Which T.V. show is the most realistic?

Which T.V. show is the most realistic?

  • Adam-12

    Votes: 19 30.2%

  • Blue Knight

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • CSI (any)

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • Hawaii Five-O (old or new)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hill Street Blues

    Votes: 11 17.5%

  • In the Heat of the Night

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • Law and Order (any)

    Votes: 8 12.7%

  • Miami Vice

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • NCIS (any)

    Votes: 6 9.5%

  • NYPD Blue

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • The Shield

    Votes: 9 14.3%
  • Total voters
    63
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CSI is the worst, but NCIS is pretty bad, too.

Does anyone actually have CSI techs who are armed and sworn officers who go and do investigations and shoot people? Is that even a thing? :rolleyes:

NCIS does plenty of the ballistics magic, too. I remember the lab tech telling one of the agents one time that a shooter must have been "special military" because he used "147-grain hollow points, and a civilian can't just buy those at the store."
 
Madcap_Magician said:
NCIS does plenty of the ballistics magic, too. I remember the lab tech telling one of the agents one time that a shooter must have been "special military" because he used "147-grain hollow points, and a civilian can't just buy those at the store."
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Yeah you do get a few of those gems, but I think it's unavoidable when you've got people writing the scripts whose weapons experience and knowledge is limited to the prop guns. It's super annoying to us, but the average watcher probably never even gives it a thought.
 
The only thing Hollywood gets as wrong as guns, is computers. When the 12 year old girl sits down at a computer with a proprietary grahipical interface completely lacking a command prompt, let alone commands at all, and knows "It's a UNIX system" let alone that knowledge mattering for a point and click GUI...

Or Martin Riggs "did a guy in Laos" from a thousand yards and "only three guys in the world" could make that shot...
 
Most realistic firearms involved TV show I have ever watched would have to be strikeback. As far as cop shows, hands down The Wire wins.
 
JimDandy said:
The only thing Hollywood gets as wrong as guns, is computers. When the 12 year old girl sits down at a computer with a proprietary grahipical interface completely lacking a command prompt, let alone commands at all, and knows "It's a UNIX system" let alone that knowledge mattering for a point and click GUI...
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I think the Legendary Fail in this category would be Jeff Goldblum hacking the alien mothership with a Macbook in Independence Day.
 
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ABSOLUTELY NONE.
I have been a police officer for 28 years. Nothing on TV has ever come close. It is all fiction. No one would ever watch a single minute if any of it came close to day to day law enforcement.


I have 30 yrs. under my belt and I agree!
 
I think the Legendary Fail in this category would be Jeff Goldblum hacking the alien mothership with a Macbook in Independence Day.
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No, no, that one is believable. Mac is already an alien language.

As for TV shows, can that include movies? Like maybe... The Last Stand?
 
I probably watch cop shows on tv as much as the next guy.

I can and will say this though. Not once did I see something on a tv cop show that made me perk up and say, wow......I never thought of doing that and then adopt it as my own.
 
No love for Best of the West on the Outdoor Channel???

We all know that if we buy the special Huskemaw scopes we can just dial up and pop an Antelope at 890 yards.:rolleyes:, but what is the fun in that?
 
I just watched Detective Kate Beckett pull the magazine from a 1911, but not rack the slide to check the chamber. For all the slide racking they do when they don't have to, when it's actually the right thing to do...
 
Anyone see FLASHPOINT? It has its Hollywood moments but the weapons are pretty spot on. Tactics are sound as well. I been on a specials teams unit for a few years now and the drama between members is about as real as it gets. The plots however do get kinda out there towards the end, but its pretty close in the first couple seasons. Closest to actual police work though, I would go with dragnet.
 
Yeah Flashpoint lost some Cred when The Pink Ranger started dating the Beach Boy.

I don't remember exact instances but I have the feeling I laughed at some gun handling on Flashpoint though not as much as other shows. One of the things that made me laugh was for being in Canada, freakin' everybody had guns.
 
Which was your favorite, the may die tomorrow Leslie/Howard hookup, or the friendly-fire-athon before it even started version?
 
ATN082268 said:
Which T.V. show is the most realistic?
Which of the following T.V. shows is the most realistic? When I say realistic, I mean primarily with respect to guns carried, general tactics and situations involving shootouts.
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The OP was asking about the aspects of realism I've highlighted above. Dating, police cars, and paintball battles are off-topic.
 
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