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Mr. Gregory Devry (No. 95) - S3-E11

Stupidity: Ressler and Navabi arrive at Janet MacNamara's location, and while the receptionist checks where she is, Ressler thinks that's the perfect opportunity to ask Navabi if she's OK, given the whole sex/firing thing. He says, "You didn't say anything on the way over," so there was a bit of a drive when they could have spoken about this privately! Instead, he gets a weird look from the receptionist who's privy to this entire discussion. Cheaper than filming a conversation in the car, presumably.

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Ivan - S1-E17

Other mistake: Ivan, the Russian hacker, says the last thing he wants is a hellfire missile "up my zadnjica." "Zadnjica" is Serbian, not Russian (and means "buttock," which, while not completely wrong, doesn't quite work).

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Mako Tanida - S1-E16

Stupidity: After the attack on Ressler and Audrey, the thug shoots Audrey, partly just because he gets the opportunity, and to distract Ressler. Ressler then turns around and runs to Audrey; the goon shouts, "We gotta go," and they leave, despite having a clear shot at Ressler from behind, their prime target. What, he couldn't take a second to finish the job?

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Trivia: During the confrontation in the sewers, Christian Bale said that he and Tom Hardy could sometimes barely hear each other, due to distance and noise from the water. As such, they had to give each other subtle hand signals after finishing talking, so the other person would know it was time for them to say their line.

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Meet Your Maker - S6-E12

Incel: Who are they?
Sherlock: That's Homeland Security.
Incel: But...you promised you wouldn't tell them about me if I talked to you!
Sherlock: Yes, but you play den mother to a pack of would-be rapists and mass shooters, so you can see how lying to you would be the highlight of my day. Look on the bright side - you don't seem to enjoy the company of women, and that shouldn't be a problem for the next five to ten years.

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Other mistake: Noticed in police procedurals but true in various contexts - whenever a group of people spontaneously lay out a case or explain something to someone, it's magically a well-oiled presentation. Person 1 says their bit, then Person 2, then Person 3 takes over the narrative. There's never any interruption or stumbling about which person is going to cover which section.

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All In - S4-E19

Plot hole: It's stated multiple times that the Semper Apex server room is protected from wireless signals, but Sofia's team sneaks in and plants a "ghost jack" with a wireless transmitter on it, which they say is slaved to an IP address. Except that wouldn't work in the server room. There'd be no way to get a signal to or from it.

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Bella - S3-E4

Revealing mistake: To demonstrate that "Clean This House" isn't a real company, Sherlock shows the man his phone displaying a 404 "file not found" message. Except the browser bar at the top simply shows "Clean This House", not a website domain. As written, he's just searched for the phrase, not tried to load a website.

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Episode #1.3 - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: As Luka says, "the life I had no longer exists," Kayla puts her hand on his shoulder. In the shot from behind, she removes it as Edward says, "I'm sorry." Then the angle switches; her hand is back on his shoulder, and she removes it again.

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Episode #1.3 - S1-E3

Stupidity: Julie took Sean's phone, and we learn she cut his thumb off so she could keep it on her to unlock the phone whenever needed. This makes for a funny moment but makes zero logical sense - having unlocked his phone once, she could just remove his thumbprint and use her own instead, or disable the security entirely.

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The Perimeter - S1-E10

Plot hole: After Murderbot glitches out and stops attacking the workers, they realise it's defective and start attacking it. The camera cuts to a wide shot from above; it's surrounded by angry workers, with none of the other SecUnits anywhere in sight. They were all tackling the workers together, authorised for violence; there's no reason they'd suddenly be AWOL when things start escalating, except for the drama.

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Trivia: Towards the end, there's a possible nod to Atomic Blonde, also starring Charlize Theron. We see a news clipping headlined "Taste of Freedom" with a post-it reading "Andy Berlin '89," the exact location and time period of Atomic Blonde.

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Trivia: The famous section on the prow of the ship with Jack and Rose was shot on a separate set section, up a ladder where hair and makeup people couldn't easily get. While filming the scene, Kate Winslet had makeup, brushes and sponge for both her and Leonardo DiCaprio tucked down the top of her dress so she could touch up their makeup.

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Stupidity: During the raid on the compound, the kids are being loaded into the bus and are about to be driven to a mass grave. Chris and Braxton know that’s the plan, but don’t even try to shoot the tyres on the bus to make it undriveable. They’re both excellent shots and could have done it without any more risk to the kids than the firefight already going on around them. Instead, they just watch the bus get driven away.

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Stupidity: The team can hack security cameras and gain access to Pam's laptop easily and load the image they want on her screen, but then have to email it to themselves for some reason rather than just transfer the file directly via the connection they already have to her machine. Ridiculously insecure and an unnecessary step.

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Factual error: When the hackers are trying to steal the photo from the woman's laptop, they turn up the TV to distract her. One of them clicks the smart TV icon and starts dragging the slider to increase the volume, which is all well and good, but we then cut to the hacker hammering the up key to increase the volume instead.

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Trivia: The "Skyhook" system used to retrieve Lau is actually a real technology. The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system was used operationally in the 60s but eventually retired in the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system.

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Ghost Light - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: When the three are arguing in the dressing room, Oliver says, "I don't care," then turns and wipes most/all of the lipstick writing off the mirror, leaving a load of messy smears behind. In the shot of Oliver when he says, "in a few weeks..." the mirror is behind him, with no smears. At the end of the scene as Mabel says "I'm done" and storms out, the mirror is very smeary again.

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The Affair - S1-E4

Richard Fish: One of the keys to life: the fast-forward. Every movie has its lousy parts, the trick is, fast-forward through them. See as time passes, you look back and say 'Huh. That little adultery thing. Oh that.' You fast-forward to then right now...and you're over it.

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Switcheroo - S1-E5

Ruggiero: Leonardo never would have married you. What idiot gall of you to claim his hand. Though I do see why all you crave is love. But you've never gotten it, and you'll never get it. Not because you're not pretty. Well, not just because you're not pretty. But because you're a pathetic, self-centered prude. Look at how everyone in the villa despises you. And I'm sure much was the same in Firenze. Every man that met you saw instantly what a slim-hipped, clenching little shrew you are and ran. So in answer to your... proposal, I would rather fuck a thornbush than fuck your dry, desperate body. I'd rather rot in this room until the plague takes us all than get one inch closer to you. My answer is no. You've got your answer. Now leave. I'm too sick of your drooping face to argue the point further.

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