No one is pretending a rifle isnt a 1000% better than a handgun @ 100 yards.
But with a .357 or a .45 you can hit a Silhouette target easily at 100yds.
One that just came up in Timeless. When you get shot the important thing is to dig out the bullet. If some untrained guy with makeshift equipment can dig it out then you will be fine. If not, death.
I believe they train the drivers of the President’s limo in said manuever-an expert driver can pull it off pretty easily.
Being able to eat as much as you want and drink as much alcohol as you want and still be skinny and sober.
On an episode of Blossom, Tony, who had been clean and sober for two years after having a drug problem, drank a bottle of vodka. Next day, he was fine.
Back in black powder days, that was more important, as often bits of the wad, etc would enter the wound, causing infections. But in this case it was a modern smokeless power pistol, firing copper jacket slugs, and those can be left in for a while, until you get to a real surgeon. Sometimes they just leave them in anyway.
The pilot episode of the new series “Timeless” had the stubbly main male character going back to the 1930s, where nobody commented on how he looked like a bum.
Forensics reports such as toxicology and DNA checks come through in a couple of hours at most, instead of the far more usual several weeks, or if its something out of the ordinary it can take a few months.
Husbands who are almost completely incompetent at almost everything and often are surprisingly stupid, and yet hold down a job that can pay for a large house, several family cars, a granny flat, a log cabin. The only one I respect is Homer Simpson.
The detective who is always out of favour with his police chief, despite the fact that he solves the most dangerous and difficult crimes and is completely incorruptible and too honest for his own good.
Nightclubs where the main protagonists can talk to each other easily whilst the band is playing.
Women who can pretty much kick any man around, despite the fact they are obviously not physically built for it, sorry ladies, but the vast majority of women simply cannot realistically take on the sorts of thugs they seem to be mixing it with in the tv shows.
Bosses who dismiss workers for perfectly valid reasons, you never see them in tv shows,
Unless it’s “Barney Miller”, which is from a period when there was no absolute certainty of any NYC employees getting paid.
Absolutely; I’ve shot Metallic Silhouette competitions many times and it’s absolutely doable to hit the target with a mid/large bore centrefire handgun at 100 yards.
It takes a little bit (definitely not an inordinate amount) of practice, but it’s not some weird “Only in TV/Movies” trope.
I challenge anyone to accurately hit a target at 100 yards with a pistol while under fire.
a sweet little old lady can stumble on to a murder and solve it in 3 days to by just noticing little things and remembering a conversation here and there and having the police force give her exclusive access to evidence
Yes!
And all detectives have romantically tortured personal lives and will, at some point, be taken hostage by a deranged killer.
Btw: if I turn off the DSC in my car I can peel out.
Yes … and then there are little old ladies who seem to be followed by murders wherever they go, but are never suspected of being serial killers.
Flashbacks of happy times involve a woman in a summer dress and a walk on a otherwise deserted beach.
By putting on a uniform and speaking English with a faux European accent, you can bluff your way into any top-secret enemy installation and steal something/sabotage something/kill someone. The bad guys will be so monumentally stupid you’ll then be able to get away, with everything having gone as slick as a whistle.
Or, if one is any proper species of female detective on an SVU, flashbacks of traumatic rape.
Small villages in rural England and Maine have murder rates 10x that of Camden, NJ. Skeery!
Even the black guy, in Eastern Europe, in the 1960s.
Equal Opportunity for saboteurs! 
If you fall into any category like “Troubled Teen,” “Betrayed Woman,” or “Recidivist Who Insists He’s Been Set Up On This One,” you can expect to find a top-flight famous attorney to defend you, even though his chances of ever being paid for his services are miniscule to nonexistent.