Things that really annoy you in tv shows

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When Rando members of the public become part of the police and can go to suspects houses to talk to them.

Watching a show on Netflix. Woman goes back to old town after her parents are murdered and then a series of murders happen. She becomes buddy buddy with the local cop and then goes to all the interrogations, suspects homes, fucking joined them all in a rescue mission.

Drives me bonkers when they do this!

@Avarua

And unrealistic childbirth. Never on all fours roaring. Always on back, panting.

And always a perfect freshly washed baby who is closer to 3 months than newborn size

@PickledPeppa oh yes, that's the magic right there!

Then again, she's Abby, the magical forensic scientist who can do literally anything. There was an episode where she was forced to create something that could be put into a city's water supply and kill or affect one person based on their targeted DNA. So she does! And you'd think this sort of tech would shake the known universe as we know it, but it's never mentioned again!

Completely unrealistic farms with hens running around the yard. A few pigs and a random selection of sheep wearing their EID tags even in period dramas

When teachers make up shit on a whiteboard and fluff around in a classroom then get home at 4...
Was always 7 - 7 where I worked. Horrible environment.

@AngelinaFibres

That when the police come to interview a subject in a crime drama the subject is rude, evasive, sarcastic or walks off halfway through the conversation because they are bored with the subject. I can't imagine doing that in real life if 2 detectives turned up at my house

Yes!!! Annoys the hell out of me. There's no way that you'd carry on ironing, filing, feed yer feckin' pigs when two detectives come to ask you for your alibi. I'd be sat square on my arse sweating spinal fluid!

Anything with the police in it seems to involve ten or so officers being assigned to one crime and one crime only. They solve that and then get another case, again with a huge team that works solely on that.

How many officers exist in TV land?

The doctors who do everything for the patient, including getting them out of bed, bringing meals, wiping the fevered brow. Last time I was in hospital, I saw the doctor for about 10 seconds a day and I can assure you they weren't wiping my brow.

Characters who order drinks or food in restaurants and cafe, then at that exact moment their food arrives, some inordinate crisis occurs meaning they have to leave full plates of food and full cups of drinks. I mean talk about wastage.

If there’s a tv producer floating around, they could make the MOST satisfying series based on this thread that did everything right!

I’m on S2 of the series that started this thread. Different storyline, still annoying - this time there’s someone trying to kill them all so instead of staying in the hut. With doors. And safety measures. They are walking 30 kilometres in pitch black through a forest

@Pebbledashery

Characters who order drinks or food in restaurants and cafe, then at that exact moment their food arrives, some inordinate crisis occurs meaning they have to leave full plates of food and full cups of drinks. I mean talk about wastage.

Half the time it's not a bonafide emergency that means they can't stay at least for a few minutes to finish their 5 pound pint or eat their expensive meal.

Agree with probably all of these!

I've noticed recently in crime dramas, when a detective gets a call from one of their colleagues with some useful information, they never say "thank you": they just hang up.

When they move around their house from room to room, all of the lights are always on. Each room has about 6 lamps on. Their electric bill must be horrendous!

And also the medical staff who become really good mates/extremely invested with the patients. They spend hours wheedling their life story out of them then pop to their houses to sort things out for them.

Back in the real world they're so busy you're going well if they remember your name 

When it's snowing outside and the characters, usually female, are seriously underdressed.
They aren't even shivering and there's no mention of the cold.

Another one is product placement, it always stands out to me and starts me thinking when are they going to say / show it again, what was in the contract. So distracting.

Also in all the detective / crime / legal type dramas the main character will have a super whizzkid nerdy friend who can hack into any computer and get them any information they want.

I'm no expert but I'm sure it's not that easy and there can't be that many nerdy guys available to do anything, even illegal to help their lawyer/ detective/ crime fighting friend.

Another is when characters, mainly English ones living in London in American movies, live in ridiculously expensive homes, despite being supposed failures / short on cash/ or just in a normal job which wouldn't buy them that much.

When characters job roles expand like crazy so you have coroners investigating crimes, lab tech’s interviewing suspects, GPs providing specialised cancer care or teachers making house calls etc.

Crime shows - when police see their suspect in the street and announce themselves straight away, leading to an inevitable chase.

Everyone has peoples full names in their phones - it’s never mum or Jane, it’s always Jane Jones etc.

And my last one (which annoys me most) is when American shows written and produced by Americans cast an American actor to play a British character. You end up with a bad accent (either upper class Queens English or cockney) but they use American words like pants for trousers, band aids for plasters, diapers for nappies etc.

When they live in a decent sized house, no doubt with spare bedrooms, but any time a visitor comes to stay, or a partner is booted out of bed, for the night - they always have to sleep on the sofa

ALWAYS

When 3 of them are in a house and one of them walks across the room and the other two have a conversation at full volume that the other person would definitely hear.

@FranklySonImTheGaffer me too. Why have a character be British at all if they are going to say "I'm pissed because when I was taking my groceries out of the trunk my carton of PEAnut butter slipped and broke on the sidewalk "

And if they are pretending to be British they always have nice clipped accents, they’re never from Birmingham or Sheffield.

When someone, usually a scantily clad supermodel-esque type, hears a noise in their house and suspects it may be an axe murderer so they go into the basement and start wandering around in the dark, rather than getting the fuck out of their house.

In the soaps when people can sit and drink and drink in the pub and never get even slightly tipsy, UNLESS

a) They're going to have a storyline about alcoholism
b) The plot requires them to spill a secret or punch someone.

Oh, and when the police / unsuspecting spouse / patsy leaves the room and literally seconds later the characters are discussing their plans / misdeeds / affair I'm like, "Give it five minutes! They're still in the hallway ffs, they can hear you!"

Oh, and when the police / unsuspecting spouse / patsy leaves the room and literally seconds later the characters are discussing their plans / misdeeds / affair hmm I'm like, "Give it five minutes! They're still in the hallway ffs, they can hear you!"

The worst ever tv show for this was FRIENDS. They didn’t even leave the room, they just moved from the couch and tv area to the kitchen/table area in the same room and lowered their voices slightly. They would then talk about affairs/Ross and Rachel/some secret in clear earshot and in sight of the person they were talking about! I spend half the time wondering why Ross doesn’t just turn around on the couch and say ‘oh I didn’t realise you were still in love with me glad I know that now.’

Waking up and kissing straight away. Have they not heard of morning breath?

Anything in soaps involving prem babies

Baby gets taken to a private room usually with minimal wires and then they have whole scenes with no nurses present. That's not any NICU experience I've known. Not at birth any way