I didn't find that event egregious, nor some of the other canned background sounds used, but it did definitely stand out for me. I've only watched episodes 1 and 2 of season 3 at this point, but nothing has stood out to me as particularly bad. I've done a bit of Foley work myself in a few shorts and for reenactments in a documentary I produced and edited, and sound effects do tend to stand out for me when they seem unnatural or are prefabbed and reused often because my brain is conditioned to listen for them. What really does bug me in cinema and television are exaggerated sounds like the unrealistic sizzling when someone draws on a cigarette, the ridiculous and incessant click-clack of a firearm as it's being handled (something that doesn't happen at all in reality), the click as someone removes or handles a pair of glasses/sunglasses, etc. (there are quite a few more I could list). In episode 2 of "The Fall", in addition to your aforementioned "Diddy Laugh", there is a scene with some people working and moving things in the background and blended with some originally added effects was a pretty obvious canned crowd mumbling (at least that's how it came off for me). But it wasn't too badly implemented, and so far nothing of this type in "The Fall" has really bothered me like it can at times.
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