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Originally Posted by happy_terd
Seems like the kind of show where if you were to miss a single episode the following week you would be "lost." No pun intended.
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In some cases, missing an episode would leave you missing the motivation from a major character, gleaned from their "flashbacks"... but rarely would you be completely lost on the plot from missing one episode. And they were pretty good at using "previously on" opening material, gleaned from whatever episode might provide background on today's episode, so you had a pretty good idea what was going on even if you'd missed some material.
Also, the producers dealt with those who had missed episodes, or even entire seasons, by running "enhanced" rerun episodes... basically, pop-up informational text would appear periodically at the bottom of the screen, explaining why something on-screen was significant, or which past episode it might refer to. They sometimes provided confirmation of story elements you could only guess at without them.
Example, from Richard's backstory episode: