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For Sale Mar 31, 2026 at 12:46 AM

Do any TV shows realistically show characters’ hair growing and changing over time?

Posted by Financial-Pangolin-1

Are there any TV shows where characters’ hair actually changes naturally over time? In most shows, characters somehow keep the exact same hairstyle forever, no visible growth, no trims, nothing. It breaks immersion a bit because in real life hair obviously grows and people get haircuts. Looking for shows where you can actually notice hair growing out over time, or at least see that characters have gotten a trim or changed their hairstyle between episodes/seasons, even if the haircut itself isn’t shown on screen.
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longjumpingtote Mar 31, 2026 +2
Do you mean between seasons or episodes to episode?
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Financial-Pangolin-1 Mar 31, 2026 +1
Episode to Episode
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Horny_GoatWeed Mar 31, 2026 +2
What always bugs me is the guys that always have two days of beard growth, but we never see them clean shaven.
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Goldman250 Mar 31, 2026 +4
It’s one of the little details I always appreciated about New Girl - Nick in particular has his hair and beard change between episodes, growing it out for a few episodes and then getting a trim and a shave.
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WintersDoomsday Mar 31, 2026 +1
Harper’s Island….especially Sully
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The-Soul-Stone Mar 31, 2026 +1
Doctor Who, somewhat oddly considering the main character is a centuries old alien. Several actors playing the Doctor grew their hair out over the course if their tenure (Pertwee, Davison, Colin Baker, Capaldi) or had different styles (Tennant, and to a lesser extent Troughton) There was even an episode last year about The Doctor going to a barbershop for a haircut
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No-Badger-7377 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Riker's beard!!!
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Darmok47 Apr 1, 2026 +1
I mean, you can watch Kelsey Grammer's already thinning hair recede in Cheers and through Frasier. It's striking in his first appearance he has a similar hairlien to David Hyde Pierce, who would later play his brother.
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PracticalHospital868 Mar 31, 2026
Star Trek voyage captain janeway’s hair changed a lot.
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ecla2 Mar 31, 2026
Breaking Bad
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cgknight1 Mar 31, 2026 -1
Micheal Burnham in Star Trek Discovery is a good example of this: [https://www.listnook.com/r/StarTrekDiscovery/s/AfKWVTdTie](https://www.listnook.com/r/StarTrekDiscovery/s/AfKWVTdTie)
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Underwater_Karma Mar 31, 2026 -1
Jane in Stranger Things seems like an obvious answer
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moderatenerd Mar 31, 2026 -2
any show with kids over many seasons ??
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