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!

I like playing ‘spot the doll’ when any scenes involve a small baby- 9/10 it’s a doll and they’re just playing crying noises

Actor walks up entirely silent hallway / other room. Opens (worlds most soundproof)door to enormous riotous noisy party / disco / speakeasy / and only at that exact SECOND so he hear the music / gunfire / shouting.

So many films & tv shows do this

*do we

When someone is finally about to confess that awful shocking secret that's gone on for 3 million years... and the fucking phone rings 🙄

Dh is a total train nerd, and always points out when the interior and exterior shots of a train are actually two different trains.

I used to be a theatre nurse, and a lot of what they do in medical dramas looks wrong to me.

Wearing a full face of make up sitting in bed.

When a scene with just one lamp on is perfectly lit. Then when they flick the lamp off it goes from broad daylight to blackout.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

Dh is a total train nerd, and always points out when the interior and exterior shots of a train are actually two different trains.

I used to be a theatre nurse, and a lot of what they do in medical dramas looks wrong to me.

Out of interest would you say ER was pretty accurate?

It's so long since I watched it that I honestly can't remember, @OhLookMoreShit - I blame old age and covid fog!!

@Littlewhiteballs

Also every English TV series has the characters living in either million pound mansions and driving range rovers, or in run down council estates surrounded by drugs and poverty. Where are all the normal towns full of 3 bed semis and people with average jobs?

Isn't that a bit like Mumsnet though ? Not so much the drugs but people are either in huge detached houses earning £100k+ pa or on the breadline in a small rented flat . Never in a normal semi! (Apart from me!)

The coffee cup thing, even in takeaway cups with lids you can see by the way they hold them that they're empty.

People driving who turn to talk to their passenger. Makes me anxious they'll crash even though I realise they're not really driving.

Seeing a lot of it at the moment - Christmas Specials that were clearly filmed in midsummer. Sun high in the sky, leaves on the trees, people wandering about in T-shirts.

Most medical things (my DH won't watch anything with me as I get so annoyed) but particularly anything surgical. There seem to only be 2 possible outcomes of any kind of operation - either sitting up in bed like nothing has hapoened 5 mins later or death on the table. You never hear anyone saying "yeah, he's doing ok but we're waiting for physio to do a stairs assessment" do you?

People leaving their jobs at a moment's notice without having to work a notice period or do any handover, or in the case of medical dramas there's never any concern about getting someone else to cover their shifts when one of the surgeons suddenly leaves to follow their heart and move across the world to be with their lover... Also moving house without spending time packing.

No one seems to lock their front doors after themselves.
Or collect their change when they handover a £20 note for a coffee.
Not finishing the normal sequence of events bothers me ( a lot!)

In American programmes with these huge houses but they have unexpected visitor or the husband is in trouble and they sleep on the couch - no spare rooms with beds in that mahoosive house???

When babies are born very prematurely, spend two episodes in an incubator than come straight home looking like they're ready to crawl.

People having time to visit people, go to the pub, eat meals and generally have full on dramas in their lunch hours.
Most people I know struggle to have time to go for a wee in their "lunch hour".

Houses with elastic walls (Coronation street I'm looking at you!) where near strangers are invited to move in to a three bed terrace that already has six occupants. There's rarely any issues about being kept awake by snoring, needing to buy bunk beds or needing a rota for the shower in the morning.

Oh, and how every series has the one generic HCP who can do everything. One day they are in primary care, next doing neurosurgery or running the labour ward.

@Littlewhiteballs

When an adult enters the room looking all serious or upset so they tell the children to "go play in your room" and the children immediately get up and leave without complaint!

DH and I always comment on that one too.

Mine is: someone always pukes up in the first episode. Usually the main character. To prove how stressed they are. Yawn.

In The Eqlking Dead - baby Judith seemed to change into about 5 different children during a single scene. One second she has brown hair, next fair and ginger, then back to brown, all in the space of 3 minutes.

Defibrillating when someone is flatlining. It’s a non-shockable rhythm!

Hospital dramas where they have an (always back to front ) X-ray up on a light box. Also when a doctor seems to be able to perform every type of surgery and read a ct or MRI scan.

When people in a tricky situation lie, often repeatedly, thus digging themselves into a deeper pit of shit, when all they had to do was just be honest and fess up to their mistake.

Not anything specific, more to do with how fast characters get over things or don't mention a really big life event once that part of the storyline has finished.

People recovering from comas or serious injury in days and then going about their normal life with no need for rehabilitation or seemingly suffering any long term side effects.

Drivers who don't watch the road while they're talking.

Kids leaving the classroom as soon as the bell rings.

In soaps, people just leave to start a new life with no notice. Just pack their things and go.