Squid Game is the newest show being plagued with editing issues after a cameraman was spotted in a scene.
A viewer took to X on Monday, January 6, to share a season 2 moment, writing, “Someone is getting fired from the Squid Games team after one of the cameramen was spotted in the background mid episode 😭😭.”
The scene from season 2 showed a shoot-out that switched angles, which is when a cameraman suddenly appeared in the corner.
The dystopian survival series returned in December 2024 after a three-year break. Squid Game centers around a secret contest where players who are in deep financial hardship risk their lives to play a series of deadly children’s games for the chance to win a large monetary prize.
Netflix’s hit series isn’t the only show that’s been called out online for continuity errors. The Bear made headlines after season 3 was released in July 2024 and fans caught multiple issues, including Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) going from wearing to not wearing a wedding ring in a scene while another episode walked back Tina’s (Liza Colón-Zayas) history with Mikey (Jon Bernthal) at The Beef.
The Umbrella Academy, meanwhile, wrapped up its run in August 2024 with a scene showing a camera operator in a shot.
“I’m watching The Umbrella Academy season 4 and noticed that they forgot a whole ass camera rig in the backseat of a car during this shot 😅,” read an X post, while another fan pointed out the “prop snow” that they saw move in another scene. “Omfg they did NOT care. I bet they were so tight on the deadline that they forgot to remove it in time,” the second viewer wrote.
Another Netflix production under fire was Outer Banks, which has not done the best job at hiding their stunt doubles. In several season 3 episodes, which dropped in February 2023, fans picked up on editing mistakes where actors’ stunt doubles weren’t removed from the respective shots.
The trend continued into season 4 when several romantic scenes between Rudy Pankow‘s JJ and Madison Bailey‘s Kiara were ruined once viewers flagged that there were different actors in the scenes. Outer Banks also received backlash for killing off JJ amid rumors that Pankow, 26, wanted to move on from the show.
“We were pretty sure early on that this was where it was going. We thought that one of the Pogues would die almost in the very beginning in season 1, and we were pretty sure it was going to be JJ,” creator Shannon Burke told Cosmopolitan in November 2024. “We just weren’t sure when we were going to play that card. We knew this would be JJ’s season — this is JJ’s story. And we realized pretty early on, like, ‘OK, we’re going to play this card now.’”
Pankow made a rare comment about his departure, telling Netflix’s Tudum that same month, “When I first found out JJ was gonna risk it all and not make it, I understood it. And the risks got bigger and bigger, and the stakes got higher and higher. His death really does set up the future of OBX with the question, what is worth it? And when someone that close to you is gone, how do you navigate that?”
