Plugin / feature to limit access to episodes to mimic weekly release of new episodes?

[johyphenel 1]

Looking for a plugin that does something similar to the following — I'll describe my use case below, and I have 2 top level questions:

• Does a plugin for this already exist?
• Do you know if building this type of plugin would be possible with the available APIs?

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My main goal here is to curb my binge watching, and bring back some of the fun and excitement of getting a new episode to watch every week. 

For me, given how addicted I can find myself to shows sometimes, I think I'd want this to be an actual restriction for the user (e.g. future episodes are either hidden or fail to play after the "available" episodes are used up). 

I use "available" here to mean the access limitation feature I'm describing, assume we're talking about a show where all episodes are already present locally and ready to watch from a technical standpoint. 

Rough behavior I'm after: 

• All shows have N episodes from the first season available
• For a given show, after the last available episode is watched, Y new episodes become available each week on a configurable day / time (for me, I'd be happy to set the same day/time for all shows as a default). Perhaps this could continue even if the new episodes aren't watched to build up a buffer, but I'd want to set a limit of how many episodes become available at any given time to prevent myself from having too many hours to binge at one time. 
• Once all available episodes are watched for a show, prevent playing newer episodes in the UI, maybe with some kind of warning.
• Allow this to be configured for all users, or per user, or perhaps with user exceptions (I think I want this on all users but 2 right now). 
• It could be nice to have the show removed from continue watching if there are no available episodes right now (and re added to continue watching once a new episode unlocks), but for me the access restriction matters more than the UI. 

Appreciate your help either tracking down a plugin for this, or assessing the feasibility of building one