The Bottle Epsemester

A bottle episode is a phrase that designates a production reality of TV in an earlier era but we still use it because the form to pull us back to what we're just talking about. It occurs on TV when you run out of money so it used to be I think TV shows are funded like more evenly now and there's more money available. Game of Thrones episodes cost over two million $2 million per episode before they were able to do whatever they wanted for their season finale or sweeps week episode. The term "bottle episode" has no basis in fact but people believed it was true as long as serial television kept moving into prime time. One thing that kept serial television moving into prime