I am FURIOUS about the way kitchens are portrayed in TV shows. Someone is cooking dinner but either end of the counter are chopping boards - both with 1 large onion, two large tomatoes, 1 shallot and a whole bulb of garlic. In the middle, a THIRD chopping board with 5 mushrooms on it. The food? Apparently ready. Why is all that food out? Why is it all over the kitchen? Who is designing these sets? Someone needs to pay me one million pounds to be a TV kitchen consultant. I will make the kitchens realistic. Immediate Academy Award for services to TV kitchens.
@TheBreadmonkey Someone said, "It's too empty. Add a bunch of shit to the countertops. Something with color would help. No, you can't do what normal people do and just have a stack of mail."

@roknrol @TheBreadmonkey Or, presumably, some used pots and pans and general cooking detritus if the meal us supposed to be done.

My countertop tends to not be empty when the meal is done.

@Tubemeister @TheBreadmonkey Roseanne did it well...few other shows that I ever watched pulled it off though.