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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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Continuity mistake: During the introduction of the trial, the first time we see the defendant as Judge Thelma Stewart reads his name, there is a pen in front of him, horizontal, off the notepad. Wider angles show the pen on top of the notepad.

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Continuity mistake: In the kitchen scene at the beginning of the movie, the protagonist's pregnant wife jokes about him saying something "wildly inappropriate" to the judge to be exempted. In close-up, she has no hair running down the front of her left shoulder, as opposed to the rest of the scene.

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Factual error: Justin Kemp is summoned for the jury hearing on Monday, 26 October 2022, according to the letter his wife holds in close-up at the beginning of the movie. Hard to be there on Monday, since 26 October in 2022 was a Wednesday.

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Episode #1.6 - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: In the flashback from their first shot at the lawsuit, Olympia joins the factory worker for his smoke break. She tells him she actually quit, and he asks her, "You miss it?", lowering his arms. When she replies in the next shot, he lowers them again. She also holds the cigarette in a different way. (00:12:35)

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Factual error: Caracalla and Geta in this movie are decadent mad kings, but that's a portrayal that has no foundation in history - here they look more like their successor Eliogabalus. Caracalla in particular, who was the elder brother, wasn't an effeminate sybarite plagued with syphilis; on the contrary, even by his detractors, he was mostly remembered for being, or at least acting, very soldier-like; "Caracalla" was his nickname, after a military mantle.

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Factual error: Much like its predecessor, this movie sorta speedruns through emperors; Geta and Caracalla here are shown as both ruling Rome as "twin emperors" in 200 AD, and die within a couple of days of each other, betrayed by Macrinus, who dies the same day. None of that is anywhere close to how things happened, to the point that discussing dates is sorta pointless; nothing resembles history if not in the loosest sense. Macrinus in this movie is never even formally proclaimed emperor, as opposed to him ruling for at least a full year.

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Factual error: The movie begins in 200 AD, and the victorious general Acacius celebrates triumph and reports to the twin emperors that he conquered Numidia in their name. This may be less of an accomplishment than it appears when you consider that Numidia had already been a Roman province for centuries.

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Other mistake: Macrinus and one of his high-ranking friends are discussing Lucilla's son, who disappeared when Commodus died. The guy says that Lucius disappeared when he was "about 12," but in the original Gladiator, he was barely about to turn 8. They also say these events happened 16 years prior, but, again according to the movie lore (without even looking at history), he died in 180 AD, and this movie is set in 200 AD.

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Factual error: After the naval battle, Thraex is waiting for an informant who tips him off about Lucilla and Marcus Acacius's plans. And of course, as a well-educated gentleman of 200 AD, he kills time by reading the newspaper. Wait, what? Needless to say (to anyone but Ridley Scott, probably), ancient Romans wouldn't/couldn't exactly get their news by newspaper, the press having not been invented yet. This one looks so modern in its layout it even has headlines and a proper publication title, "Roma Viridia."

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Continuity mistake: When Macrinus is poisoning Caracalla's mind, telling him about supposed plans of his brother to use him as a scapegoat, Caracalla shouts, "That's a LIE, he's... he always LIES." The cup suddenly switched hands.

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Seekest Thou the Road - S1-E1

Revealing mistake: When Agatha's apparent nemesis makes her grand entrance, blasting the front door open, the powerless witch gets thrown against the closet door. The face of Kathryn Hahn's stunt double is fully visible before the camera cuts away to show the fall. (00:30:45)

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Seekest Thou the Road - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the interrogation scene, the folder and the notepad are positioned differently depending on the camera angle. (00:20:00)

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