Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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Maybe this got mentioned earlier and I didn't see it, but when something purports to be in a historical setting and they get VERY basic details wrong. I am not saying historically set dramas have to be perfectly historical and I'm all for things like Hamilton that are basically riffs on history, or Bridgerton which is (I think) supposed to be a kind of fantay remagining. Do what you want then! Go crazy!

But when I see what is clearly meant to be seriously reflecting a real period, NOT a riff or reimagining or comic take, and they clearly screw up the simplest basics, it's crazy. I ran across Sanditon on PBS yesterday. I dumped that show early for its overall stupidity, but catching a newer episode yesterday, yep, they still have the young women with hair flowing loose and wild in public, and going around -- to a military emcampment -- completely unchaperoned. Both are touches which would never happen in that particular place, time and social setting. It takes me out of the story entirely, it's so basic.

I watched one episode of snowfall and couldn’t do another. Escalades parked on the street in the 80s. iPhones. I was just irritated

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Anonymous wrote:A couple waking up together, talking, kissing, and having sex.
The morning breath, ughhh.

I love morning sex. You just don’t do it facing each other.

Gay male couples have a lot of perks

Uh, you do know that straight couples can do it from behind, and that gay male couple can do it face to face, right?

There’s a scene on Power (the one with Mary) and the two gay guys were face to face. I’m sorry the math wasn’t mathing.

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Anonymous wrote:Shows where teachers wear nice clothing. Maybe I work in a dump of a school but nobody except the head honchos from district headquarters wear nice clothing in a school.

Or shows where teachers just sit around in faculty lounges all day, like in Abbott Elementary. Nobody at our school ever has time to go to the lounge so it sits empty all year.

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Anonymous wrote:A couple waking up together, talking, kissing, and having sex.
The morning breath, ughhh.

I love morning sex. You just don’t do it facing each other.

Gay male couples have a lot of perks

Uh, you do know that straight couples can do it from behind, and that gay male couple can do it face to face, right?

There’s a scene on Power (the one with Mary) and the two gay guys were face to face. I’m sorry the math wasn’t mathing.

Watch Kiss of the Spider Woman. William Hurt will walk you through it.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate when people have a tragedy, a long day at a funeral and then that weird tv grief sex. Whenever I've had a significant loss, my face is swollen, I'm exhausted and I have a headache. i have no desire to 'feel alive'. I want to sleep.

My father died last year and I had grief sex. It’s a real thing, the feeling of wanting someone physically close to you, feeling the heart beat and life in them.

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Anonymous wrote:Lately, several shows/ movies have one black parent and one white parent with a mixed kid. Sure that happens in the real world, but it seems so forced in shows. Like have a black family or white or whatever. It seems like a way to increase audiences.

Or when a show has a mixed black kid portrayed by a non-mixed/fully black looking kid.

Eh. This is more than balanced out by mixed actors playing fully black characters.

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Anonymous wrote:The people from Friends always being able to get those prime seats in the coffee shop.

And the gigantic apartments

Only Monica and Rachel had a gigantic apartment - Joey and Chandler's was pretty normal looking. And Monica was supposed to have inherited it from her grandmother - it was rent controlled. I don't find that SO crazy unrealistic - maybe the part that is is that the building would have apartments across the hall from each other where one is so big and the other is so small.

And back in the 90s you could get a good seat at a coffee shop and park yourself there all day! I used to do it all the time!!

This. Their apartments did not look like they were in the same building. I never understood the complaints about Monica's apartment. It was very clear she was using her grandmother's rent controlled apartment. It was a plot point in a couple early episodes.

It's not unrealistic re: size differences. Most older buildings in NYC have a mix of apartments sizes; I live in an original two-floor duplex and the line across the hall from me is a studio. Also, in pre-war buildings, some spaces were carved up, there were maid quarters turned into apartments, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:A very DC example - I like shows like Criminal Minds, etc, and if DH is around while I'm watching and there's a scene in a SCIF he always goes "that's not what a SCIF looks like!" I get that they want to make it look cooler than it really is in real life

I love this post above because it's the most DC thing that ever DC'd!

