Open the season before choosing the next episode
Select the show, open its show page and press OK. Acorn’s Roku instructions then use the down arrow to reach the available seasons and episodes. Move left or right through the episodes in the season you actually watched.
This matters when a programme has several seasons with similar artwork. Write down the season and episode shown on the selected card before pressing Play. A familiar cover image or the total number of available seasons cannot identify the last scene you reached.
Read the marker as progress rather than a completion certificate
Acorn describes a red bar along the bottom of a thumbnail for an episode watched partly or fully. Inspect the selected episode’s progress information and description together. The service also describes resuming the chosen episode with the Play button.
Suppose the household stopped during an episode and another member later notices its red bar. Starting the next episode solely because of that colour can skip the unresolved ending. Open the marked episode first and inspect where playback resumes, keeping any personal note of the last scene separate from the app’s marker.
Keep saved choices separate from viewing evidence
My Watchlist records programmes you chose to save; it is not the same evidence as the progress shown on an individual episode. Recently Watched can help locate the series, but then check its actual season and episode before continuing.
If the resumed position seems wrong, record the episode identity and the position displayed on that Roku app. Describe whether the issue is an absent marker, an unexpected resume point or a different season opening. That is a more useful support report than saying the entire series disappeared, and it avoids changing a membership to solve a navigation problem.
Questions about this guide
Does a red bar mean the episode was completed?
Acorn says the marker covers partially as well as fully watched episodes.
Which control reaches the episode list?
Its Roku guide uses OK on the show page, then the down arrow to reach seasons and episodes.