In every edgy modern movie and TV show ever

Someone snorts a huge line of ketamine believing it to be cocaine.

Split-second, grainy black-and-white flashback sequences.

One of those excruciating 'dramatic' covers of a famous pop song, a la the Gary Jules version of "Mad World."

Someone singing/saying a menacing version of a nursery rhyme.

Close up of a guy's face as he furiously masturbates.

the onion had a good one

https://theonion.com/cool-glitch-effect-on-movie-studio-logo-must-mean-shit-1825294743/

Huge reverby drums getting faster and faster in the trailer syncing with cuts from scene to scene until there is no time between each drum.

This was hard to describe in words, hope people know what I mean.

two people have a conversation while driving and suddenly they get t-boned by a car in slow motion

bland featureless "hot" people who, per credits, are mostly nepo babies.

Slowed down cover version or remix of a Classic Pop/Rock song

Oops, missed Crypto's post.

Earbleed

Giancarlo Esposito

Cold open followed by an elaborate title sequence showing abstract images of ticking timepieces, wire-frame map renders of cities rising and falling, a close up of a fetus floating in glowing amniotic fluid, and/or detached robotic arms silently constructing a representation of the main character

Bathing suit-area nudity from all sexes.

cryptic flashbacks triggered by innocuous items related to the protagonist's yet-unrevealed past trauma. the protagonist is often brought back to the present when an ally asks 'hey, you okay?'

A Restomoded vintage car

dumbass decontextualized pseudo-tautologies halfway up the rung of abstraction, gravelly intoned or displayed one line at a time during a strobing action sequence

in life we make choices
... but some choices make lives

true love is a life beyond death
and the dead can love beyond life

in theaters this may

Been trying for a month to get through the first season of Euphoria, where they're probably all collected in one place.

Instead of popular old music, they use a bunch of obscure tracks licensed from Numero Group, Light In The Attic etc.

A scene where someone's face gets splatters with blood, either from an exploding head or because they have to dismember a body

Been trying for a month to get through the first season of _Euphoria_, where they're probably all collected in one place.

you don’t HAVE to watch something you don’t like

None of the episodes are the same length, with a handful that are practically movie-length.

"one day previously..."

hero has a prescription drug/alcohol problem

bisexual villain

Parental character (who isn't an actual parent) with a weed farm. Gives advice similar to what remy was describing upthread

Neon lit nightclub with gangster and his posse surrounded by scantily clad women drinking champagne.

And protagonist drinking neat whisky in a strip bar recounting his woes to hard bitten but soft hearted stripper.

Gratuitous full frontal *male* nudity, for a change.

you don’t HAVE to watch something you don’t like

There's someone from network standing over me, forcing me to watch...The Sunken Cost Fallacy: if you don't bail early enough, you plow through.

every actor does the annoying loud quick inhale before each dramatic line read

A scene where someone picks their child up from school/daycare right after doing something utterly horrible or horrifying.

criminals talk openly in a Denny's about their crime plans

cold open where key character seemingly dies/gets murdered

Car accident, someone escapes from the trunk

dog latin re credits

WestWorld: ...Where nothing can possibly go worng!

Game of Wheel of Time of Dragons of the Crown of etc.

Character walks away from a massive fireball explosion without flinching or looking back.

indecipherable British accents

sex between two enemies who wake up the next morning battling each other

Mumbled dialogue

Poorly mixed dialogue