What things in tv dramas give away they are not real?

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Make up in full after operations

And for the first 2 or 3 seasons only white people were killed. It must be a really dangerous island to be on if you are white.

Definitely the jumping out of bed, putting on worn clothes and rushing straight to the office without showering or washing your face, never mind not putting anti perspirant on.

They should really warn people against going there on holiday. High likelihood of being either a murder victim, a murderer, or a murder suspect. Not a relaxing break at all.

And when the brakes fail, they just sit there uselessly pumping the foot brake. It never seems to occur to them to go down to first gear or try the handbrake.

When someone knows the person they were speaking to on their mobile has cut them off they keep saying hello hello or in those days of proper telephones they keep clicking the clicky bit in the hope the call will reinstate itself 📞☎️

They should really warn people against going there on holiday. High likelihood of being either a murder victim, a murderer, or a murder suspect. Not a relaxing break at all.

People should just avoid islands, especially picturesque ones - Sainte Marie, Jersey, Shetland....

OMG you are so right.

>>>starts thinking of a police drama that I could write to be set on Anglesey<<<< 😁 🕵 👮

Ancient universities are also problematic. Fortunately I can’t think of one that’s on an island.

About 25 years ago, French and Saunders did a piss take of Silent Witness, and called it Witless Silence.

It’s been Witless Silence for me ever since!

It would be distracting if the glass was grubby, though.

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Gym toned bodies in period dramas. Lady Whatshername never had biceps like that.

Being pushed down the stairs and knocked unconscious, then being doused in petrol but, when your violent husband goes upstairs for a minute in search of a match you can somehow manage to get up and hide.
I’m looking at you Sally Lindsay in Love Rat. 😀

And peasants with gleaming teeth. Plus lustrous locks for all ladies with ne’er a hint of grease let alone lice.

I thoroughly agree about the gym bodies; the only women with biceps would have been eg dairymaids milking and lugging heavy pails. Certainly not Regency-era ladies of means. I think I would have gone down a storm in those days with soft white arms (ok, flabby…).

This has always been a problem though - eg Dr Zhivago looks ridiculous to me with Julie Christie’s 60s eye make up and back-combed do. Nice music tho.

The plot

I visited a C18th National Trust place recently and was sighing over the semi clad milk pale flat chested large hipped ladies in the paintings and thinking I was attractive by their aesthetic 😂

@Needlenardlenoo - I was definitely born in the wrong era! Oh for the pale pear to make a comeback…