The flaw (I think) is the fewer-but-longer episode structure of this season, which I don't think suits TV as a medium. Making the episodes longer doesn't change the fact that the audience processes the plot episode by episode, which means you can't do too much at once without jarring the audience. As opposed to films say, where the audience are fine with a character making huge shifts over the course of an hour or so.
For example, last week's episode was basically two short ones jammed together in terms of Dany's character development. In the first half we see her increasing paranoia, in the second we see her grief. If those exact same beats had been done across two episodes it would have seemed more natural, despite being the same basic developments.