I assumed she would start season 5 that way but then she came out in EP1 with the long hair then bam, EP2 its a year later and Molly has short hair and everybody has evolved and its only discussed on the Wine Down after the show lol

>Not even "They shot it a few years ago and just used it now,"
>but more like when they were first planning season 4, they
>sketched it out that it would end after the college reunion,
>then got 10 episodes of material otherwise, and just decided
>to retool it as the Season 5 opener.
>
>That way, the season would have ended with Issa and Molly
>slowly working things out, Issa definitively breaking things
>off with Lawrence, etc. Then by the next season, it feels less
>weird that Molly has a new haircut and they're having sleep
>overs, and Issa doing big things.