Private Investigator Rates 10 Detective Scenes In Movies And TV Shows | How Real Is It? | | Insider
Veteran private investigator Andy Kay rates 10 private detective scenes in movies and television shows for realism. Kay has been …
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February 19, 2026
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Sherlock is such an uppity twat.
What a shame he didn't look at Jessica Jones. Very interesting otherwise.
“If they look away a lot.”
This grinds my gears. There are PLENTY of reasons someone will not look at you. Cultural reasons, religious reasons (especially between men and women) neurological and psychological reasons, even physical reasons relating to neurology and simple eyesight. On the flip side someone who is D/deaf/HoH, or a psychopath, will be looking at you directly whether they’re lying or not. It has NOTHING to do with dishonesty. This is seriously outdated.
Appreciate Andy Kay’s honest assessments—it’s rare to hear such grounded takes that balance professional insight with public interest.
What’s the biggest myth you wish Hollywood would stop repeating about PIs?
6:26
That's a direct jab at Joe Navarro's hideously weak understanding of body language.
10/10 burn. Haha.
He looks like Mark Ruffalo's street gang brother, Mark Roughalo.
you used 'weary' instead of 'wary' in speaking?
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Wat de pog
96 to 99% LMAO i'm not surprised
5 is waaay too much for Sherlock
Ah, but Benedict's Sherlock isn't a private investigator, he's a consulting detective 😉
Darn! I was really waiting for him to talk about Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon (1941)! Unfortunately, Insider only asks people to review clips from modern movies and NONE from the golden era of hollywood.
I was obsessed with BBC's Sherlock for awhile. But when the final season came out, after a few rewatches, the writing felt cheap. They deliberately made everyone else dumb and answer questions with a question to give Sherlock his big show-off moment. The writing doesn't provide much dynamics and even makes Watson more a comedy relief than a companion. It just isn't fun go through agani.
"Women know."
Female premonition is simply unmatched and it's incredibly stupid that nearly no one believe women when they warn people.
For fun, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid should have been reviewed, great Steve Martin flick! 🙂
Andy js such a great eye of a private, I hired him years ago when I suspected my wife of cheating on me with the neighbor. Andy did a phenomenal job and I discovered she was cheating on me with BOTH neighbors but was also sleeping with the neighbors dog! She got arrested for beastiality because she was suckin that pups red rocket, nassty beeeich!
Isn't it the whole point of using a private investigator to not to involve the police and law enforcement.
The Sherlock movie takes place in the 1800s, so I think it's possible his disguise is quite a lot less ridiculous than it would have been if it was taking place in modern times.
Holy moly, he just proved that women are more intuitive than men are at @8:00
2:29 yeah the left handed explanation was kinda doozy
Im a right handed person and i usually hold a cup in my left hand i got a 2 point switch on which i use whichever side is free sometimes left or sometimes right so it doesn't make sense
Nice narrations and educative good job there , Pls more of these
Women know 96 to 99% of the time! Love that! We just know!
Doesn't he look like Max Cherry?
Video should be retitled to "Insider gives Professional Stalker a platform"
Sherlock is a consultant detective not private investigator
I would hope Don Johnson wouldn't need coaching on how to act after all this time!
I wish that 99% of the women hiring him would trust their instincts. No need to spend the money to confirm what you already know sis.
Never forget: Anyone can be a PI.
It’s a short 1 week course and requires no background check.
You could be a rapist and still be a PI.
This is why police despise them.
They don’t have any real authority or education or training.
They’re basically just grown adults playing detective.
Private Investigators are just wannabe police detectives who couldn’t make it.
8:42, If I hired a private detective who claims to be expensive and who said to me that "your husband is not doing what you think that he is doing" and then "not two days later" finds out that he was wrong, I would be very unhappy with the service and not expecting the detective to brag about it.
Fun Fact: If he puts on a Batman mask, he'll look exactly like Christian Bale!
Illegal to use zoom in a private setting but perfectly legal to take someone’s devices and extract data 🤔
Thank you
Glad he acknowledged woman’s intuition. It’s a real thing
I wish you guys would've shown the scene from the Sherlock movie where he actually catches up to Irene ij the cartiage with [SPOILERS] her boss to see his reaction to the whole scene 😂
You search up and contradictory in the when you said it the second way it was accurate and correct, and that is about magnification when you're in public with a camera you can absolutely zoom in on anything in public even if you're zooming into something that's not public on the other side of public, there's no law against zooming in and there's no involving camera lense angle at all anyway.
Not to say that wouldn't happen in the future whereas you might have a demand that your lens can only be between 50 and 55 mm I can definitely see that happening.
This guy look very alike shrek on the second movie
Is a criminal act a constitutional command? I need help.
How private are the investigations after this vid? 😂😂
Sounds broken.
Most likely sir.
Love ace Ventura!
“I’ll give him 5 because I like Jimmy Stewart” haha
10:45. he talks about blending in yet fails to notice what is going on all around RDJ. he is hiding in plain site with a bunch of circus performers, and dresses to blend! im thinking this PI just doesnt like sherlock?