True. I’ve known and lived with quite a few myself.
But I’ve worked with lots of LEOs (in the US) and they go out of their way to get clean and stay clean, especially the investigators. I can’t imagine them working a murder for 12 hours, going home to drink and have sex, and then bouncing up to pull on the same clothes for another 12 hour day.
“Jeans are to be considered clean until proven dirty.”
Or so a college acquaintance one said.
The suspect in a case takes a plea or is found not guilty and the cop involved doesn’t care because it’s just a job and he doesn’t take things personally.
Cases going completely cold and are left without resolution forever.
Most people are average in looks.
In relation to people in TV/Movies always speaking perfectly, never ‘umming’ or ‘aaahing’, never stuttering etc - they are also never clumsy or awkward.
They never drop things, bump into the couch, do the ‘I go left, you go left, I go right, you go right’ dance in the street, or spill things.
If they DO make a clumsy mistaake - ie dropping something, it will be pertinent to the plot (eg - the cop bends down to pick up his keys and sees under the couch…).
And half of them are well below average.
I often see how I’d improve a scene if I were directing, but maybe I should flip that around sometimes (like this thread!) and think like a BAD director.
In the case of “Texting as Dialog”, I’d have someone read the texts… including their own:
When 24 was popular folks would ask the creators why nobody seemed to use the bathroom. Their answer was, “They go the same time you do – during the commercial breaks.”
Very clever. ha ha.
When I’m watching TV I sure don’t go to the bathroom during commercial breaks. Commercial breaks are met with 
[fast forward]. I go whenever I want … right after pushing 
[pause].
The cast might be able to pee while the cameras are paused, but the characters are stuck there standing in odd poses with rigid expressions until I return. Sucks to be them. 
So did Jessica Lange in the 1995 film Rob Roy, but some people might not have realized, because she didn’t hike up her skirt or anything – she just walked out a nit into the nearby lake and squatted. The only time I can recall a woman peeing first thing in the morning in a movie.
A simple, common, and natural thing in its day, but a little les obvious today
I think an exception is The Bear. The dialogue patterns seem more natural. Maybe not the actual dialogue.
Sherlock attempted to incorporate texting into the show to varying degrees of effectiveness depending on the episode.
Reminds me of a great little bit of dialog from the West Wing:
LEO: Sam, go home, would you?
SAM: No, I’m just going to change my shirt.
LEO: You look bad. You’re tired, you slept in the office. It’s Friday - go home.
SAM: Why?
LEO: 'Cause I think you’re putting too much faith in the magical powers of a new
shirt.
(1) Taking your Vitamin D tablets at breakfast.
(2) At lunch, stare at the bottle of Vitamin D tablets and think, “FFS, did I remember this morning….?”
(3) Take Vitamin D tablets.
j
There is a solution for this: a pill box with compartments for each day of the week. So you fill the compartments for the whole week and empty one each day. Cheaply available at Walmart drug department,etc.
Yep, eventually had to do this with my levothyroxine. I still have experiences like this week, though. I can see you in your little compartment, Wednesday. Yes, I totally forgot about you.
Yes, the boxes don’t help me when I forget to take Wednesday’s pills. But they do keep me from taking them twice. Now if I can figure out a way to keep track of Trulicity…
(At risk of prolonging the hijack: the irony is, yeah, I know - thirty odd years in the pharma industry. I regularly lecture my elderly neighbor about using a Dosette box, but then I forget that I’m old myself… )
j
People not talking and sitting around looking at their phones. Not even getting up to speak, just texting each other privatly. Doesn’t make for exciting movie.
Sdmb nitpick:
The "well below average“ part is factually wrong.