Best TV factual errors of 2016

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Factual error: The judge requires £100,000 to be paid to the court in bail and Yvonne's husband later says he had to cash in bonds to get the money. In Britain, bail is not paid in advance. It is sufficient to prove that it is available if necessary and it is only required to be paid if the defendant later absconds.

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Chapter Seventy-Nine: Graduation - S5-E3

Factual error: Archie revealed that he joined the Army to avoid repeating his senior year and was shipping to Basic Combat Training the following morning. Prior to leaving he would need to wait for his background and medical checks to be completed (including getting a waiver for his dropped murder charge), which could take weeks. Also, the Army usually requires a diploma or GED to ship to basic. There were very brief periods of time the Army was accepting dropouts but it was not when this episode took place.

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Part 3 - S1-E3

Factual error: At the picnic, a woman says she is going to New York by train. It is 1828. Railway passenger service in the United States did not begin until 1830 and it would not be possible to travel from North Carolina to New York until some years after that.

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Savage Season - S1-E1

Factual error: When Hap goes to the grocery store to buy beer, it shows signs of a grocery store selling beer, liquor, cigs, milk and bread. This doesn't exist in Texas. Liquor is not sold in grocery stores. And liquor stores (only sell alcohol, no groceries) would close at 9 pm and this is after that since everyone was asleep.

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Cuarenta Minutos - S1-E2

Factual error: When they're traveling to the farm to rescue her friend, (when a drone is filming from above following the truck down the road) there is light snow on the ground. Throughout the series in different parts, when they speak they're blowing mist/fog from it being cold. It isn't cold, snowing or any fall leaves in Mexico. Nor do those things hardly ever occur in southern Texas either.

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