Things you notice aren't right on TV shows

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I'm just starting to watch the TV drama The Lady. After the police are in the flat it switched to a scene with Charles and Diana's wedding accompanied by I Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode - that hadn't been released.

Detective type dramas (death in paradise I’m looking at you!) where they line up the suspects, all together, usually seated and go through all their evidence before arresting the person they’ve deduced is the murderer. After watching many police procedural programmes I’m fairly certain this doesn’t happen irl!

The empty coffee cups and suitcases - glad it’s not just me

The number of really bad wigs. Why?! Is it a plot essential that Wendy from down the road looks like Michael Fabricant?!

Police Officers in dramas living in gorgeous and expensive London flats and house whilst being a DC or DS or something equally well outside the income bracket for a property of that sort.

Legal dramas - the incorrect text books, robes etc in Courts. It’s not rocket science!

People being able to circumvent airport security to say goodbye or don’t go or similar!

And they just swallow them without a drink.

couples who, after a night of rampant sexual activity, get out of bed, dress in the same clothes as the previous night and go into work eww 😷

Squelch, squelch

Always being able to park outside the Big Important Building

But more recently and specifically, I have been watching S2 of Hijack and in one scene someone delivers some flowers and asks the recipient, "oh aren't they lovely, is it your birthday? Or valentines?"

What do you mean is it valentines? You are delivering the fecking flowers, you'd know if it was valentines.

It was clearly a bit of lazy writing that slipped through but if really annoyed me.

Practically anything to do with horses….

I've known patients who do this . They've taken so many tablets for such a long time that they don't need water any more.

I can manage a small tablet without water.

Characters have babies and then have loads of time without a baby strapped to them, on their knee, in their pushchair, just always with them like babies are. Rachel in Friends = prime example. You saw the baby about once every 6 months!

Forgive me, I thought it was the common usage in the UK we were talking about.

Anyone watching cowboy films 60 years ago might have heard or indeed used 'dude', but not in the way we do now. Since I was around 60 years ago, I can confirm that it really wasn't used in those days.

I've remembered something else. Stationery. Usually on shelves in the background of offices, police stations etc. Many lever arch files with obviously nothing in them, and very often all colour co-ordinated and neatly labelled. No ordinary office has a shelf of folders that new and tidy.

Death in Paradise takes an awful lot of suspension of disbelief!

There are no other police officers on the island, the team are available at any time of the day or night to start investigating a suspicious murder and the beach hut where the main character lives doesn’t seem to have any locks on the doors but never gets burgled, to name a few.

There's an episode of McDonald & Dodds where a murder takes place on the top deck of a bus and it takes them the entire episode to solve. At no point does anyone say 'doesn't the top deck of a bus usually have a CCTV camera?'.

Yes it does! My husband just said it’s a drama 🤣 but it’s just something that annoys me about it!

The Death in Paradise Police station is alwaus left unlocked with nobody manning it when all officers are attending the crime scene.

Why in American dramas, they live in enormous houses but no one ever has a spare room. They always get a blanket and the sofa

Everything to do with how journalists interact with the courts. You are very restricted on what you can say and you certainly can’t speculate on the likely outcome outside the court - that’ll get you up before the beak yourself…

So ... the unlikely nature of this hospital allocation was so implausible that it spoilt the film for you?

The film about werewolves and the living dead?

I came on to say this. They rarely even bother to get them to hold the instrument properly, let alone do any movements accurately.

And as for characters pretending to conduct...ugh

The driver throwing a mobile phone out of a moving car window (theirs or the passengers). I call bullshit.

Unless it's Niles playing the piano on Frasier. David Hyde Pierce studied classical piano at Yale. There are few others I can't think of off the top of my head, but I enjoy watching actors who know how to play the instrument their character is playing.

It's all a bit Hercule Poirot isn't it?

Jamie Foxx is another one. He has played piano since childhood and attended university on a piano scholarship. He did his own playing in the movie Ray.

Yes, the rest of it was absolutely realistic and believable 😂

Hugh Laurie! He's an excellent musician.