Examples
Bottle episodes from the Star Trek franchise are known for occasionally becoming among the most popular with fans. Prominent examples include "The Tholian Web", "Journey To Babel" and "Balance of Terror". The phenomenon has persisted to a lesser extent in contemporary incarnations, with "Duet" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) which has been celebrated by Startrek.com and Amazon.com among other sources as "rguably one of the best episodes of Deep Space Nine and a jewel in the entire Trek canon".
While attempted with the episode "4 Days Out" in the second Season of Breaking Bad, the Season 3 episode "Fly" only features the leading actors Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul (plus a few extras) and takes place almost exclusively in the secret laboratory they use to cook meth. Series creator Vince Gilligan has acknowledged this as a bottle episode, but also explained that the limited setting and cast allowed for a slower pace and deeper exploration of character traits and motives: "Even if financial realities didn't enter into it, I feel as a showrunner that there should be a certain shape and pace to each season, and the really high highs that you try to get to at the end of a season — the big dramatic moments of action and violence, the big operatic moments you're striving for — I don't think would land as hard if you didn't have the moments of quiet that came before them. The quiet episodes make the tenser, more dramatic episodes pop even more than they usually would just by their contrast."
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