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

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Make up in full after operations

In an action movie, the baddies arrange an ambush for their hitmen to take out the cops.

They shoot out all their bullets and have to reload. All the hitmen are shot dead, and one cop is shot in the leg.

I don't know about foreign hitman school, they don't seem to teach the task too well.

This sounds like an amazing scene. I really need to see it 😂

Yes, or they're falling down drunk but a couple of cups of coffee sets them right.

Like having a shower someone walks in yet person in the shower is not wet.
Or standing in the rain its pouring down and yet hair is dry.

Or the character has been soaked in the rain or fallen or jumped in a river and their clothes are miraculously bone dry two minutes later.

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@TimeFliesin2046 there you go.

Storylines that fizzle without reason. Both Corrie and Emmerdale ran with similar storylines at the same time Belle (E)and Chesney(C) both identified as hugely gifted, and scholarships talked about to local private schools. Both didn't go, but no mention of their exceptional talents after.

People in Christmas films wearing thick hats, coats and gloves when it’s obviously 20 degrees. I shovelled snow when it was -15 in less than that.

Yes but you have to remember a health centre once mysteriously appeared in Corrie, when a GP moved to the area and Gail needed a new job as a receptionist. Then it all went away again.

Seeing the interior of one type of train carriage, and then watching the people get out of a completely different type of carriage. Dh is a railwayman and always notices this.

Operating theatre gowns that are not creased from being packed and sterilised - I was a theatre nurse, so this is the one I always notice.

No one ever needs to get up and go to the loo and no one ever gets their sleeve caught on a door handle.

I'm in the UK and have never known someone personally who has this.

Whilst I am of course aware that they exist I would expect British dramas to reflect the reality I see around me.

I once watched something filmed in a town I know quite well. The characters turned a corner at one end of the street, then reappeared at the other end, with no break in dialogue.

There are so many murders for the tiny Sainte-Marie police force to deal with that they don't even express surprise at whatever bizarre case comes up next... sigh, another murder, better get back to work.

Not anymore, I've noticed a distinct trend of TV shows showing female characters sitting on the toilet!

Nobody ever wonders why Jessica Fletcher, Father Brown, Vera, Sister Boniface etc are always present for a murder..they are the common denominator in the murders. Only the cartoon style inspector in father brown ever mutters about him. 😆

Ans why is anyone stupid enough to commit a murder in their vicinity knowing their reputation for solving murders? If Jessica fletcher rocks u. Put your murderous plans on the back burner until she’s jetted back off to see another nephew.

Yes, true, staring pensively into the distance, knickers round ankles.

Yes of course. I think the rest of us wouldn’t understand why on earth there was laundry everywhere and who the hell would have a washing machine in the kitchen. 🤣

The Royle Family was excellent in terms of their hints of British life. My mother almost had a fit when she saw the grease on the wall behind Barbara's cooker.

Big events that on Mumsnet trigger multiple threads can apparently on TV be arranged in an instant and everyone is miraculously free to attend them.
An engagement party? Why not tomorrow night in the Rovers/Queen Vic/Woolpack!

Over umpteen series of NCIS, poor Gibbs never got to have an actual coffee, just carried empty cups around. No wonder he was so grumpy.

My bugbear is when people with hair covering their ears answer the phone and put the receiver to their ear over their hair instead of moving their hair out of the way. I see it so often I wonder if that's what most people do IRL and it's me that's odd.

I watched Pascali's Island and they do the same but with a different island!

An excellent point! 🐸

Domestic Facilities was watching some crappy Hallmark film

Woman off to visit her family in upstate New York leaves from a snow covered station and cut to a 444 heading for Waterloo

Ditto train leaves Chicago and then crosses the Ribblehead Viaduct in Yorkshire before morphing briefly into a 225