Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 17:26     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
I could not watch the Noah Centineo show bcs how unrealistic it is. I think there’s a difference between generally suspending disbelief and having to repeatedly and deeply suspend it?
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:56     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Alaska Daily is probably the closest TV show. Spotlight and All The President's Men did a pretty good job.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:52     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Anonymous wrote:does Office Space count?


It's amazing how applicable it still is in a lot of ways.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:51     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Alaska Daily got some things right about journalists. Not Dead Yet not so much, but I still enjoy it.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:44     Subject: Re:Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
I thought Better Call Saul had a pretty realistic portrayal of law firm life/politics. I don't know if the portrayal of being a narco lawyer was realistic bc I am not a narco lawyer
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:42     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Many elements of “Tár” reflect my life and my career has touched personalities like those shown in the movie.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:37     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was often annoyed at the misrepresentation of teaching in Abbott Elementary.

I thought My So Called Life gave an accurate portrayal of life in a school.


Somewhat. Very unlikely a student would live with a teacher for more than one night.

I led a 'book club' of season 4 of The Wire for my teacher colleagues. They were floored at how accurate it was. I was pretty new to the profession at the time. A number of people in the group had been teaching for over a decade.


Started season 4 and couldn’t finish because it hit way too close to home as a special ed teacher for students with behavioral issues
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:31     Subject: Re:Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
I am a legal secretary. Used to be a receptionist. Been doing this for 26 years and NEVER have I gotten to yell "You can't go in there!"

But I have gotten to enter a conference room, quietly walk over to one guy in a suit and either hand him documents or whisper to him and have him follow me out.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:28     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
I'm a research university professor. Nope. Only if Killing Eve was an allegory about departmental politics.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:26     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was often annoyed at the misrepresentation of teaching in Abbott Elementary.

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as I teacher, I concur. Who has all that time to hang out in the lounge?


Ok but, some of those personalities are spot on!!
-Veteran elementary teacher


And all of the district and parental and principal bullshit they have to put up with. I relate to all of that on a deep, deep level.

+1 the lounge isn't realistic but the feelings of affection and annoyance are!
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:22     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was often annoyed at the misrepresentation of teaching in Abbott Elementary.

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as I teacher, I concur. Who has all that time to hang out in the lounge?


Ok but, some of those personalities are spot on!!
-Veteran elementary teacher


And all of the district and parental and principal bullshit they have to put up with. I relate to all of that on a deep, deep level.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:17     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was often annoyed at the misrepresentation of teaching in Abbott Elementary.

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as I teacher, I concur. Who has all that time to hang out in the lounge?


Ok but, some of those personalities are spot on!!
-Veteran elementary teacher
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:07     Subject: Re:Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
If there’s a member of my profession in a mystery they are the killer almost every single time.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 16:04     Subject: Re:Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
I am still waiting on the TV show or movie about legislative drafters. Would probably need some murders to make it watchable.
Anonymous
Post 04/26/2023 15:59     Subject: Has any TV show or movie ever portrayed your career accurately?
Anonymous wrote:I was often annoyed at the misrepresentation of teaching in Abbott Elementary.

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as I teacher, I concur. Who has all that time to hang out in the lounge?