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.

women chasing men & catching them. Bonus if the women us wearing heels.

Women managing to wrestle a man to the ground & keep him there.

Also changing actors to play the exact same character mid series. As if we won’t notice.

Exterior shots of streets on something set in the 1980s or before, and they have modern windows and doors on the houses, and fibre optic broadband on the telephone poles. I appreciate that it must be extremely difficult to find locations

Years ago I'm sure Jason Manford was in a drama (forget the name) and he drove to "Warrington" which was filmed on the coast road in Southport and it couldn't have been more obvious that he was driving alongside a modern sea wall. It was absolutely baffling that they chose to film there.

This-I’ve always thought Gavins office was in Billericay and that Mick also worked there.

Adding to the drinks thing…

They make a “fresh cuppa” and hand it straight to their guest, who cups the mug in both hands. None of the awkward trying to grasp the handle so you don’t burn your palms, or blowing on it so you don’t scald your gob.

And in soaps they order an orange juice at the bar and then two moments after receiving it stand up to go, leaving a full drink. Why would you order if you knew you didn’t have the time?

I’m looking at you, Corrie, for both of these 😂

Great thread!
I would also like to add;
When someone who is arrested- no matter the time or status of the person- they tell their spouse to call their lawyer. Who has a lawyer on retainer especially when they are innocent! I wouldn’t know where to get one at night.
People ordering drinks at a bar, taking one sip and then leaving. Who has the money to waste doing that?
When the police arrive, young children being asked to go into another and colour in. They never come back in to ask random question/winge/ask who the stranger is.

Oh, we used to laugh at The good Doctor and the lengths they would go to for their patients... The prom was a particular high point 😂

People getting fheir lawyer who is an expert in commercial, criminal and any other area of law ( think Marcus in Eastenders) Alternatively, the quiet useless solicitor who does nothing when the character is being interviewed or when evidence is being discussed but the eminently intelligent barrister thinks “let’s revisit the scene at the same time of day or same month of the year’

Improbable housing where those with mundane jobs have designer kitchens.

Mirder programmes where there are only 5 potential suspects and no one else could have committed the murder.

Zips on dresses in period costume dramas.

I thought that, too. Its never said, or even really implied, that they work in London 🤷🏻‍♀️

It was set in the 70s though.?

Sorry misunderstood your post - yes on TV they never get changed! But you can't cook dinner, walk the dog etc in a suit!

or from daylight to darkness within minutes!

@Suedoh CTW was early 70s. That design was available from about '76.

omg, I was going to post that. And they keep their OUTDOOR shoes on!

I’m banned from watching any medical drama because I complain about the mistakes too much. Particular bugbears are compressions being performed incorrectly during CPR, patients that wake up immediately following said CPR, monitors not matching the patient’s condition and that nobody questions the mortality rate in hospitals where patients are dying frequently during routine procedures!
Those posters that are mentioning eye colour, it is possible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child, if one of their parents had brown eyes
Edited to add that this is rare, but not impossible

When women are among a group who’ve been lost in the jungle/surviving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland for months. The men have all sprouted beards (to show the passage of time, of course)…but every single woman is walking around with perfectly groomed eyebrows and absolutely no leg, armpit, or bikini-line hair.

There was an episode of Beyond Paradise where it was meant to be Christmas but they made no effort to disguise the trees in full leaf in some of the scenes.

Also Gavin & Stacey: they would jump in the car and head down to Barry (or up to Essex) without a thought of the actual time that horrendous journey would take. No mention of traffic, even on the "Driving Home for Christmas" trip with Dave Coaches.
And how many people lived in No 1 Coronation Street back in the day? Ken, Deirdre, Uncle Albert, Tracey and probably other people too at various points, in a 2-up, 2-down terraced house, presumably with an upstairs bathroom as there was no room for one downstairs at the back. Plus, the door to the loos in the Rovers Return next door would have led smack into their back room (even after they showed there was a narrow alleyway between the two premises).

First episode of The Inbetweeners.

Jay gets served at the bar with a fake ID but isn't allowed to buy drinks for the other three lads as they haven't got ID.

Will argues they can be served certain drinks under 18, if accompanied by an adult and eating a meal. The bar man accepts this and Will convinces a bloke at the bar to sit with them as the 'adult' they need to have with them.

That's not necessary though. Jay has ID that says he's 18. They already are accompanied by an adult. They don't need to rope in the extra character.

As much as I loved The Inbetweeners, it's littered with stuff like this that doesn't make sense.

I always thought the improbably quick way they did the Barry-Essex drive was one of the long running jokes of the series. They were all excited about different service stations and never ran into traffic. Also would often see one another en route and wave from car to car!

or need the toilet, even in Matlock where she is pretty old.

@Shithotlawyer You're probably right - same as all Nessa's previous careers/men/life experiences.

A sailor eating a tin of spinach to give him super strength.

Spinach doesn't work that fast and anyway whilst it is highly nutritious, one should not eat exessive amounts of it as it's high oxalate content means someone prone to kidney stones or taking blood thinners should limit their consumption.

There was a Silent Witness a few years ago where a family lived in an incredibly beautiful, modern house and were shot in weird circumstances. You could tell that they'd tried really hard to shoot it without showing all the trees in full leaf but you could still hear them rustling loudly in the wind.