No, it wasn't my mistake. That's what I assumed at first and went back to the row of episodes. I checked over and over, but it was always the same. Like an episode (or perhaps some key scenes) was definitely missing. The synopsis it showed for S3 ep8 had a description of everything I had seen in that episode, and it said "Season finale". The next box (episode) in the row was ID'd as S4 ep1 and said "Season premiere". It had a synopsis for things I saw before I stopped it playing to see if I could figure out what had gone wrong. The rest of synopsis contained plot descriptions that would only make sense if I had missed the last episode. At the of the S3 finale, I saw Sean and Bev about to board a plane to the UK when Sean's cell starts ringing. He looks at the ID and tells Bev the area code digits are for LA. Bev says, "Don't answer it, don't answer it!" and that's the end.
So I play the Season 4 premiere over again and it's the same as what I saw before. The "previously" scenes were clips of scenes I had not viewed in the last episode. The scenes suggest the Salad guy goes postal when he finds out Matt was poached by the other network for the show the Lincoln's sleazy ex assistant is making. So he decides to bring "Pucks" back, forcing Matt to give up the new show to fulfill his contract obligations. The scene also hinted Castor was gone, but I hadn't seen anything in the last episode I saw that would explain his exit. I saw Sean and Bev saying "Oh *beep* and one of Matt getting a phone call, then saying the same thing.
I decided to watch the new episode to see if I remembered right. It starts with Sean and Bev arriving at the studio, seeing Morning pull into her parking space and she talks to the Luncolns for a minute. Then they show them going into the studio and return to their office, with the same ditzy, no-use assistant. The phone rings and the idiot doesn't answer it. The scummy agent who is always walking on her treadmill and asks if they got her flowers. They don't see any flowers. They yell out to the ditzy assistant and she doesn't know about the flowers at first, but then she remembers. I see Carol at a restaurant with the Salad guy. She's lobbying for the exec job she turned down previously, saying it was a mistake. But the Salad guy totally ignores what she said and starts talking about how they want Helen Bash. It goes on from there, with scenes that only make sense if I saw scenes that explain them....only, I didn't see any! I went through episode and played the next one to see if there was any chance it would be the missing episode, but no it wasn't. It just picked up from where the previous episode had left off.
It's bizarre!
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