#serialized-storytelling

#serialized-storytelling

On the small screen, 2025 was all about money-the ostentatious peacocking of wealth on shows such as Sirens, And Just Like That, Selling Sunset, and With Love, Meghan; the spiraling production costs of episodes themselves; the politicized wrestling over which megacorporation will take over Warner Bros. Discovery and its TV arms, including HBO. CBS canceled The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, in what seemed to many critics like an obvious sop to the Trump administration, ahead of Paramount's $8 billion merger with the production company Skydance.

The series has kept each installment self-contained, but what occurs in one episode does have ramifications for the characters in subsequent episodes.