Best TV continuity mistakes of 2021

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Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Sam is in the bathroom holding up two sample paint chips, in the first shot she's holding up the yellow in her left hand and the blue in her right hand, but in the next shot they've switched and are in the opposite hands, just as Jay arrives with the coffee.

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: The captain of the submarine has the rank of Commander (3 solid stripes) and half-way through episode 4 the captain suddenly has the rank of Captain (4 solid stripes) as shown on his shoulder epaulettes.

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First Day - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: Invasion 2021 Season 1 Episode 10 While riding in a car with Hitomi's father, he recalls that she loved a compass she had. She would take it everywhere and loved to follow the red arrow north. But later, when Hitomi's girlfriend finds the compass among her things, the arrow is black with a white tip.

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Battle Scars - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: When Echo prepares to calibrate the surgical pod, he has a bandage on his head, even though the members of the Bad Batch don't get their control chips removed until near the end of the episode. (00:14:11)

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Great Expectations - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: One of the 4400 now has an apartment and shows off her new darkroom to a friend. It has a sliding door at the entrance. In a later scene she is in the darkroom and her friend enters. But this time the door is a regular one that swings. In truth, neither of these are typical of a darkroom, as darkrooms have a light lock entry. Either double doors or a U-turn entry to prevent light from getting in.

toroscan

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The Outlaw Eddie Wagner - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: Stabler is patted down by a NYPD Officer and the officer is shown slipping something into Stabler's left front pants pocket. After the officer departs Stabler pulls a paper out of his front right pants pocket. (00:15:52 - 00:16:30)

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Jobs and Hangouts - S1-E17

Continuity mistake: When the boys are playing at Norman's father's apartment, we see a ball hit a lamp to the left of the sofa, denting the lampshade. We see the lamp fall and hear it shatter. Later we see the intact lamp back on the table.

Leicaman

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Continuity mistake: It is stated multiple times that forensics reports showed that the Bay Harbor Butcher used ketamine to incapacitate his victims. However, it wasn't ketamine that Dexter used in the original series, but rather M99.

Phaneron

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The Heart Is an Arrow - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: Alina is trying to escape both the Crows and General Kirigan's men through the streets of the town of Ryevost. While in an alleyway, she kicks in the door to a building, only to still be outside when she emerges from the other side of the door - when she looks back inside of the door she just emerged from, it leads to the interior of a building, not the alley she just came from.

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Chucky Actually - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: When the living-doll version of Glen/Glenda/GG is revealed, after they thank Tiffany for giving them a makeover, the way they are holding the mirror changes instantly between cuts. This then continues throughout the rest of the scene, with them holding the mirror in a different way between shots probably a dozen times.

TedStixon

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The Inverse Method - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: When Chrissy and Lois are in the car before going into the meeting, the passenger side window is down, but not all the way. But in the next shot when Chrissy steps out, it's all the way down.

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Mark got into his cell, the top bunk had a vinyl-like covered mattress (or folded gym mat) that had a lengthwise seam along the middle of the side. He was not fixing his bunk bed while he was talking to cellmate Bernard, but when he was removing items from his bag on top of the bunk bed, it was now covered with a blue blanket and a sheet folded down by the pillow could be seen. A little later, the blanket was also covering the foot of the bed. (00:13:15 - 00:15:03)

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