I'm not sure how many movies or series which have been filmed here (and I have by no means seen them all) have actually explicitly referenced / depicted my city
sometimes it's used as a stand-in for places like New York, Illinois, Ohio, Africa or even the Outer Banks in the state to our north (no, casual, frequent boat use by teens is not the norm here, but we have hanged many pirates in the colonial era)
even with The Notebook I think this area is really secondary to the story, and I wasn't alive during the era depicted so it may be a bit romanticized
I don't recall if some mini-series touching upon the uglier parts of our local 19th century history explicitly named my city, but those might be accurate
I don't think we have any actual televangelists here, so the Righteous Gemstones may not be super-accurate, but background stuff in many scenes does seem more or less like normal contemporary life here
some obnoxious reality show about socialites like Southern Charm definitely does not represent the normal experience here
