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.

And the sheer amount of bullets each gun seems to hold! Ammo will only ever run out at the most awkward point but they’ve usually shot at least three times the usual amount by then anyway.

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It would be pretty boring television though if we had to watch them sit in their car and download a new parking app, put their details in, then walk 20 minutes to their destination. I get enough of that in real life.

Been watching an action TV series and I thought how refreshing it would be for people to say hang on, today we’ve been in a gun fight/on the run/being tortured etc. can we get some food I’m starving or can I just pop to the loo before we go running after this next bit.

NRTWT so sorry if this has already been mentioned.
Hot drinks in takeaway cups - never hot as they are in real life, tipped and swung about and drunk immediately. In actual fact you can hardly hold the cups or drink from them when first poured.

Yes! This and TV shows where children are arriving at school in the morning, the bell goes, and the teachers are just pulling up in their cars and walk inside with the pupils. No. The teachers are usually there WAY before the pupils, getting everything set up for the day.

I haven't watched Corrie for a few years since it all went to shit, but it really used to amuse me how a couple would have a private conversation in the kitchen part of an open plan area like the Platt's house, while the subject of the conversation would be sitting a couple of metres away on the settee, oblivious to what was being said.

Generally speaking the anaesthetist will take the lead in most clinical emergencies. Resuscitation and care of critically ill patients is bread and butter stuff to us. Most surgeons will be far less experienced in things like management of cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis etc. They'd play a role of course, like everyone else in theatre, but would be unlikely to lead the team in a situation like that.
In terms of the day to day logistics of running a theatre list it is really the senior nurse for that theatre who is in charge.
So the tv surgeons who tell the anaesthetists when to give adrenaline or transfuse blood whilst simultaneously ordering equipment, sorting out the staffing rota, leading the fire evacuation before running up to ICU to advise the anaesthetist how to set the ventilator up are not realistic at all. In real life most of the time everyone just does the job they are actually trained for and a surgeon is no more likely to tell an anaesthetist how to do their job than we are to instruct them on what sutures to use.
Oh, and whilst some operations do take place with the lights dimmed, more often than not we have the lights on and there's conversation and not infrequently music playing. It's not like dramas where it seems that most surgery takes place in the dark, in complete silence with a sense of tension and impending doom! Obviously things can be tense at times, and things do sometimes go wrong but most surgery is actually pretty uneventful and straightforward and we don't lurch from crisis to crisis. I suppose "People come in, get along fine, do their jobs, nothing bad happens and then they go home again" wouldn't make very riveting tv though. Even "reality" hospital programmes are edited to make things look more dramatic.

I recently watched Castaways with Sheridan Smith. She is an excellent actress and I really rate her, but her blindingly white veneers were off-putting. Also all the women had perfect eyebrows, and no-one got sunburn, despite being stranded on a desert island with no shade.

Also dramas set around a school, where the teachers leave at home time along with the pupils. It even happens in recruitment to teaching adverts.

Yes! My dad was a primary school head and I've always found that hilarious.

Also, emergency room doctors with long swishy hair loose all over the place. I mean, ew.

Oh yes, I love that 'London scenic drive' where, no matter where they start or end up, their route takes them past the Houses of Parliament and over Tower Bridge.
In Paddington they do it but then make a joke about it

American Werewolf in London, they’re in Yorkshire so why would he end up in hospital in London? Even if he needed to go to a bigger hospital than the local district general, they bypassed Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Stoke and Nottingham to take him to London!

Mentioned by pps: perfect teeth in period dramas, regardless of the wealth or poverty of the characters in question. Drives me mad.

Obviously but the thread is about things that happen on TV that don’t reflect real life.

Your point?

I’m such a pendant about things being accurate. So was glad to see that the priest in the last episode of call the midwife knew how to handle the thurible and the aspergillium, and the vestments were correct as they used a real priest!

Biggest bugbear is that you can’t shock Asystole!

Should they put brown stain on their teeth or artificial, misshapen teeth over their perfect teeth ? It is annoying, especially in westerns!

But that’s the case irl! Also, nurses with hair up but long fronds dangling down their face. I think it looks very unprofessional and unhygienic.

I think in around the 16th century 'bad' teeth were a good thing because they showed you could afford to buy and eat sugary foods, which were very expensive then.

Or facial hair!

The school ones have all been mentioned.

Ive been annoyed by Sophie's lovely soft clean hands in the recent series of Bridgerton even though she is a maid! My hands are horrible at the moment due to frequent handwashing.

Anything to do with baby safety. All newborns are in massive cots with hats on. Hats in the car seat. Tiny babies left to sleep on their own in a modern show. If anyone wears a sling, it's too low and loose or some tiny baby will be forward facing, their poor little head bobbing about.

Do you really want to see the placenta?

There were never any cleaners seen on the Starship Enterprise. Even as a child this used to puzzle me.