The author said in an interview that it was a filter to get the public he wants for the series. No idea if that’s post-facto rationalization, though.
Anyway, Netflix changed their entire system so that they could order that one show differently. It’s the last episode there.










In the sense that “if you can’t stand this, you probably won’t like the rest of the show”.
What is clearly false, but that he intended it to be that way.