Not a programmer, but I can definitely attest that TV Medicine is wildly inaccurate. From CPR (method, success rate, reason for initiating) to the usefulness of various imaging modalities; it’s like watching a gardener plant a whole watermelon and growing a sky-high beanstalk the following morning.

A really fun intersection of both of these was the episode of Bones I saw once when visiting my dad, where some corpse had a microscopic code etched in its femur that then hijacked/hacked the CT machine computer when scanned.

Try being a violinist and watching people play violin in movies. That’s also painful.

One show I watched where the genius “tech” girl told the hero she’d just “hacked the open source TCP port”.

This is soooo true. With a few notable exceptions (e.g. Matrix 2) most of the hacking scenes are a really bad caricature of the real deal. Sometimes even worse than that.