ITunes lists TV episodes out of order

Two parts to this question. The picture above lists episodes for the show "Steven Universe". On the highlighted episode, "Political Power" should be listed before "Full Disclosure" but as you can see it's backwards. Normally I know this would be an issue of the episode tags being mislabled but since it's technically "one" episode (two 11-minute shorts aired together), I'm confused as to why it's backwards.
Also, why are the top episodes (Season 2) listed as "No Season" ? Is it because I bought a season pass for them and the season is still technically airing?
Any help or insight would be appreciated.

The iTunes Store isn't totally consistent when it comes to tag information, nor are the fields always set to give the best results possible in iTunes.
For your highlighted episode use Get Info to correct the title to reflect the order of the parts.
You can select all of the episodes of season 2, then use Get Info and set the season number to 2. This will cause the seasons to be listed in the correct order.
See also Re: seperate tv show in ipod.
tt2

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