Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Humphrey speaks with the groom, and then walks away. He moved barely a couple meters, and walking on the dock there are extras (the woman in purple that was shopping at the stall, and the woman sitting by the boat.) that made rather significant jumps in space and time to be there. (00:16:55)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: After Betty says "But I did love Jenny", her right hand is raised to the glass, something that does not match the previous and following shot. (00:19:50)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: In the sequence with Humphrey slipping and eventually falling from the railing, Kris Marshall's position keeps changing - as easily revealed by the distance from the bars of the railing. (00:21:25)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Humphrey uses a blue paper tissue to try and write down the pros and cons list; in the table close-up, the cup of goobers and the coaster are roughly aligned on the same plank, while they are at greater distance in the other shots. (00:23:40)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Catherine arrives bringing beer. She puts one next to Camille, and the neck label is positioned with the part with no logo facing the camera. In the following close-ups of Sara Martins though, the yellow circle with anchor logo is facing the camera. (00:24:20)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Camille answers the phone of the police station. Humphrey is biting his nails...but it's the nails of his left hand in one shot, right hand in the other. (00:30:00)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: In the sequence with Camille handing Humphrey the marker that tips his conscience, he is holding the cork in different ways between the various shots. (00:34:35)
Episode #4.4 - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: When the culprit says "You both have", they have their hand on the jumper, hand on the chin, hand on the jumper again. (00:44:15)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: In the intro, Cheryl Moore says "We are going to break America"; her arms are raised, and yet mid-sentence in a cut when she's just partially in frame, she has them low. (00:01:10)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: Before the phone rings, the new DS asks "And you?" to the goofy inspector, who is rubbing his foot with his wet sock in the left hand. Cut, and he's rubbing it with both hands all of a sudden. Florence's hands also equally suddenly go from above to below the belt. (00:04:30)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: When DI Humphrey Goodman holds the broken pin in the tweezers, the pin is held vertically in Kris Marshall's frontal shots, but horizontal in the other angle. (00:07:35)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: Throughout the whole first interview with the band, the pretentious guitarist, co-songwriter and whatnot (Pete Thunders) keeps having different positions leaning against the door or not, and his beer bottle switches hand repeatedly for no reason. If sometimes that is technically possible (but unlikely) due to brief cutaway shots, other times it is not (such as when Vince Thuram says "this is my place). (00:09:00)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: Introducing the various members of the music crew, Florence asks who the last member is. Vince Thuram, the producer, answers, but in the meantime there's been a cut, and the manager who had both hands in her lap, is now sitting with one hand behind, on the pillow. (00:09:55)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: To round up the first interview, Humphrey gets up and asks where everyone was when the death occurred. In the wider angle he is holding the slip of paper in hand, which he didn't have standing up. (00:11:25)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: When Dwayne says that due to the fence, the only way in is through the villa, Goodman has suddenly the hand in his pocket in the cut mid-sentence. (00:11:50)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: After checking out the planters, Humphrey walks along the pool saying the killer "covered their tracks by staging the scene", and goes on through an editing cut. Florence had both hands together in the first shot, in the second she's listening with her hand under her chin. (00:12:25)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: JP shows Goodman what he found; in the cut before the moment he presses the button. Humphrey suddenly has his fingers touching his lips, while he had both hands down an instant before. (00:19:55)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene with Pete Thunders in a bar - when they ask him about the loss caused by the sponsor defamation - a guy in a yellow tee walks out of the bar. At the end of the scene, when Florence gets a phone call, the same guy makes his exit stage right again. (00:21:45 - 00:23:30)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: During the scene with the guitarist in the bar, his glass is more full or less full between shots - easy to tell when in some shots the ice cubes pop on the surface and in others they have melted completely. (00:22:25)
Episode #4.5 - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: At the Bullet Bar, JP tells Dwayne he's not a big drinker. He has his thumbpad on the edge of the glass in great evidence in the first and third shot, and lower in the intermediate one. (00:27:05)
Answer: There's probably no particular reason. Sets and props on long-running TV shows often change as needed and for various reasons throughout a series run.
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