diff --git a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/collection.ts b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/collection.ts
index b93c8b5a..063bcc81 100644
--- a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/collection.ts
+++ b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/collection.ts
@@ -73,9 +73,10 @@ export const insertCollection = async (
 			}),
 		);
 		await flushImageQueue(tx, imgQueue, 100);
+		// we can't unnest values here because show translations contains arrays.
 		await tx
 			.insert(showTranslations)
-			.select(unnestValues(trans, showTranslations))
+			.values(trans)
 			.onConflictDoUpdate({
 				target: [showTranslations.pk, showTranslations.language],
 				set: conflictUpdateAllExcept(showTranslations, ["pk", "language"]),
diff --git a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts
index c6dcbc5c..34f8d1f1 100644
--- a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts
+++ b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/entries.ts
@@ -161,22 +161,22 @@ export const insertEntries = async (
 			.select(
 				db
 					.select({
-						entryPk: sql<number>`vids.entryPk`.as("entry"),
+						entryPk: sql<number>`vids."entryPk"`.as("entry"),
 						videoPk: videos.pk,
 						slug: computeVideoSlug(
-							sql`vids.entrySlug`,
-							sql`vids.needRendering`,
+							sql`vids."entrySlug"`,
+							sql`vids."needRendering"`,
 						),
 					})
 					.from(
 						unnest(vids, "vids", {
 							entryPk: "integer",
-							entrySlug: "string",
+							entrySlug: "varchar(255)",
 							needRendering: "boolean",
 							videoId: "uuid",
 						}),
 					)
-					.innerJoin(videos, eq(videos.id, sql`vids.videoId`)),
+					.innerJoin(videos, eq(videos.id, sql`vids."videoId"`)),
 			)
 			.onConflictDoNothing()
 			.returning({
diff --git a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/shows.ts b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/shows.ts
index 5bb23af6..cf59f9a0 100644
--- a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/shows.ts
+++ b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/shows.ts
@@ -93,9 +93,10 @@ export const insertShow = async (
 			}),
 		);
 		await flushImageQueue(tx, imgQueue, 200);
+		// we can't unnest values here because show translations contains arrays.
 		await tx
 			.insert(showTranslations)
-			.select(unnestValues(trans, showTranslations))
+			.values(trans)
 			.onConflictDoUpdate({
 				target: [showTranslations.pk, showTranslations.language],
 				set: conflictUpdateAllExcept(showTranslations, ["pk", "language"]),
diff --git a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/studios.ts b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/studios.ts
index c9f8f5dc..f15c4eb8 100644
--- a/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/studios.ts
+++ b/api/src/controllers/seed/insert/studios.ts
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ export const insertStudios = async (
 				db
 					.select({
 						showPk: sql`${showPk}`.as("showPk"),
-						studioPk: sql`v.studioPk`.as("studioPk"),
+						studioPk: sql`v."studioPk"`.as("studioPk"),
 					})
-					.from(sql`unnest(${sqlarr(ret.map((x) => x.pk))}) as v("studioPk")`),
+					.from(sql`unnest(${sqlarr(ret.map((x) => x.pk))}::integer[]) as v("studioPk")`),
 			)
 			.onConflictDoNothing();
 		return ret;
diff --git a/api/src/db/utils.ts b/api/src/db/utils.ts
index ab31b84c..e36da34a 100644
--- a/api/src/db/utils.ts
+++ b/api/src/db/utils.ts
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ export function conflictUpdateAllExcept<
 export function sqlarr(array: unknown[]): string {
 	return `{${array
 		.map((item) =>
-			!item || item === "null"
+			item === "null" || item === null || item === undefined
 				? "null"
 				: Array.isArray(item)
 					? sqlarr(item)
diff --git a/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts b/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts
index acaf6ff6..1a81d224 100644
--- a/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts
+++ b/api/tests/misc/images.test.ts
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ describe("images", () => {
 	});
 
 	it("Create a serie download images", async () => {
+		await db.delete(mqueue);
 		await createSerie(madeInAbyss);
 		const release = await processImages();
 		// remove notifications to prevent other images to be downloaded (do not curl 20000 images for nothing)
 		release();
-		await db.delete(mqueue);
 
 		const ret = await db.query.shows.findFirst({
 			where: eq(shows.slug, madeInAbyss.slug),
@@ -32,12 +32,17 @@ describe("images", () => {
 	});
 
 	it("Download 404 image", async () => {
+		await db.delete(mqueue);
+		const url404 =  "https://mockhttp.org/status/404";
 		const [ret, body] = await createMovie({
 			...dune,
 			translations: {
 				en: {
 					...dune.translations.en,
-					poster: "https://www.google.com/404",
+					poster: url404,
+					thumbnail: null,
+					banner: null,
+					logo: null,
 				},
 			},
 		});
@@ -46,12 +51,11 @@ describe("images", () => {
 		const release = await processImages();
 		// remove notifications to prevent other images to be downloaded (do not curl 20000 images for nothing)
 		release();
-		await db.delete(mqueue);
 
 		const failed = await db.query.mqueue.findFirst({
 			where: and(
 				eq(mqueue.kind, "image"),
-				eq(sql`${mqueue.message}->>'url'`, "https://www.google.com/404"),
+				eq(sql`${mqueue.message}->>'url'`, url404),
 			),
 		});
 		expect(failed!.attempt).toBe(5);