My common tiniest nitpick which I’m sure happens to everyone who lives in a town where they film things (I’m waiting for it to happen with Vancouver):
That thing where people appear to teleport randomly around a town you know, walking around a corner in mid-conversation and reappearing several hundred yards away. I first noticed this with Eskimo Day (a drama set in Cambridge) but then it was near-constant with Lewis (which was filmed in Oxford). It can be weirdly disorienting, even nauseating, to watch this. Of course, I can see why it happens and it’s not an issue for 99% of the population, but it can be quite off-putting.
(Another tiny nitpick about Lewis and similar detective series - that thing where they go and visit a suspect and don’t bat an eyelid that they apparently own a £5m house despite not having a very lucrative job or similar source of cash. To me it would be a red flag to work out how they afford it. A GP working in Blackbird Leys (maximum income £90k a year if they’re lucky) who didn’t inherit a ton of cash can’t afford a massive house in North Oxford and to send their kids to the Dragon, it’s completely unfeasible.)
That thing where people appear to teleport randomly around a town you know, walking around a corner in mid-conversation and reappearing several hundred yards away. I first noticed this with Eskimo Day (a drama set in Cambridge) but then it was near-constant with Lewis (which was filmed in Oxford). It can be weirdly disorienting, even nauseating, to watch this. Of course, I can see why it happens and it’s not an issue for 99% of the population, but it can be quite off-putting.
(Another tiny nitpick about Lewis and similar detective series - that thing where they go and visit a suspect and don’t bat an eyelid that they apparently own a £5m house despite not having a very lucrative job or similar source of cash. To me it would be a red flag to work out how they afford it. A GP working in Blackbird Leys (maximum income £90k a year if they’re lucky) who didn’t inherit a ton of cash can’t afford a massive house in North Oxford and to send their kids to the Dragon, it’s completely unfeasible.)
