Unrealistic

  My wife and I have been watching quite a bit of TV recently. What with being ill, there actually being a lot of new TV on we want to watch and my general being knackered after getting home from work it has been the best thing to do. Clearly a lot of TV is not meant to be realistic but a lot of it is set in reality. Also a lot of it is done with "pretty" people rather than normal looking people since they can be better to look at for long periods of time.

  Anyway, my point is, even with these being "pretty" people (can't think of a better phrase so that will have to do) they are dressed up, made up and generally styled in ways that are utterly unrealistic. I can point out so many examples of this that I have seen in just the last week. Take a scene where a pretty well endowed woman is going to bed with her boyfriend. When she lies down in bed it looks like there are two freaking mountains in bed, any normal woman would not have that. The only way for that to happen would be if she was wearing a very supportive bra, which by all accounts would be really uncomfortable to wear in bed. You can also see this in any crime program where they have a female body on a slab covered by a sheet. There are quite often two huge protuberances under the sheet, that simply doesn't happen unless there is some form of artificial support going on.

  Then there was the case the other night of a woman in a dress that would simple fall off her without a lot of sellotape being applied. She was moving around, leaning at various angles and generally acting normally. The dress however didn't budge an inch. On any other person in the real world it would be falling off and shifting around ending up looking a mess.

  Then we have other things on crime shows where people turn up in silly high heels with perfect dresses and end up clean as anything. Even one scene the other night where it was an arson scene and everybody looked completely clean, not a speck of dirt anywhere.

  I won't go in to more detail, including the fact that all men wear the same boring shirt and trousers combination seemingly. Surely female viewers want a bit more variety in dress of any handsome men they come across. I know my wife never complains when suitably BDU dressed men run around.

  The overall point here is that there should be some semblance of normalcy and reality in the program. Don't make it this silly pristine world in which nothing is ever out of place or doesn't look like it would in a perfect stationary photograph. Make it nice to look it but don't take it to extremes.