• SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    While not a medical show, Criminal Minds a at least used to use a similar thing, especially to demonstrate how Reed was analysing things.

    I think it to be a good way of showing things on TV as having the actor stare on to a whiteboard for 20-30 seconds and then going “I got it” wouldn’t really make good TV. The alternative would be the character coming up with the solution after just a quick glance and that also wouldn’t make good TV.