Yes but even in most video games, when you respawn you don’t have to start from the beginning each time. You start from where you die or a save point.

I guess what I am noticing in these shows is that you die or go out and then come back again and do the same things again. And it loops ad finitum.

Not really death but going in and out of Lumen kind of resets things and they have to figure their way out. It seems similar.