10 TV Moments IMPOSSIBLE To Watch Same Way After This

10. Freeze-Framed Jason Bateman - Ozark

Let's kick the list off with a really, really weird one from the fourth and final season of Ozark, as discovered by Redditor in-flexible on /r/MovieMistakes.

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In the season's very first episode, Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) meet with Darlene (Lisa Emery) and attempt to persuade her to stop selling heroin.

Yet pay close attention to the mid shot of Marty and Wendy sat at the poker table during the scene - almost immediately after Ruth (Julia Garner) sits down - and you might notice that Jason Bateman doesn't move. Like, at all.

While at first you might simply assume that Bateman is keeping icy still for dramatic purposes, on closer inspection it's actually a straight-up freeze-frame.

Presumably there was a production problem where the original take was unusable for whatever reason, and yet there wasn't time to re-shoot the entire setup.

Instead, Laura Linney was evidently filmed on a green screen and keyed into the shot, all while Bateman maintains the same hilariously glazed-over, stationary facial expression.

It's all the more bizarre given that the shot is lingered upon for around 15 seconds without a cut, rather than editing around it using other camera coverage of the scene.

You probably didn't notice it on an initial viewing, but now it's going to taint every rewatch. So, uh, sorry about that.

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