Mad Men’s “The Suitcase” is a close second (it’s my wife’s pick). Bottle episodes often feature one location and a limited cast to cut costs, but shows from The Sopranos to Breaking Bad made the most of them. It’s so bleak, but so well-written by Tom Fontana. In the end, they don’t get the confession. Nya is hoping to see at least one more penis in her life after. Without it, you look in the mirror, and all you see is an amateur.” 18 hours ago &0183 &32 Soon, Carrie, Nya, and Seema have plans to go to an upscale hotel bar to pick up guys with the money to stay in a fancy hotel room. It scares you cause it’s powerful and it makes you capable of doing anything. Breaking Bad Season 3, Episode 10: Fly (2010) If the teaser for Breaking Bad’s final season which premieres on AMC on Sundayis any indication of its pace, you’re going to want to bring. He had some amazing monologues, like “You got your dark side, and it terrifies you, and it frightens you. Gunn passed away soon after the episode aired. There’s not enough evidence to arrest him for the crime, and they’re going to have to release him if they can’t get a confession. My pick is “Three Men and Adena,” from Season 1 of Homicide: Life in the Street, where Pembleton (Andre Braugher) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor), who have only recently become partners in the Homicide detective division of the Baltimore police department, spent pretty much the entire episode just in the interrogation room trying to break Risley Tucker (Moses Gunn) and get him to confess to killing a young girl, Adena Watson. Dramas and sitcoms tend to approach bottle episodes differently, so I’m going to specify just dramas this time out, and I’ll do sitcoms in the future. LOTS of great episodes have been bottle episodes, as it often requires the writers to step up their game in a big way. These episodes have also been able to be used to be almost like mini-stage plays, since your set is essentially just a stage in this instance. The idea came about from the past of TV when, to save money, shows would do episodes with less sets and less extraneous cast members, so they could cut costs down. Appropriately titled Yuki, the bottle episode pulls back the curtain on the matriarch of the family, showing her doing what Asian moms do best: soaking in bathtubs, bingeing K-dramas. I might later revisit the theme for a future Drawing Crazy Patterns or Top Five.īottle episodes are episodes that, FOR THE MOST PART, take place in a confined space (exceptions are made for, like, driving to and from a place and stuff like that). Pop Culture Theme Time is a feature where I put a question to you to see what you think about a particular theme. The most familiar definition of the term bottle episode is an episode of TV that takes place in one confined place with a small cast and few or no guest stars. Today, I want to know what you think is the all-time best “bottle episode” of a TV drama.
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