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The Judge - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Ben joins Judge Carter Addison in his room in the first part of the episode. Addison is on the phone. Before he finally hangs up, he says, "Okay, I'll see you then." Before it cuts away, you can see Dick Van Dyke putting down the smoking pipe that is firmly between his teeth in the following close-up. (00:10:05)

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Diary of a Perfect Murder - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Ben Matlock is in his office, angrily polishing his boots while he listens to the interview of the brash prosecutor on TV. The leg of the boot is under, then above, then under his forearm again in the span of three shots. (00:43:30)

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Plot hole: The first scene at Area 51/55 shows Rex Strickland operating an acid 'shower' that will be the key for the movie finale. Venom is not present at this scene but knows exactly how this never-before-mentioned or shown Chekhov acid works and that Strickland is the one guy with the necessary clearance to use it.

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Factual error: In the Senate scenes, there are a few women in the council. Women couldn't be senators in Rome. To be fair, none is shown raising their hand when Macrinus asks to vote, so it can be argued that they are perhaps not portrayed to be full-fledged members; however, the simple participation in the most important ruling body of the Empire appears to be anachronistic.

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Character mistake: When the MC introduces Lucius and his team during the naval battle, he says, "Today, we relive the battle of Salamis; the Trojans vs the Persians." The battle did involve the Persian empire, but not against "Trojans", but rather the Greeks.

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Factual error: While it is true that in ancient Rome naval battles were orchestrated and would occasionally take place in the Colosseum itself, and even that salt water could be used, the logistics of bringing live sharks all the way inland are patently absurd.

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Factual error: In his flashback en route to Rome, young Lucius is shown playing football (soccer) as goalkeeper with his friends in Africa. There is no historic testimony of any ball game in the ancient world with such a close resemblance to modern soccer (exclusive use of feet, rectangular goal, etc.).

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Factual error: The Numidians defend their city against the Roman invaders using also trebuchets - a type of siege equipment that would only appear in the Middle Ages.

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Continuity mistake: The main villain is trying the soft approach and wants to persuade David's ex-wife to side with him. As they are having a conversation about the bank loan, John Steiner's glass is raised - or not - depending on the camera angle. (00:37:00)

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Visible crew/equipment: When the main character and his family are first seen making their way to the train, the rightmost one in a row of three eerie blonde pageboy-haired children keeps looking into the camera. Generally, throughout the movie, there are plenty of instances of child actors looking into the camera, mainly young Malcolm (Lorenzo Aiello). (00:05:15)

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Revealing mistake: After the arrest of her fake father, Annie Belle reaches Linda by phone. Naturally, she is swimming in the nude. Linda then turns to her husband, who is just then reading about Michael's arrest. The headline about this Hong Kong arrest is a glued-on slip of paper on top of an article set in Lyon. (00:21:30)

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Factual error: You can't expect a great deal of historical accuracy from a movie that narrates a love story, conveniently ignoring the glaring fact that one of the two lovers was DEAF. Nevertheless, here Francisco Jose de Goya paints for his lover, Duchess Maria, a 1797 painting, "The Black Duchess", only after he already painted "Charles IV of Spain and His Family", finished in 1801, and the St. Anthony of La Florida frescos, 1798.

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Seekest Thou the Road - S1-E1

Trivia: Watch the fake opening for "Agnes of Westwood"; at three points (just after Agnes O'Connor's name disappears, as soon as Herb Feltman's name appears, and when Mrs. Hart's name is on screen), there are very quick cuts to seemingly dead women. And indeed dead they are; they are witches Agatha will kill (or rather, has killed) in the very last episode (from the first and the second encounter in the Witches' Road montage).

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Death's Hand in Mine - S1-E7

Question: Where do Lilia Calderu's final words to Agatha come from? All the other premonitions came from experiencing her life out of sequence or by performing well-established rituals. She will be long gone by the time Agatha and the villain have their showdown, and she did not read Agatha's future through other means (she did a tarot reading just for the Teen and for herself). (00:27:10)

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Revealing mistake: During the credits, Don Falcone is reading about the bloody feud between fellow cheesemaking mafia families Lombardi and Zanetti. The first article he browses is the April 7, 1985 edition of the Italian newspaper "Il Messaggero," with a bad glue-on job (the left column's font does not match the rest of the actual newspaper). He then reads about the car bombs in another newspaper, "Paese Sera." Here the prop design is better, but if you can read Italian, you can easily see that the article does not match its headline at all; it's not about a brutal mafia murder, but rather about the "sliding wage scale" referendum which was taking place in the country at the time the movie was shot, in 1985. (00:03:00 - 00:04:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Anita Caprioli and Pasquale Petrolo are talking by her car, the car door hits Lillo. The two awkwardly chat for a while; during the conversation, their hands change position a few times between shots. (00:51:30)

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Other mistake: Justin reads the online article about what happened one year earlier on October 25th, which, as mentioned during the testimony and in line with the movie current events taking place in 2022, was Monday, Oct 25, 2021. However, he then checks his online calendar, which has a note for the due date of the twins (his wife's earlier miscarriage that indirectly caused the accident). But the note is on a "T" day - Tuesday, Oct 25, 2022. He looks up a 2021 note in a 2022 calendar... and he finds it. It should also be noted that you can see in the browser window by the calendar that the online article he was checking out earlier now wrongly says that they argued on the night of the 24th instead of the 25th. Clicking on the calendar entry pops then up the correct Monday 25th, 2021 date.

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Other mistake: Justin is checking out an online article from one year prior. The article incorrectly says that the arguing couple parted ways "shortly after midnight," when we know that she was in fact killed at 11:46. It may seem that an online article getting something wrong is not a big deal (then again, most movie mistakes aren't), but what makes this funny is that Justin checks a few seconds later the same article, and this time the same line says "shortly before midnight." Someone realised the mistake when it was time to shoot a closer angle of the screen, and production fixed it.

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Revealing mistake: During every flashback of the altercation leading to the homicide, the beer bottle completely shatters from just a touch like a sugar glass movie prop. The first time we see the flashback, it is also clear that the minute pieces fall off the table in the first shot, but in the reverse angle, the bottom of a broken bottle is resting on the table.

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Continuity mistake: During jury selection, the defense attorney asks Cedric Yarbrough if he has any history of domestic violence. He formulates the question, leaning against the railing with his arms spread. Mr. King fires back with a question of his own, and you can see the attorney leaning with his left arm inward.

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