Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

I was amused by a meme with a photo of the Joker and Harley Quinn, stepping out of a beater with white plastic bags in their hands, captioned something like "when you aren't a billionaire with a butler, you have to stop and pick up dinner before terrorizing Gotham City"

(even without talking about finances, the need for lighting and physical camera traversal mean TV "indoor" sets are often way more spacious than their real life counterparts)

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40022954 : the basic deal in Cowslip's warren was that in exchange for being well-fed and cultured, the rabbits never spoke of the traps (let alone those unfortunate enough to be caught in them).