@Red_Shirt_Dude I *loved* The Expanse for exactly this reason.
I mean it wasn't perfect, but I can think of only three things that were clearly wrong. Two are core concepts that we turn a blind eye to because they are foundational to the entire story universe. The third, though, is simply a special effects goof.

1) The Epstein Drive: Basically an impossibly efficient rocket engine. It doesn't break physics, but it is highly implausible engineering.

2) The Protomolecule: This stuff ignores the laws of physics in many ways, including faster-than-light communication, reactionless acceleration, and creating SciFi wormholes that can practically transport physical objects between star systems.

These two are fine since they're fundamental to the plot and to the general world building. The Expanse doesn't exist without them, everybody watching agrees not to complain about it. Hard science fiction almost always works like this.

3) A scene early in series one, where they're working on the exterior of a ship under acceleration. A character drops a crowbar. What would happen in real life is that the crowbar simply falls, exactly as if a worker on the outside of a skyscraper dropped something: gravity is indistinguishable from acceleration. However, the animators hired to create this special effect did not know this, and instead made the crowbar fly shoot off weirdly to the side. The writers and producers caught the error too late in the production process to do anything about it, and have apologised many times in interviews and their own podcasts.

And that's pretty much it. I used to follow Corey S James on the birdsite and they spent a LOT of time answering armchair physicists who thought they'd picked up a mistake or misunderstanding of physics. They were always wrong.

@Red_Shirt_Dude the only TV show I've seen remotely accurately portray how scientists work and (mis)behave was a Canadian epidemiology show called Re:Genesis.

It wasn't perfect, but it felt like a real lab group and the virology was vetted by experts. That is, until the last season, which jumped the shark and was trash.

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Scrubs

Hugz & xXx

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Destroying computers by smashing the monitors, not thinking to unplug the internet when racing against a virus gaining access to the network - all things that drove me nuts as a teen hahah

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Cop shows are mostly state propaganda. Except the Wire and the Shield. Those are fairly realistic.

A realistic cop movie is Serpico.

@Red_Shirt_Dude Veronica Mars (especially season 1 & 2) has some execptionally accurate photography and computer use. Especially in the use of Photoshop, photo enhancement within realistic limits, and copying files from computers with actual tools and taking about the right amount of time.

It's not even done pointedly or made a big deal of, it was just done for real by someone rather than set up by a graphics team for show.

@Red_Shirt_Dude The Expanse also had linguists consult to help construct the Belter creole for the show (the author of the books admits that languages aren't his strong suit). I think they may have done the same with the brief depiction of a Belter sign language (which uses much larger and more exaggerated movements, and doesn't use things like finger spelling, because that's hard to do when wearing a bulky spacesuit).

I also found it a fun detail that in one episode, they actually did use public domain music (all of Hank Williams' work is public domain as far as I know) as a depiction of Martian popular culture - because I would absolutely bet that Earth copyright holders wouldn't even pick up the phone for the Martian government. (And I'm sure Mars also has a thriving media piracy scene, though I don't think that ever comes up in the show or the books.)

As a sewist, I honestly cannot think of any shows or movies I've seen that have accurately shown the entire process, or even just parts of the process of making a garment from scratch to finished, and especially not with accurate time frames. Mostly, suit fitting scenes are the most likely to be kind of accurate (I can't remember what I saw that actually showed what the fitting pieces look like with all the basting thread's hanging out, but that was a detail I appreciated) . If they're out there, I haven't seen them, though I don't actively seek them out.

But I'm sure that's true of a lot of crafts shown in movies.

OTOH, as is well-known, Breaking Bad consulted with law enforcement (the DEA, I think) to ensure that they didn't get too accurate in their depiction of the process of making illegal drugs.

Less well-known is that Robert De Niro's character in Heat was based on a real person (of the same name too!) and the famous coffee shop scene was based on a real interaction with a detective who was trying to catch him out doing something illegal. Most of the heists and related events in the film are based in real life events. (And then, awkwardly, Heat has apparently inspired a few later criminals too. I guess that's the price you pay for accuracy?) But I'm told that's what Michael Mann is known for.

@Red_Shirt_Dude An interesting hacker series is The Undeclared War. To make hacking/programming more interesting, they do a sort of 'mind palace' visualization structure.

The expanse they take a number of poetic departures, but there is one specific scene that drove me bonkers (and didn't annoy anyone else). In a scene where something is spinning for 'gravity', outer space is above them, and the center of rotation is below. Why it bugs me so much, no idea.

@Red_Shirt_Dude Mr robot is the most realistic one I've seen.

(On a comment side, I've been working on set, and yes we can't put real IP's on screen, because nerds will try and abuse it, so yes we put some 256 in it, no real phone number either)

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I think that specifying the threshold of faithfulness that you desire (e.g. Expanse -- ignoring its declared departures from our physics -- has the "Roci running silent" sequence that is unrealistic at least in timescales) might net you very different answers.

There are various semi-historical or semi-documentary series that might fit your bill. From The Earth To The Moon is one such (the faithfulness complaints I had about it were minor and not about realism, but about faithful reproduction of actual space hardware[1]). I haven't watched more than excerpts of Masters of the Air, but ones I've seen suggest that it's realistic.

[1] of the sort "this is not how you switch the LM descent engine off, doing that would have no effect"

@Red_Shirt_Dude Most dramatic representations of medical things are quite inaccurate. That seems especially true in my specialty, psychiatry, where the representation of a psychiatrist is often evil or more in need of therapy than their patient and all patients can have their serious brain diseases cured by someone just listening to them.

Listening is, of course, hugely important but it’s usually just the beginning of a complicated assessment diagnostic & treatment process.

@Red_Shirt_Dude The Expanse is one of very few shows that get orbital mechanics at least plausibly right.

As for the other genres you mention, I suspect it's necessary to cut out some of the more boring parts if the show is to be watchable at all (true for most computer related plots too). Whether the result can still be considered faithful is probably a matter of debate, if such a show even exists.

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@siracusa coined this the Plumber Problem