Television, film and suspension of disbelief

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Does anyone else have a problem with suspension of disbelief when watching or discussing plots in different movies or TV shows?

I noticed that other people can be so engrossed in fictional stories that they can discuss the arcs of different fictional characters and they can discuss what's happening in a storyline as if it's really happening. I can also do this if I really force myself, but when I go to discuss something like why a character in a tv show does something, I tend to think something like because the writers wrote the character that way, or the writers wanted the viewers to feel or react a certain way as opposed to some reason in the story that caused a character to do something or make a certain decision. I realize how dense it is and I do force the suspension of disbelief. It just doesn't come naturally.


Is it just a lack of imagination? A theory of mind problem?