20 Movies and TV Shows That Actually Portray People’s Jobs Accurately

There’s a reason why every fictional hero has a vague, glamorous job in architecture and fashion — if they had real jobs, it would be super boring. Even when their careers are less fanciful, the day-to-day mundanities tend to get glossed over. For example, in real life, crime scene investigators do very little of the actual investigating. We only ever see doctors diagnose the most exotic cases of bird cancer and never someone’s ear infection. TV cops do, like, no paperwork.

That’s why it’s all the more shocking when someone on TV has a normal job and it’s actually normal. Whether it’s as daring as flying a plane or as banal as filing endless reports from a fluorescently lit cardboard box, it’s the details that make or break the illusion. We found out just how rare that illusion is when user this_guy_aves asked r/AskReddit, “Employed people of Reddit, what representation of your job in movies or TV shows made you stop and go, ‘Wow, they really did their research’?”