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!

The fact that In hospital dramas there’s no admin or support staff.

Woman has night of passionate sex with a man (we have to watch). In the morning she leaps out of bed as she is late for work. She is already wearing underwear and picks up her crumpled clothes from the floor.

She puts them all back on while saying "I'll call you" to the guy. She has not been to the toilet, brushed her teeth or hair.

She runs out the door and delivers a killer presentation that earns her a new contract/promotion.

Nobody notices that she is unwashed with stinking breath and bird's nest hair, wearing yesterday's creased work clothes.

The actress playing her has fresh make up and perfect hair.

Sex scenes where they’ve been out all day, probably had loads of wees and maybe a sneaky poo then of course spent 4 hrs running from the mob but then peel all their clothes off and have rampant sex
Id be peeling my knickers off in a more literal way

@EduCated

Also the fact that childcare is never an issue. I am endlessly fascinated at how the 24/7 crèche in Greys Anatomy seems to work.

Yes this! Who exactly is raising meridiths kids??! And how do all these parents of young children have time to have so much sex! And what workplace accepts everyone having sex on shift 🤣🤣

Never, ever awkward conversations re contraception before sex. Both just assume the other has it sorted and no stds.

Walking around the house in the dark. Turn a bloody light on!!!

And all these workplaces with poor lightning, surely thats a health and safety issue? The CSIs used to be bad for that. Apart from Luminol what forensic tests need to be carried out in the dark?

And while I'm on it police interviews. I've never had one, I know they're recorded, but are they really carried out in low lit glass rooms with multiple camera angles?
Does the interviewing detective lose their rag and have to go outside for a fag?
Does someone often come in at the last minute with the perfect piece of incriminating evidence?

I'll admit I have only read half the replies so this might already have been mentioned but I get so annoyed by how everyone in film and TV seems to know the magic spot on someone's head and the right amount of force to use to knock people unconscious.

Characters are constantly 'knocking out' other people. They might knock out the bad guy (because they're a 'goodie' so wouldn't kill them but they need to be taken out of the action for a while) or - quite often - they knock out someone on their own side in order to 'protect' them from something.

They never hit the head too softly and just get an, 'Ow, what the fuck did you do that for??' in response. And they never do it too hard and accidentally kill the person or leave them with brain damage. No, no - always the magic hit that renders someone unconscious!

Oh and while I'm at it Death in Paradise.

If the detective gathers everyone together and tells them how he thinks the crime happened based partly on hearsay and his own theories. Would that stand up in a court of law?

I mean I love it but surely a good defence lawyer would tear that apart in minutes.

@StCharlotte

I wouldn't say this subject has been done before but I'm a fridge-leaver-opener and whenever I do it I always think a MNer is watching me in horror from afar.

I'm a fridge leaver opener too but I don't feel like there's mners watching me in horror, it's my mum, and she gives me into trouble everytime!

When the whole premise of the drama is about women being frightened/stalked/threatened/murdered/there's a serial killer/it's the husband/boyfriend etc etc.
Stop making it into entertainment. Drives me mad. And it's so prevalent.

Characters returning to their big fancy houses and all the lights and lamps already being on, despite the house being empty all day.

Also, when they go to bed without drawing the curtains/blind and just leave it all wide open with enough moonlight to light the room up for an important conversation. Extra points for leaving the window wide open every night. Really, in the UK? Malory Towers recently really annoyed me doing this!

Legal dramas where the lawyers completely disregard confidentiality or conflict of interest.

Suits is terrible for this. The lawyers merrily negotiate with their opponent without ever seeking their client's instructions. Drives me batty!

@Pebbledashery

And, why is toast always in a toast rack on the TV. Who has a fucking roast rack!

I love my toast rack!

@SuspiciousScully

I'll admit I have only read half the replies so this might already have been mentioned but I get so annoyed by how everyone in film and TV seems to know the magic spot on someone's head and the right amount of force to use to knock people unconscious.

Characters are constantly 'knocking out' other people. They might knock out the bad guy (because they're a 'goodie' so wouldn't kill them but they need to be taken out of the action for a while) or - quite often - they knock out someone on their own side in order to 'protect' them from something.

They never hit the head too softly and just get an, 'Ow, what the fuck did you do that for??' in response. And they never do it too hard and accidentally kill the person or leave them with brain damage. No, no - always the magic hit that renders someone unconscious!

Yes and they recover feeling perfecty fine. No concussion, nothing.

When the good guy is fighting a mob if baddies they all politely take turns to kick / punch him and give him time to get up to recover. I've seen bar fights, this never happens.

When 'professional' women wear high heels in their own home. Take them off, we know you want to! Don't wear them while fixing yourself a wine after your exhausting 'professional job', for God's sake!

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

Curtains are never closed. No idea how they can sleep when rooms always seem to be flooded with light.

When people in a soap get married/die there are never any relatives from other places. I know it's because they don't want to pay for extras to play the parts but it's funny how in Neighbours there is always an outbreak of some virus among the family of Aunt Charlene from Syndney that means 20 family members we have never seen will still never be seen.
People who die in TV dramas are always buried after their funeral . Burial is far more expensive than cremation in real life and the majority of people are unable/ don't want to pay for it. But in a TV drama they are all always gathered around the grave where some important piece of information with be revealed .
It is also always rainy, attractively frosty, dark and brooding for funerals and lovely and sunny for weddings

@Lilyargin

When the whole premise of the drama is about women being frightened/stalked/threatened/murdered/there's a serial killer/it's the husband/boyfriend etc etc. Stop making it into entertainment. Drives me mad. And it's so prevalent.

There was a thread about this recently and recommendations for positive female centred entertainment. Some really good ones. I'll look it out.

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal I love that! I hope you bring it to the TV sets you work on

Another one is how some people survive being shot and others don’t. I appreciate that’s true to life but it’s often unrealistic. In one series recently, a boy is shot once and dies but a man is shot multiple times on an island (a lot longer to hospital unless there was an air ambulance) and survives.

A woman going for a baby scan with a huge bump and they show a 12 week old foetus on the screen. I've seen this a couple of times.

Complete lack of cultural awareness as to how certain cultures act. I watched a film recently, in which a group of English people went to Japan for work. The Japanese office culture was so unrealistic.

Audrey in Coronation Street still working as a hairdresser even though she's in her 80s.

Masterchef Skills Test: its always 20 minutes but Greggg always asks. Every.time.

How quickly soap people are able to buy a propery, especially the Vic in EastEnders. It would cost millions and would take weeks to progress to completion.

How do supposedly poor people in Eastenders manage to have houses in such an expensive area. Its based on Dalston/Hackney area.
I know an ex one bed council flat go for 350k

My current bugbear is characters being all emotional or seductive or whatever in a scene and whispering their lines - but you can’t flaming hear what they’re saying. I have the subtitles on most of the time these days as it happens so often.

Crime programmes where soon to be victim arrives home late at night - realizes that their house has been broken into - stumbles around in the dark looking for intruders instead of switching lights on or going outside and calling the police - inevitably gets injured or kidnapped or murdered by intruder.