10 TV Moments They Didn't Want You To See

TV shows often work to such insanely tight production deadlines - especially compared to the world of film - that it's honestly surprising more unhinged mistakes and eccentricities don't slip through the cracks. Even the most detail-orientated showrunners have only so much time and energy they can devote to tidying everything up while juggling the responsibilities of keeping a TV series afloat, and so, often moments they didn't want you to see end up being aired to millions.

That's absolutely the case with the following ten TV shows, each of which broadcast these fascinatingly bizarre, often hilariously sloppy moments to the world at large.

While many of them are bafflingly noticeable mistakes that surely caused a fair share of embarrassment to those in charge, others are more peculiar, unexpected flourishes which, whether intentional or not, they'd rather you not draw active attention to.

Many surely didn't notice these moments, especially on a first viewing, but they were soon enough immortalised by keen-eyed fans who took note and then made their findings go viral on social media.

The lesson here? If there's something showrunners don't want you to see, people will always find it eventually...

The polarising recent fourth season of True Detective invited controversy early on, when fans noticed that its second episode appeared to feature garish AI-generated art.

During the scene where Detective Navarro (Kali Reis) interviews a local miner in his apartment, the wall behind him features a poster for a metal band that looks suspiciously uncanny, as though it was created by AI during post-production. The lack of detail on the band's face and generic, scarcely comprehensible text - including the nonsense phrase "2st live" - point to AI assistance. 

Showrunner Issa López eventually chimed in on the matter on X, seeming to tacitly confirm that the image was indeed AI-created, though offering a bizarre, rather dubious explanation that it was made with self-aware artistic intent rather than laziness. 

López said:

"The idea is that it’s so sad up there [in Alaska] that some kid with AI made the posters for a loser metal festival for boomers."

Many felt that this was simply a case of López unconvincingly attempting to deflect criticism about the show's unsubtle use of AI tools, as proved an unfortunate distraction from the scene itself.