It's bewildering that they spend a quarter of the time preaching about narrative standards, and then proceed to expose some of the most stupid sequences of events without the slightest degree of awareness.
That the purpose of the series is playful rather than introspective has always been explicit; there's nothing to be blamed there: the series seeks to entertain and that's what has confessed to us from the beginning. But the quality gap that separates the first season to what it offers now, it's hard to ignore.
Yes, it's a light Netflix thriller-drama, not a Charlie Kaufman film. But they should at least have the lucidity to refrain from giving "narrative lectures" through their characters if they themselves inhabit a universe that is flooding in idiotic nonsense.
I still like its first season; as an intent of a writer, I suppose it's only natural to be a sort of a guilty pleasure, but now it's starting to make me look at it with a bit of embarrassment.
PS: And just wait for the "You can't call the police... He always gets away with it". Sorry... WHAT????? That crap was hilarious.