# What is extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happens in real life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311 "2021-02-06T04:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4630
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4630 "2025-01-21T22:40:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@DrDeth](#): > > > > In L&O Criminal Intent, Goren always did this- > > > > Find some tiny clue that leads him to suspect the rich person. > > > > Then get him into the interrogation room and trick him into confessing. > > I get the feeling you haven’t watched all that many episodes. Because that describes like zero episodes in season 1 and about 1 in season 2. I was watching a lot of L&O:CI fairly recently, like a year or two ago. It may not have started happening right away, but maybe by season 3 or so it seemed like Goren was doing this like every single episode. He didn’t trick the suspect like Colombo would, by getting the suspect to accidentally reveal info that only the killer would know; instead, when Goren knew the suspect did it but didn’t have the evidence to get a conviction, he would browbeat and psychologically manipulate them into confessing. He’d basically bully confessions out of them. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311)._