This is Us: The gigantic mistake that the producers overlooked and was discovered by the fans

One of the most successful series of recent years has been, without a doubt, this is us. Written by Dan Fogelmanthe story follows a family through the years and portrays their ups and downs as they grow and age.

Over the years it was out daily, it stayed at the top of the rankings of the most watched series; he also achieved several emmy awards for his outstanding performances and his original screenplay.

Filming on the NBC series has begun 2015 and premiered the following year and continued to be renewed for multiple seasons until its end 2022. In that period of time that he has been working on the series, the coronavirus pandemicwhich caused new restrictions for work on film sets.

This had consequences for the number of people entering the studio and delayed production times, which caused a error during a scene in particular.

Likewise, big Hollywood productions have had mistakes like this too; some examples can be seen in movies like Pretty Woman OR Pirates of the Caribbean.

The mistake in This is Us the creators had to admit

During the broadcast of an episode on November 17, 2020, several users commented on social networks about a mistake which they detected, during a scene starring the character of Kate (Hanna Zeile).

Kate worries about the possibility of it pregnant whose mate he was Sign. That’s why she decides to take a pregnancy test to confirm it. Everything feels natural throughout the scene, until the camera shows the test up close. Her box clearly reads “ovulation test“.

While this was clearly a mistake, some fans of the series have tried to justify itclaiming Kate just wanted to know if she could get pregnant with Marc if they had sex during those days.

To avoid confusion on the matter, some producers of the series have come out to speak in different media outlets to clarify the situation. He executive producer Isaac Aptaker He mentioned the mistake in an interview with US outlet Entertainment Weekly: “As soon as we saw that people were misinterpreting it, we got concerned. So let’s face it: that I thought it was a pregnancy test“.

On the other hand, he ensured that despite the large number of people who worked on the assembly islands, they were worn out due to the working conditions imposed by the pandemic that bypassed this error.

another manufacturer, Elizabeth Bergerargued that it is an error totally related to the problems that the restrictions due to the pandemic: “Normally we are all on an island with giant monitors. And with this mistake we all said to each other ‘ah, if it was there someone would have seen it'”.