'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' Is Low-Risk, Low-Reward │ Exclaim!
The concept of the "bottle episode" dates back to the 1960s when Leslie Stevens, creator of The Twilight Zone-esque television show The Outer Limits, coined the phrase to mean an episode of television made at a very low cost, like pulling a show out of a genie's bottle. The idea is to sacrifice the budget of one episode in order to allocate the savings toward another episode. Because of this, bottle episodes tend to be self-contained stories with no impact on the primary arc of a season of telev...
