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 sit on chairs/sofas with their feet up/tucked under them, with shoes on. Ugh. No.

And the women always lie on their back to give birth even if they are on their own.

And if their clothes get all ragged and torn, the women always manage to keep their bra intact.

Also, women in period dramas always have their eyebrows shaped in the way that was fashionable at the time it was made.

Obviously very low production values and hammy acting.

In Casualty this week they were discussing the possibility of staff being made redundant and 2 staff ( most senior doctor and a senior nurse) then nominated themselves. This wouldn't happen in real life, there would be a consultation and a plan around which grades of staff would be at risk. Once the plan is agreed staff in the at risk roles would apply for a job.

It pains me that I remember this but I think the Australian doc played Billy Kennedy who didn’t have a twin. Danni’s twin was Lance and I think they were Cheryl’s kids.

Doesn’t explain the birthdays though 🤣🤣

Danni's twin was Brett Stark, the guy with glasses

Lance's sister was Anne, I don't think they were twins. Anne was Billy's girlfriend (eventually his wife).

Sorry, completely off thread! 😂

You ‘wrote ‘And your point is?’ Which was also unnecessary but I gave you an answer because you clearly didn’t understand. It didn’t come across as a ‘lighthearted quip’ and there was more than an element of mansplaining in your original comment.

I asked 'your point?' because I didn't understand why you responded that way.

If you want to interpret my comment as 'mansplaining', I think that really is a 'you' issue, as that's not where I was coming from at all.

Gossip Girl is awful for this!

Mental health.

People with serious MH issues get put in psychiatric wards with no wait time and get loads of support. Such bullshit.

This absolutely is possible- both my parents have blue eyes and my sibling has brown (and no, they don’t need to do a DNA test!)

It’s definitely rare and very unlikely but absolutely possible. It’s not as simple as what they teach in biology at school and there only being one gene responsible for it.

Or they get a bottle of pills that they swallow like smarties whenever they feel a bit stressed.

Oh tell me how he is abusive? I just thought he was as effed up as she was?

Oh of course! I forgot Brett 🤣

As a keen gardener seeing plants, trees and flowers out of sync with the season that is being represented or out of sync with continuity.

Trees are in leaf in one shot then bare in the next shot that is meant to be 5 minutes later in the story.

Women who wear high heels in the house. Who does that?

People whose phone calls get answered immediately. This happened a lot in Inspector Montalbano.

One that annoys me is people playing a musical instrument when it’s very obvious that what they’re pretending to do does not match up in any way to whatever music is being played over the top.

I know what you mean but your example made me laugh sorry. "Dude" is pretty much the perfect example of a word that everyone thinks is modern, but has actually been around for a good 150 years.

It's meaning has changed a bit over the years, but it's been in common use since the 1870s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude

Yes how did that happen??

If it's a US show, being admitted to a psych ward right away isn't all that unusual here. There are legal mechanisms for involuntary committal for serious cases in most states and in most states there are county and state facilities plus 'for profit' places. The loads of support can be there for you after you leave too, if you have either good insurance or lots of money.

It happens on Eastenders and Corrie too though which is so unrealistic these days

No I’m talking British shows, I very very rarely watch US shows.

Yes, but that Wikipedia page is all about it's American usage. It was much less common, if not practically unheard of, in the UK until relatively recently.

When I was young (in the 1960's/70's) you heard it used in American cowboy films. I suspect it only really started being used a lot in the UK when Wayne's World came out.

Yes, and it was used in the context of ‘dude ranches’. But New York dandies were not saying ‘Yo, dude’ to one another in the 1870s.

I'm not disputing that, but we weren't talking about the UK neccessarily. Given how much American media we watch ( including those cowboy films), it wouldn't be particularly out of place to hear a dude in something historical. The USA has history too (although most of them only seem to care about the bits after Europeans turned up!)