Does anyone else's Dp pick holes in TV programmes?

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I have covid at the moment so am stuck inside. I usually work outside the home with a long commute so not much time for TV. Dp works from home (runs his own business) which isn't doing well at the moment.

Because I'm home more and isolating, I'm able to watch a bit more TV. I watch TV to escape primarily and sometimes documentaries for interest.

I sat down on Sunday night to watch Vera. Dp sat down with me and immediately started. 'She would never be able to drive that landrover, she would need a police car that could be insured and they wouldn't insure that.' 'There's no way that the NCA wouldn't have jurisdiction' and ON AND FUCKING ON. This is just an example - unless it's a purely factual piece of TV where the facts can't be disputed, he's picking a hole in it.

I don't give a flying fuck how realistic it is or not but actually having someone mither in my ear was so bleeding annoying. I told him to stop and it's almost like he can't - he looks fit to burst to point out to me why something can't be right. In the end, I actually raised my voice and told him to go and do something else rather than bother me at which point he did finally shut up. He said he just enjoys watching tv with me and we don't get to often watch stuff together and he's getting involved etc etc. it's not like he's 12 either, he's 50 fgs!!

Does anyone else's Dp do this? I'm tempted to tell him I'll watch TV on my own going forward!

Oh, and there are times when he's moaning about t.v. and I can't find anything to watch either that I will hand him the remote control for the t.v. and say: you do it.

You channel hop instead of me and I'll moan about the broadcast output.

@honeylulu

No. 2 on your list really made me laugh !

Mine has irrational dislikes of certain TV presenters (Monica Galetti and George Clarke being two examples that come to mind.)

If I'm watching a show featuring one of his 'awful' people he is allowed to make a maximum of 3 negative comments, within the first 10 minutes, then he understands that he has to shut it!

I bloody love Vera

Oh DF does this incessantly. My poor DM. And it's always over a programme she loves but that he disapproves of or doesn't want to watch. It's basically him pissing all over her relaxation time and disrespecting her because you can bet if it was on at a friend's house he'd manage to control himself.
James Bond though - never say anything against that or woe betide you.
TV - control of it, shaming programme choices, watching in different rooms etc etc - easily weaponised in unhealthy situations IME.
Obviously that's not the case in every example but when someone does it incessantly despite being asked time and again to stop, it's often the tip of the iceberg.

I'm definitely guilty of this, but in my defence it's almost too easy to do it with a lot of TV dramas.

He says that wouldn’t happen, I say it could. I find proof on Google. He says I always have to be right. I say it’s not often you’re right but you’re wrong again. Apparently I’m annoying.

I don't do this, but I do try to guess the ending. Potentially just as annoying, but fortunately my bf likes to do the same thing

My DP likes to sit there just saying "God, isn't this shit?" about every programme I like . ANNOYING.

Yep. I’ve got one of these too

@TheNewGnuKnew

I'm the guilty party for this in my household . I shall think of this thread and try to shut up in future .

Me too! We nearly fell out over The Tourist. I could live with the inaccuracies, it was all the characters seemingly behaving out of character!! We all have our limits.

Ha! Oh yes game shows. I have discovered the utter delight of Lingo on ITV. According to Dp, this is the easiest game ever!

So we watched on Friday and there were some really difficult words. He was screaming at the TV 'there's a G and an E it's obviously Gate, it's GATE it's G A T E' and then it keeps going and it's not Gate, it's Grey. Cue silent Dp.

My husband does this about anything to do with courts and trials and journalists/newspapers. My mum does it about anything to do with nursing. I just pick holes in the plot and point out all the flaws. My sister refuses to watch TV with any of us unless it's a wildlife documentary.

If you both do it together, though, it can be quite fun. There is one particular programme I watch with my bf that we only watch to pick it apart - it is a schmalzy series about doctors set in a village in the Alps where there are multiple weekly catastrophes. We like to predict who is about to collapse with what disease and scoff at how ridiculous it is. Literally the only reason to watch it.

Tbf, I saw the trailer for Vera a couple of times this week and was face palming at the stupidity and unreality of it.

I do tend to comment on what I'm watching and my son also now has this habit.

I appreciate some might find it annoying. But I do tend to think if we don't actively strive to notice the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in these things, it's easy to put our brains in neutral - which can result in a long term "dumbing down" effect over time.

Surely everyone picks holes in Corrie, it's an essential part of the viewing experience.

Tbf there is a difference between the odd comment and discussion and an almost stream-of-consciousness level commentary slating various aspects of a TV show and making it unenjoyable as a consequence.

Which sounds like what OP's DP is doing, and mine does too.

Oh yes. Most recently I have had "lessons" about military uniforms. WW1 British and WW2 German. Both programmes were fiction. Lessons were bith conducted while I was trying to follow the respective plots.

Hahaha, oh yes my FIL does it. Derisory snorts and sarcastic laughter over what you're trying to watch/hear, and remarks about a plot being "far fetched" or "so contrived".

My DH nearly had an aneurysm when he said it all over a James Bond film. That's kind of the point...

Ah my DP is fucking speshul at this kind of stuff.
Not only does he comment a lot on random stuff that does not matter in the context of film or programme, he ALSO very rage inducingly mentions the cars in anything on TV.
I am so fucking sick of hearing that the taxi in kingsman has a Yorkshire numberplate.
Does it fucking matter?
Is it integral to the film?
Also when watching some shitty car fixing show with ed China and the little fat guy.
DP "blah blah if he turned that doohickey around the whatchamacallit will just slide right out"
3 seconds later
Ed " if I turn this doohickey a full 180 then this part will just slide right out from under"
DP "told ya"
Me "IDGAF"

Oh dear I think I do this

@Sweatilicious ha! Bond is untouchable for my DF "it's harmless escapism!" OK so WTF doesn't that apply to anything someone else likes then 🙄

DH doesn’t pick holes but he often decides to talk to me when I’m watching a programme he has no interest in. At least we have pause/ rewind but it’s still annoying! I have pointed out many times that I try hard not to chat away through his programmes!

I do this if I've read the book before Watching the film. I've not had one partner who has agreed to watch a film if I've read the book. I've started picking at other things though like PPs husband on paw patrol I'll try and be mindful it's annoying. DH probably does

Laughing at this thread. Guilty. As a kid I was definitely one of those annoying commentators andit drove my parents and siblings nuts. While I now understand their vexation and I no longer do it , my job actually involves teaching teenage girls to analyse and give real time commentaries on TV drama and film for their GCSE course. I often joke at the start of year 10 that If I do my job right they will be ruin their families' enjoyment of TV for ever... Sorry¬