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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.

Anonymous wrote:The size of the apartments

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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?

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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.