I'm a computer guy, and every time I watch a show that has anything to do with computers I'm always complaining that the writers are full of 💩 💔 (That's not even a real IP address!).
I assume that cops, lawyers, and doctors are the same about cop, lawyer, and doctor shows respectively.

My question is, are there any shows that depict procedure faithfully?

For example, I've watched The Expanse, and I suspect that they run all of the physics by an expert to make the show more realistic.

@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.

@uastronomer I'm in awe of this response. Boosting, simply because I'm in awe of this response.

Thank you!

@uastronomer @Red_Shirt_Dude 4. Pew pew sounds in vacuum! When I watched Expanse the second time I thought it would be way more dramatic with thrum of machinery and rail guns firing for interior shots, cut with silence for exterior shots. I wish they would do an alternative audio version with this.
@julianlawson @Red_Shirt_Dude Heh yeah, that's fair, although unrealistic audio is so common I don't even think about it anymore. It's a bit like how all swords, some knives and even a few axes, will make a loud, ringing metallic rasp sound whenever they move or are are touched by light, in anything made in the past 20 years. Foley is it's own beast!

@julianlawson @uastronomer @Red_Shirt_Dude

There’s a scene in Series 2 with a transport ship from Ganymede. The gravity in the airlock is switched off in the seconds before it operates. I think I missed that physics lesson too.
So there are occasional unforced errors but generally I agree: the writers and directors have made a good effort.

[Space Agency guy speaking: I endorse this series.]

@nick_appleyard @julianlawson @Red_Shirt_Dude Ah but I don't think that scene was in error!

The book did a better job of describing the mechanics of the situation - the TV version chose not to bother, and focus instead on the emotional impact on poor old Meng):

So they're under constant burn, hence "gravity". Most characters wear magnetic books which are very convenient for filming "On the float" scenes without needing special effects to show that they're in free fall. But crucially, the refugees don't have those.

So then the action begins:
1) They cut thrust. Refugees all begin drifting freely (including Meng on the other side of the airlock)
2) Pump out all the air from the airlock (the stuff is too precious to vent)
3) Open outer door
4) Engage RCS thrusters to translate the ship gently in the directions away from the airlock door. Refugees, with no bulkheads to catch them, stay put in space while the ship drifts away from them, clearing the airlock (saves the crew from having to go in there afterwards and manually heave the bodies out). From the ship's reference frame, which is our point of view in the audience, they seem to all spontaneously drift out into space.
4) Close the door, re-engage thrust, continue on their way.