The Art of Bottle Episodes

TV trope is characters being locked into some, uh, setting for one reason or another. It's because why you don't have money to build new sets. You can't really get guest actors. All these things, the, the goal as a, um, as TV tropes put it is to take up as little money as possible. But this doesn't really get into what is aesthetically important or even philosophically and existentially like at stake in these episodes. More recently TV shows have been choosing to do, um, bottle episodes. We're going to talk about that here.