Disney+ should have everything up through 5x09 most places in the world. only 4x01–5x09 in the US as far as I know, as Netflix US as of February has the first three seasons (presented sometimes as five seasons, sometimes as three seasons with two of them in halves) for the time being. I'm hedging because we have known since finding out S4 would be on Disney+ that Netflix wasn't keeping ML forever, and I recently heard Netflix was taking ML down at the end of January. as of two weeks ago when my rewatch hit S4, they hadn't yet, and I haven't heard that they have, and I am pretty sure they only rotate shows on the first of the month, but I have not checked this week. (this household hasn't got Disney+ anyway, though I fully expect S1–3 to appear on Disney+ US within minutes of their vanishing from Netflix US.)
for S3–5, trust production code episode order only. (here's S3's on the fandom-dot-com wiki, you can find the others from there, or it'll be in my meta when that goes up.) watching these seasons in either world-premiere order or any particular network's airing order is guaranteed to screw things up. for S1–2, I still think episode order matters a lot, but I am explaining my reasoning for episode order precisely because there is no official episode order and all the networks contradict each other. in particular, the showrunner's assertion that production code order is chronological order for the entire series is false for S2 (helpful when there's no clear plot reason to distinguish which of two episodes is earlier, but false), and for S1 it's really thoroughly false.
it is my strong opinion that first-watch order puts the earliest two chronological episodes after the rest of S1,as a flashback two-part season finale, and before all of S2 except the Christmas special (which kind of has to go two-thirds of the way into S1 because S1 starts when the school year does and S1 has a Valentine's episode). also that first-watch order includes the webisodes in several chunks between seasons in approximately the order aired, instead of slotted in individually where they fit chronologically. the Shanghai special goes somewhere between 3x14 and 3x20 (and I'm putting it between 3x14 and 3x15), even though it aired rather after the New York special (which is unambiguously between 3x26 and 4x01).
if you're cool with sailing the high seas, subs-de-ladybug-et-chat-noir is picking up where miraculousubs left off with English fansubs of the French dub; you'll need to join both Discords to get access to their episode download links and passwords. or miraculous.to has the entire series aired to date in English dub plus several other dubs; they pull the English fansubs when the English dub airs, and they only do English fansubs at all when the world premiere of the episode is not in English dub, but I have downloaded copies of their English fansubs on occasions when the world premiere was in French, plus a few stray English fansubs from YouTube of French dub episodes from other fansubbers. PM me if you want those.
5x11 has only aired in Brazilian Portuguese, but everything else through 5x12 has aired in English somewhere in the world. as have 5x16 and 5x18–20, but we do not speak of them until they can be watched in production code order without skipping unaired episodes. we also do not speak of the leaks, which include a shitton of S5 storyboards and the through-S5 series bible.
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Date: 2023-03-05 11:27 pm (UTC)for S3–5, trust production code episode order only. (here's S3's on the fandom-dot-com wiki, you can find the others from there, or it'll be in my meta when that goes up.) watching these seasons in either world-premiere order or any particular network's airing order is guaranteed to screw things up. for S1–2, I still think episode order matters a lot, but I am explaining my reasoning for episode order precisely because there is no official episode order and all the networks contradict each other. in particular, the showrunner's assertion that production code order is chronological order for the entire series is false for S2 (helpful when there's no clear plot reason to distinguish which of two episodes is earlier, but false), and for S1 it's really thoroughly false.
it is my strong opinion that first-watch order puts the earliest two chronological episodes after the rest of S1,as a flashback two-part season finale, and before all of S2 except the Christmas special (which kind of has to go two-thirds of the way into S1 because S1 starts when the school year does and S1 has a Valentine's episode). also that first-watch order includes the webisodes in several chunks between seasons in approximately the order aired, instead of slotted in individually where they fit chronologically. the Shanghai special goes somewhere between 3x14 and 3x20 (and I'm putting it between 3x14 and 3x15), even though it aired rather after the New York special (which is unambiguously between 3x26 and 4x01).
if you're cool with sailing the high seas,
5x11 has only aired in Brazilian Portuguese, but everything else through 5x12 has aired in English somewhere in the world. as have 5x16 and 5x18–20, but we do not speak of them until they can be watched in production code order without skipping unaired episodes. we also do not speak of the leaks, which include a shitton of S5 storyboards and the through-S5 series bible.