My DH loves to play "spot the real DC" (or Arlington etc.). He was just watching some spy series and going: "OK, that's really DC...that's good...definitely DC...oh no way, that bridge is not anywhere around here but it looks pretty plausible...." He doesn't really natter through the scenes but will sometimes go back and rewatch a scene to do his "is that real?" thing.

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Anonymous wrote:The timeline to Dirty Dancing always boggled my mind. I get that Dr. Houseman could potentially set his own hours, but seriously, these people live at Kellermans all summer? Is that how Borscht Belt resorts operated back then??

That is some sweet PTO Jewish, White America received.

Weird fixation. You believe that Jewish people, who to you are ultra white, somehow conspired to get more PTO than everyone else?

The first part of your post was about how hard it is to suspend disbelief though you know it is fiction. The second part has to both hint at shadowy Jewish conspiracy and ignore Jewish history to frame Jews as white. To what end, my friend who felt this burning need to post but won't just come out and say it?

Lighten up Francis. I knew that would set somebody off. These resorts catered to this specific demographic.

Did everyone's failure to suspend disbelief trigger you as well?

I think the thing is that all of a certain demographic (white-collar, professional, MC/UMC) of white America received this perk, so to specifically call out one group within it is a bit odd.

Yes, my father was a doctor in private practice around the same time period as the film, and often took off six weeks to two months in the summer. Also, I think sometimes families would stay at a summer place and the dad/husband came up on weekends.That was the plot of the Seven Year Itch.

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The science is usually all around horrific. Not even remotely possible

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Anonymous wrote:The timeline to Dirty Dancing always boggled my mind. I get that Dr. Houseman could potentially set his own hours, but seriously, these people live at Kellermans all summer? Is that how Borscht Belt resorts operated back then??

That is some sweet PTO Jewish, White America received.

Weird fixation. You believe that Jewish people, who to you are ultra white, somehow conspired to get more PTO than everyone else?

The first part of your post was about how hard it is to suspend disbelief though you know it is fiction. The second part has to both hint at shadowy Jewish conspiracy and ignore Jewish history to frame Jews as white. To what end, my friend who felt this burning need to post but won't just come out and say it?

Lighten up Francis. I knew that would set somebody off. These resorts catered to this specific demographic.

Did everyone's failure to suspend disbelief trigger you as well?

I think the thing is that all of a certain demographic (white-collar, professional, MC/UMC) of white America received this perk, so to specifically call out one group within it is a bit odd.

Yes, my father was a doctor in private practice around the same time period as the film, and often took off six weeks to two months in the summer. Also, I think sometimes families would stay at a summer place and the dad/husband came up on weekends.That was the plot of the Seven Year Itch.

Borscht Belt resorts were not that far from NYC, and even closer to the Northern suburbs. Kerhonkson is about 90 minutes from the city. The bus from Monticello takes 2 hrs to get to 42nd street, driving may be even faster. If one parent or grandparents stay upstate, it's totally possible to leave Monday morning, come back Tuesday night, leave Wednesday morning, come back Friday afternoon(I did this circa 2000). People did not work crazy hours in the 1960s.

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Arlington Road is an example of this considering the majority was filmed in a suburb of Houston.

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Anonymous wrote:The size of the apartments

Perfect example are the apartments in Friends. No way they could afford anything that nice.

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Anonymous wrote:Lately, several shows/ movies have one black parent and one white parent with a mixed kid. Sure that happens in the real world, but it seems so forced in shows. Like have a black family or white or whatever. It seems like a way to increase audiences.

Or when a show has a mixed black kid portrayed by a non-mixed/fully black looking kid.

Eh. This is more than balanced out by mixed actors playing fully black characters.

Mixed race people come in all kinds of appearances. S

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I'm guessing this has already been said but I find it annoying when, in a group setting, Character 1 says to Character 2, "can I have a word with you?" and the two walk just a few steps away from the group to discuss their issue "privately."