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Something I have noticed in recent movies and TV.
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no, this is a huge trope throughout the entertainment industry... in my opinion it has little to do with the genre.
another fun game to play is 'would this movie happen if they could pickup a cellphone and talked to x character'. many pre-cell movie scripts rely entirely on moving information from one person to another in the longest way possible
its always been pretty common, but its more frustrating today because communication is so easy to achieve. trivial even. we all are more or less able to communicate with almost anyone else at almost any time. theres simply no excuse anymore.
theres also just shitty writing. the 'im going to keep this a secret so theres a plot' trope. the recent series Evil did a great job of portraying a close team of 'professionals' who constantly fail to tell each other important bits of information the entire series. its beyond frustrating.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoorCommunicationKills
It's always been a common sign of sloppy writing. At the very least, a writer should create a situation that believably prevents the passage of information. Not just people being too stupid and emotionally blocked to tell each other. That goes for "I love you, and I'm sorry" and also for "the murderer is..."
My guess is that a part of the popularity of the trope comes from shows used to needing to return to the status quo at the end of the episode, plus needing ways to create conflict/drama without actually making their characters bad or evil. "It was all just a big misunderstanding!" type plots do those well, even if they end up making watching frustrating because it turns into 23 minutes of watching people fail to do the one simple thing that would resolve everything.