4th Apr 2020
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Kim Neville answers Richard's first question ("Almost a year"), she has her hand in front of her lips in the view from behind, hands on her lap in the fuller view later. This continuity gap keeps happening also at the end of the scene before Fidel arrives. (00:10:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When the doctor introduces the various guests to Richard and Camille, the close-up on Alex features him at an angle and under a lighting that have nothing to do with the rest of the scene. (00:08:55)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Richard says "Mothers can be real hazards, particularly yours", he has his right hand on the steering wheel, the left in the next shot. (00:04:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #2.1 - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: In the prologue, Roger Seymour is snogging his attractive young lover. She has her fan in her left hand when he says "I won't be long", but the fan is gone (and in her right hand) in the next shot. (00:00:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Catherine Bordey walks back after lying the smackdown on the killer, Ricketts is leaning against the fence with both hands, while he is leaning with one arm to the window frame in shots before and after. (00:46:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: During the denouement, the newspaper on DI Chris Ricketts' table is oblique in the frontal views, parallel to the table when the camera is behind him. (00:39:50)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Waiting for Richard and his big reveals, Camille is sitting with her mom at the bar. She says that she heard her new beau made her lasagna, and lowers her hand. In the next shot she is still leaning on it as if nothing happened. (00:39:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Richard cracks the case and starts looking at the board, mumbling and giggling in front of it, the others are staring at him changing the way they hold their paper sheets between shots. Richard himself has a brisk change of position when he laughs saying "That's superb!", going from a closed fist to an open hand. (00:37:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Jacko Gardiner is leaning against his suburbia door talking to Poole and Bordey, but his arm is angled up in the front view, perpendicular in the view from behind. (00:18:50)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Richard asks the owner of the import/export company if the victim owed him money, he is holding his handkerchief in his left hand seen from behind, in his right hand from the front. (00:13:15)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: In close-up, Richard holds up Dwayne's police shield with his 3 fingers placed lower than in the wider angles, where the middle was touching the fold of the wallet, instead of being an inch below it. (00:02:45)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: First time we see the victim, there's a striking difference between close-ups (no less than 5 coins on the pillow) and the angle with the whole bed (less coins, different lighting, head sunk into the pillow more). (00:01:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.8 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: DI Richard Poole gets in front of the victim's gate holding his bag in his left hand, and in the next shot he has it in his right. (00:01:10)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Fidel shows the clock in the evidence bag, the close-up puts the clock firmly in the corner of the bag, where he was not in the wider shot. (00:49:40)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: In the denouement, Richard shows a picture to the audience, then he puts it back on the pile on the table. Notice the picture's corner is touching the side of the plastic folder with all the others. When Richard walks back to the table having shown the camera to Renward, the photo moved to a completely different spot. (00:44:15)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Richard starts laughing having cracked the case, Camille's arm position on the back of the chair keeps changing between shots. (00:42:50)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Poole holds the Greatest Hits CD, his hands hold it in a different position between shots. Same when he passes it to Camille. (00:41:10)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: The police staff is sitting at the table while DI Richard Poole is listening to the bootleg. Throughout the sequence, Camille's hand position changes between shots multiple times. Same for Dwayne's hands when he asks him to rank the band; Dwayne's hand goes on/off the table between shot and reverse. (00:40:30)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Poole barges in when Avita is on a bed, and tells her "You're in love with Curtis." In the establishing shot the bed is entirely in the shadow, but when she turns towards the rude Englishman the side of the bed is strongly sunlit. (00:36:00)
3rd Apr 2020
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Camille tells Curtis that probably the widow fancies too, making him all giddy, her hand takes different directions at every cut (fingers on cheek, fingers on jaw, fingers not in view, wrist turned the other way so it's the back of the hand to be under the chin, etc). (00:35:25)
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