I started from and finished the second season of "Vice Principals" and sort of felt like that too.

Years earlier I had watched s01e01 and still remembered the characters and main plot points, so I started s01e02, or so I thought... I thought it was bold of them to reference so many past events, really built their character well, as well as dropping the viewer in certain conflits without proper context.

Only after finishing the season (episodes autoplayed and this was before HBO Max, either they didn't display season number or I didn't realize) and was sent to the menu did I notice that by default they always feature the latest season. It think that's terrible UI.

On other instances I've fell for the same but realized within 5 minutes.