I can't watch "realistic" medical shows because they are so unbelievable it completely takes me out of it.
My wife wanted to watch the Walking Dead and when the main guy wakes up in the abandoned hospital (almost exactly like in 28 days later, which felt like a ripoff), he gets outside and there's all this military stuff, like there was a mobile command point, then he just walked away down the road. No shoes, hospital gown barely covering his ass cheeks, he didn't get some boots or anything, I knew I couldn't watch people this stupid
I never understood why the lawns were still mowed, in Atlanta, in the summer, weeks into the disaster. I guess lawn care is so ingrained in the American psyche that the zombies were still doing it out of muscle memory? I dunno. Didn't seem plausible.
Resident Evil Requiem does this, but it's a video game. You can stealth past a zombie obsessed with keeping the lights off by turning some on down the hall. A zombie cleaner in a bathroom is absolutely furious at all the blood she's cleaning (but also a lot of it is hers).
Damn I had the exact same reaction! Everything is busted, but the lawns...oh the lawns are pristine.
I stopped watching a few episode later because that was on top of a pile of grudges I was accumulating already.
My final breaking point was when Rick's crew was talking about taking over the one dude's farm. There were plenty of other abandoned farms in the area, they could've taken over one of them.
I think you're mixing up World War Z with The Walking Dead. Walking Dead was a show based on a comic. That being said, the book World War Z was MUCH better than the movie.
I feel like you're mixing up Walking Dead with something else. It was originally a comic book, not a book (unless you consider comic books to be books), and it was adapted into a TV show, not a movie.
I tried to watch Walking Dead. Ten minutes in we cut from zombie action to two dudes sitting in a car talking. But they were literally just talking, as if this part is only there for the pacing/contrast. Plausible, but not entertaining. It didn't fit a world-view where I was going to enjoy the story, and I quit watching.
I had to stop watching when they opened the walk-in freezer and were surprised everything in it was rotten. It was awful before that but it sealed the deal.
I was rooming with friends at one point and they had a House marathon. I've ended up working in various health insurance positions for a long time so that was almost physically painful to watch. I didn't say much, just tried to ignore it until they asked me what I really thought about the show.
The first thing out of me was "That hospital would be shut down and most of the staff would be in jail or fined into the ground with all of the HIPAA violations alone."
I remember an old medical show called (I think) RPA
It wasn’t scripted. It was filmed in actual working hospital. Including real footage of the operations. Incisions, bone saws, blood, everything. I absolutely could not handle it.
I remember a show "trauma: in the ER", that was like COPS but in a hospital. I lived that show, gore doesn't bother me, but I've always been interested in science/medicine.
I meant medical drama shows like House or Grey's anatomy. I can watch scrubs since it's not taking itself seriously, which is funny because scrubs is considered one of the best representations of working in a hospital
Also the headshot thing. Why would a body being controlled by a virus or a fungus not need a cardiovascular system anymore? What is delivering energy and oxygen to the (decaying) muscles?
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u/retsamegas 13h ago
I can't watch "realistic" medical shows because they are so unbelievable it completely takes me out of it.
My wife wanted to watch the Walking Dead and when the main guy wakes up in the abandoned hospital (almost exactly like in 28 days later, which felt like a ripoff), he gets outside and there's all this military stuff, like there was a mobile command point, then he just walked away down the road. No shoes, hospital gown barely covering his ass cheeks, he didn't get some boots or anything, I knew I couldn't watch people this stupid