Yeah, it’s weird - I fully expect a big movie to not be shot where it appears to be these days, but I’m still surprised when TV shows aren’t. I haven’t fully caught up entirely with how widespread greenscreen use is for totally banal shots, and how convincing it is even on a television budget. At the same time, paradoxically, I get pulled out of a tv show when they don’t do it, too - recently a few shows that were obviously filmed in Vancouver but set in various parts of the U.S. totally threw me when they tried to pass off a totally unaltered street shot as somewhere else. In one case Vancouver’s Hotel Europe was standing in for New York’s Flatiron building (and failing) and in another, a Victorian home was supposed to be somewhere in San Francisco (not only did it not quite look right, the neighborhood it was supposed to be in doesn’t have those kinds of homes anyways).
