According to Lena Dunham, she considers this episode a "short-film epilogue" while the preceding episode, Goodbye Tour (2017) is "the more traditional [series] finale".
Director Jenni Konner stated that the series was intended to end focused on Hannah and Marnie's relationship, stating, "We always said Marnie and Hannah were the true love story of the show".
Series finale of the show.
The omission of the characters played by Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet was intentional, as it was felt both that their stories had been fully concluded in the penultimate episode of the series, and their non-presence in the series finale would 100% establish that they were no longer part of either Hannah or Marnie's lives.