Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?

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I hate to break the illusion of shows like Law & Order, but the folks at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children do not sit in dark rooms that look like high tech command centers solving cases.

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Anonymous wrote:Scrubs was the most realistic show about medicine

I agree.

House was the most unrealistic…although we could use a Dr. House consult service!

House totally did a disservice to nurses.

I think ER was pretty spot on in the beginning.

Six Feet Under got morticians pretty well.

Dexter did serial killers right!

I always thought that everyone seemed too stressed and dramatic in ER. If everyone freaked out like that every time they had a trauma or a code come in, they would hardly be able to work.

I'm not sure what to make of your Dexter reference

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many elements of “Tár” reflect my life and my career has touched personalities like those shown in the movie.

Do you play in an orchestra? Very cool if so.
What about Mozart in the Jungle? How real is that show?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If there’s a member of my profession in a mystery they are the killer almost every single time.

You're a butler?! Please do an AMA!

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Anonymous wrote:If there’s a member of my profession in a mystery they are the killer almost every single time.

You're a butler?! Please do an AMA!

I think they're either some sort of money person (banker, stockbroker, CEO) or a corrupt judge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any show or movie depicting the CIA is always going to be unrealistic.

This reminds me that I recently read the book Red Widow, by Alma Katsu. I love “inside peeks” at other professions, and the blurb said she was a former analyst so I thought it might be particularly interesting. Turns out, there was a lot of talking to other people amidst office cubicles and asking various people for access to various files. Guess I got what I asked for? (It was still a decent book and I did appreciate the peek into that world, but, yeah, not the most exciting.)

[Anonymous]

Rita (Danish/Netflix) came somewhat close to teaching, but the schools there (even the "bad ones" ) are OH SO MUCH NICER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scrubs was the most realistic show about medicine

+1. I came on here to say the exact same thing.

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[Anonymous]

Better Call Saul, surprisingly accurate portrayal of the legal profession.

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Anonymous wrote:Not my career, but ‘Speechless’ hit some of my experiences with having a child with an IEP. In fact, it nailed it a few times.

I came here to say this. My kid has Down syndrome. They got so much right. Including the marriage dynamics and the dad’s part.

[Anonymous]

Studio/commercial photographer here and no. I think it would be too hard/boring to portray how we do what we do.

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Anonymous wrote:My lawyer friends tell me the judge intimidation in My Cousin Vinny was spot on for the first time a litigator enters the court room.

I’ve read multiple articles that mention that lawyers agree that My Cousin Vinny got closer than most to reality for criminal law.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a CPA, and The Accountant with Ben Affleck got it pretty right!
JK! I can’t remember if I even saw the whole thing. But I was excited when I first heard of the movie title!

I worked in counter-terrorist financing for years and semi related, though it was obviously dramatized.

[Anonymous]

Broadcast News. Including the sporadic crying jags.