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!

DH - Why do they have to ruin every show, blah blah, totally unbelievable, that character would never behave like that, blah a bit more - um, What did he just say?
Me - no idea I can't hear the telly over the ranting.

@Rainydonkey

I am guilty of this too. I don't think it winds DH up, or at least he has never said it does. The man clearly has the patience of a saint.

Me too. I find some programmes so ridiculous I cannot help myself. I could never watch soaps or perhaps Vera then for this reason. I do like some attempt at realism for a character to be 'believable' for the role in crime programmes/police/hospitals etc. So many are completely awful.

@manofgreengables

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¬

Brilliant.

I think we are supposed to just suck up the rubbish tv and say nothing. Great that the teenage girls learn to do this and not believe all the shit that is on tv which gives a completely unreal representation of many things.

I do this . I do try and shut up if it's something the other person enjoys though so I don't ruin it for them.

Guilty as charged.

I do this non stop. It's part of the fun.

Mine seems to pounce on historical inaccuracies, like a glimpse of telephone wires, or double yellow lines.
And he relishes picking out modern day hairstyles and make up in period dramas. When men had longer hair, he complained that there were no short back and sides in WW1 dramas, and recently noticed some slug eyebrows on a supposedly Victorian woman.

I used to be guilty of “but that London street doesn’t go that direction…that’s not how you get from Marble Arch to the Eye… “ and then they made a huge joke of it in Paddington

I try and unclench these days.

I have this tendency. I'm worse when it's a program that is trying to be 'procedural' drama than fantasy. The latter I'll just go with. Seems very reasonable to me that Sam and Dean (Supernatural Is TV Heaven) can reach anywhere in the US in about a six hour drive whereas if CPR looks wrong in a serious medical drama I can't shut up... one of the many small deaths in my failed marriage on reflection. If there's a next time I'll try harder (although I doubt I'll ever be able to accept Gray's Anatomy in silence in any relationship)

Can you pause the telly?
I know it's a pain, but every time I am watching one of 'my programmes' and it is interrupted with "that would never really happen" "ooh, what was she in that we watched recently?" "that reminds me of...." I just pause the telly and put on my most interested face / voice in response. I then wait until the conversation has absolutely finished before I resume viewing. If they find Vera boring and unrealistic for two hours, they sure as hell won't want to drag it out to four hours and not have time to watch one of 'their programmes'
Worst thing is that DW always has to guess who has done it...

Have you ever watched those 'TV Mistake' programmes though? So annoying! Sucking the joy out of absolutely everything just to show that they are clever...

Dp and i do this but its more like "whats he out of" , "i know his face from somewhere."

I would never do it if someone else was watching though.

Oooh I like it if someone spots telephone qires/eyebrow slugs or contimuity error!

It's part of the shared experience of watching something together rather than on your own. J wouldn't like a running commentary but pointing out interesring bits/guessing the murderer is all fair game!

Aww shite, no, my oh doesn't do this but I think I might do it to him?! These thoughts certainly travel around in my head as I watch anyway. And actually now that I think about it, my dad does it and I used to get so enraged but clearly it's rubbed off on me!

Solution: Bluetooth adapter for your tv and nice pair of noise cancelling headphones.

Lifesaver

We had something I refer to as Graceland gate

My favourite album is Graceland, OH dislikes it that immensely, it's almost like he's offended by it

There was a documentary about its making and I had a snidey running commentary and even when I banished him there was excess noise from the kitchen

He got a bit if a telling off and was pointed out how rude and disrespectful of my choices

He has occasionally started a commentary, but I only have to glare at him now

My partner does this during my shows, but I do it back to him. I particularly like to do an impression of professor Brian Cox talking utter shit whilst he is watching said professor.

Introduce him to Twitter, OP. It's the 21st Century equivalent of shouting at the telly.

My DH does a version of this instead of picking holes he will go on and on about the actor and what the career has been like, what they have been in and it really infuriates me. I tell him point blank to just stop and save the verbal diarrhoea to the end. He only does it cos he is uninterested in the actual program. I’ve repaid the experience for him and provided running ‘amateur’ commentary on his football….he was NOT amused

We both do this....... I Could rant for hours about Hollyoaks

I do this, I live alone, but when my carer is here we sometimes watch TV. We watch a lot of cooking shows, I must ask him if this is why.

Clothes is one of my bugbears, patterns in material used to be woven or added by embroidery so a child in a Victorian workhouse is not going to be wearing a printed polycotton, and it certainly won't have a zip.

And science, bad science.

I recently watched 'Away' and they had an attempt at micro gravity so yay to that, but their water filtration system breaks down (surely you would take spare parts?) and Hilary Swank asks a character if they can 'purify urine'.

But you don't need to purify it to drink, OK it's not going to be pleasant but for centuries sailors had to do it on long voyages.

You see I can't help it.

No one asked for examples but I just give them anyway.

If I go to the cinema I have to wait until after the film and I almost burst because I'm clocking up the, 'that's wrong, because'

Solution: Bluetooth adapter for your tv and nice pair of noise cancelling headphones.

We are both BSL users, and although we don't use it much we both know the deafblind alphabet so turning the lights off is no good.

Eldest lad does this, I refuse to watch anything with him.

YES!
I watch my things alone for this reason

I use TV, more often than not, to destress and have something wash over me after a busy day. I like to immerse myself in whatever I'm watching. I might notice inaccucaries or points of interest or 'that actor was also in xx' but I don't need to say it out loud. When someone else is sat with me pointing stuff out I find it really invasive and irritating. They are breaking my immersion, my de-stress time.

Some people are just in the habit if saying what comes in to their head. You can think it, but you don't have to say it. So a plea from those of us who want to enjoy watching - unless everyone in the room enjoys having a discussion over the programme, during it - please keep your thoughts to yourself!