Season 3 looks more consistent than S1 and S2. Episode 1 is not the only valuable one in whole season. The following episodes are pretty decent as well. Every detail about the choices that different figures made in such an end of world is impressive and worth to watch.
The pre/not-making of a painting. The painter, the artist, the bellmaker and other craftsman, and the filmmaker are all effectively auteur for certain type of work. That’s the allegory I got. However, I don’t think the non-historicising technique can afford the hyper-historicised story