When should I play the DLC episodes?

@THEOWENKILLER

It's not actually the full game. It says it when downloading, but its really only Episode 1 of 4. (Excluding the Extra Episodes DLC)

Which is kind of stupid for Microsoft to advertise it as a Full Game. Should say that it's Episode 1 as title before downloading.

This is just a thought and probably not the solution.

The first one I would recommend trying is like mentioned above, try uninstalling and reinstalling.

Sometimes with series like The Walking Dead. Life Is Strange etc..They can treat other episodes (IE: Episode 2, Episode 3) like DLC, and you have to have the first episode still installed to play the other episodes. Even if you have played the entire first
season. This happened to me when I installed Life Is Strange 2 Episode 2. The second episode worked the same way as DLC does so it wouldn't show up or play because I had deleted episode 1 after finishing it. It told me Episode 2 was installed and it took me
quite awhile to figure it out. Just thought I'd mention it.

When you download the DLC, do it from the game and when it's downloaded restart the game. It should be ok then. Happened with me with the same, but you can start the episode 5 with random characters with you.

when did they fix this tried 4 days ago to play tlad using my dlc and my brother using the episodes of liberty city disc

i found this that apprarntly is telltale games explaning the black screen but isnt the issue im having as i know im not skipping any episodes or anything

A small number of users have reported that they reach a permanent black screen while attempting to load their save or rewind to a previous episode. We have investigated this issue and determined that it can occur when trying to play an episode that does
not have any existing save data, but the episodes before and after it do. For example, If after playing through episode 3, a player skips to episode 5, plays to a save point, and then tries to start a game in episode 4 by pressing the Play button on the Episode
4 play screen , they will encounter a black screen.

To recover from this issue, locate an episode with save data and use the Rewind Menu to select a save point to load. The checkpoint should load and the next time the game saves, the black screen should no longer occur. Using the above example, there is no
Episode 4 save progress, and by rewinding into Episode 4 all progress in Episode 5 is lost. So the last Episode with existing save data is Episode 3.