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

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Make up in full after operations

Men cheating on their wives, get up and dressed straight after without a shower then go home to said wife. They snuggle up in bed or whatever and she seems to notice that he smells of having sex!

Family solicitor reading out the will to family (and old retainer)

Cooking a meal for other people it was to burn to a cinder.

Everything is done and dusted in 2 hours.

When the police/FBI/MI5 are searching for a suspect and have a CCTV image of him/ her which is matched against a database and lots of faces flash up in quick succession often over a grid mapping the face from the CCTV before it hits a 100% match. That would take so much more processing power for a start. I wonder if now more and more people are getting used to AI image searches this will die out. Same as we used to see a series of names or address flashed on screen until a pop up message with match found is no longer used.

Zooming in to crisp CCTV images with no blurring or pixelation and "lightening the image" which then gives a total clear image of the man that's definitely the guy they are looking for. Ok fact so good they can feed it into the facial recognition face flashcard software to find out who he is (and they always have a really handy mini bio next to a mug shot)

So glad the gavel in a British Court room was mentioned. Jimmy McGovern often writes police or court scenes that bear absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Omg this drives me mad! Why don’t they just put water in them. They look so obviously empty!!!! 😂

That’s the cups not the suitcases!! 😂

Women wearing a bra during sex

Every sex scene, especially the new trend where everyone suddenly "does it from behind". Why you only see the woman's breasts and buttocks. Clearly written by a man, for a man. Even in shows targeted for women. Go figure.

When a person visits someone else’s house says one thing and immediately leaves. Who could be arsed to get dressed, leave the house, drive/walk/bus to someone else’s house for a short conversation?

Non smoking actors taking a reluctant drag on a cigarette, holding the smoke on their mouth for a second then expelling it out of the side of their mouth. Smoking is meant to suggest a cool character, so fake smoking looks silly

And when the person decides she really loves the job and isn't going to leave after all, there is no need to reapply for the post or even have a conversation with HR.

This is so true! 'I Quit!' or 'You're Fired!' and characters just walk out.

Thats easy, Ronan Atkinson was on hand to district the security staff so you can leap the barriers before being chased through the airport.

People in minimum wage or low paying jobs (usually on the same street they live in) yet miraculously manage to afford to eat breakfast at the cafe, lunch in the pub and then out drinking in the evening too.
And no sign of the children- the parents always seem to be out without them.

Or against a wall. Ouch.

Vera always spotting a torn piece of fabric, something in victims fist, a label on an old piece of clothing that the whole forensics team have missed, every single episode 😁

Being chased down the street by a gang of crazy armed villains and just by chance knowing which way to run. Being able to escape said crazy armed villains by opening an unlocked door which leads through a kitchen then up some stairs which lead to a rooftop and being able somehow to jump from rooftop to rooftop, scale down a 70 foot building by clinging onto the window ledges and tiptoeing along teeny tiny window sills. Then miraculously jumping from said building and surviving. Dusting oneself down and walking unscathed into a shopping mall and mingling unnoticed amongst the clean, immaculately dressed shoppers. Somehow the villains arrive in the same shopping mall but either fail to notice their victim or decide not to attack their victim as well, they are in a shopping mall, and obviously hardened criminals paid to kill someone draw the line at that.

Computer wiz kids after frantically bashing the keyboard for all of 5 seconds being able to guess someone’s password and break into someone’s computer. Then being able to hack into anything on the computer, even those of top companies when everyone knows, it’s hard enough remembering your own passwords.

Make up that stays on throughout anything, even if the wearer has been kidnapped and held hostage for several days.
Going into a pub and asking for ‘a pint’. Of what?!
Police looking for evidence at a crime scene, usually an abandoned building after a body has been discovered, in the dark. Bring some bloody lights in, or maybe try the light switch.
As a nurse, I can’t watch medical dramas because there are too many mistakes and I find them distracting

This! Would you really carry on chopping vegetables (always carrots or peppers) while the police interview you at home?

You want to see that in a tv drama?

And no access to a toilet.

Big , immaculate and pristine modern houses lived in by ordinary people with mediocre jobs , how do they manage that ?

When they are trying to stop the person they have just realised they are actually in love with catching a flight it's always at the gate, how do they get through security without a plane ticket/passport/boarding pass???

Or the converse, when the love of your life is about to walk out of your life forever, the plane will wait as long as you like while you have your extended goodbye scene. (Here's looking at you, Rick and Ilsa.)

Sometimes loads of drinking - come home from work and wine drunk as if every couple in the UK open a whole bottle of wine every single night (may be they do and I just do not know!), I live in a very mixed area of London but even here we tend to have Indians marrying Indians etc but the cop shows I watch tend to have more mixed marriages than perhaps is the reality ( I can see why they would do that however to encourage integration) and the cop shows set in places like my native rurual northumberland full of people of African origin (Vera etc) does go a bit far to test credulity given Northumberland is about 98% white.

Also people have such clean clothes on TV yet in my real life I might be covered in bits of garden waste or have a tear in clothes - it is a s kind of perfection on TV as if clothes have just come out of their packets rather than been worn for 10 years.

However the UK has a very successful TV and film industry so it must be doing a lot of things right.

Then the person who is being interviewed goes back to what they were doing, painting, mending a car whatever.

"We are here to talk about the murder of your wife"

Carries on painting while half listening.

Laryngoscopes in the wrong hand.

ECGs that are wrong. You have just said VT when it is actually normal sinus rhythm.

Dr's talking to patients with one end of a stethoscope on the patient's chest and the other in their ears.

Immaculate house but no one does any housework or ironing.

In soaps all your neighbours attend your wedding but not your relatives.

All children in soaps live in their bedrooms for about 10 years.