wrong. It's particularly jarring when you see something set in 1800s but filmed in the 1970s and you can see the mismatch between when it was set and when it was made.

Modern language / idioms in historical drama.

People in soaps go and sit alone in a cafe to have a coffee instead of going to their home a few houses away.