Parts, perhaps.
I do like the reveal that Bench Aaron is listening to recordings from another timeline. So I don't know if that's something that we needed to see play out instead of being hidden. There were plenty of hints along the way.
Re-doing the party was a bit messy, since we never really got how it went down with Aaron solo and then again later with Abe and Aaron. The whole "recyclable" boxes comment doesn't really explain how they do this without creating new duplicates every time they do a re-do. Just some diagrams comparing what happens when you wait for your past self to use the box versus you using the box over again would have helped. Timecrimes vs. Groundhog Day.
And, of course, the Granger Incident... but I kinda love that it's an open-ended mystery on what happened. It adds a good creepy layer to the existence of this technology, that you literally don't know what the future will bring.
Lastly, the narration... who's calling who? It was a needless mystery that certainly could have been helped by revealing at some point that it's Aaron 2 calling Abe 1 or something. Just so we know how he knows what he knows and why he thinks it's important to tell someone. What impact does the call have? Is it how Abe makes the big boxes in the first place (paradox)? I don't see the need for the narration to be so mysterious, compared to the Granger incident.
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