I feel like Hannibal got the silliest with it. Living in Wolf Trap and going to see a psychiatrist in Baltimore was less realistic than any of the serial killing.
Explaining to people that a PhD in clinical psych and working in clinical psych makes it fine to call someone a doctor (in that context) and gets those people really really mad at you.
the other great one from Hannibal is when they driving from Hibbing to Bloomington in time to save Abigail, like that's not a three hour drive not counting traffic
also Bloomington is just a Minneapolis suburb. it's not, like, the wilderness
Also,
NCIS: "We are here at this murder scene in this alley just off of K-Street, here's a whole thing about why there's no J-Street, my isn't D.C. just beautiful this time of year."
Me: "They are in Old Pasadena, CA, just behind the Jamba Juice."
Or how certain characters can cover a three km distance over hilly and rough terrain in two minutes thirty while wearing full sniper gear and desert pack.
i'll never forget watching characters in Homeland meet in this beautiful lush park with a large marbled fountain, wondering "huh where in DC is this" and hearing them say "it's nice to see you here in FARRAGUT SQUARE" lmao
There's a whole thing where he goes to Gettysburg, which apparently has extremely wide streets and the battlefield is just a Little Round Top which also weirdly is completely covered in trees and you look at it across a field.
I also enjoy hearing the actors mispronounce local places and seeing all the definitively not Canadian streets running above the kind of metro system I've never seen in my life.
It's like when something is based in the Colorado mountains and I'm like "that's not in Colorado!" Or the converse in Christmas vacation and they're clearly in Colorado getting their tree while they live in Chicago
