Simon Racioppa(showrunner and executive producer) said this about the first 4 episodes “Hopefully, they make you think for the next few weeks or… months… to just make you reflect on it, so that you don’t just forget it. That’s what I’m hoping people will take back.”
Maybe it will be longer than expected because they want to add more to it? There have been a ton of complaints regarding some of the fights that happened so far in s2