{"id":2202568,"date":"2025-12-17T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2202568"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:30:17","slug":"the-12-unforgettable-tv-moments-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-12-unforgettable-tv-moments-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 unforgettable TV moments of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each year, television shows deliver memorable moments and scenes that get viewers talking, but 2025 felt particularly electric. Several series, delayed by the Hollywood strikes, made their long-awaited return, and new, exciting shows also made their debut. But it was also a year that saw newsmaking events unfold involving TV personalities \u2014 unprecedented is the appropriate term here.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s hard to capture every watercooler moment, here are some of the year\u2019s most unforgettable TV moments, according to Times staff.<\/p>\n

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Griffin Mill off his head in \u2018The Studio\u2019<\/h2>\n

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An extremely high Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston) in \u201cThe Studio.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The two-episode conclusion to Seth Rogen\u2019s cockeyed salute to Hollywood on Apple TV transports the entire cast to CinemaCon, a Las Vegas convention, where Continental Studios is scheduled to present its upcoming slate to an audience of theater owners. The news that the 100-year-old studio might be absorbed by Amazon \u2014 prescient shades of Warner Bros. and Netflix \u2014 threatens their jobs, a feeling amplified by a crippling over-consumption of drugs, intentional or inadvertent, and launches the Continental team into a farcical frenzy set at a Mack Sennett pace. The farceurs include Rogen, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, Catherine O\u2019Hara and, as themselves, Dave Franco and Zo\u00eb Kravitz; each is brilliant. But Bryan Cranston, as CEO Griffin Mill, in a performance entirely without vanity, is incomparably hilarious \u2014 blasted out of his mind, bodily askew, like a marionette with tangled strings, and utterly disheveled, discovered at the top of the final episode, high in a fountain in front of the Venetian Hotel, performing rude acts on the statues. I laughed all the way through. \u2014 Robert Lloyd<\/i><\/p>\n

The birth of a child on \u2018The Pitt\u2019<\/h2>\n

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The Noah Wyle-led HBO Max medical series<\/a> spent much of its first season establishing a realistic look at a hospital staff working a shift in the emergency department. And its medical procedures, which are often graphic, have been a key element. When it was time to depict a childbirth \u2014 standard fare in medical dramas \u2014 the drama brought a level of detail to the scene that made viewers feel like they were scrubbed in, assisting in the complicated birth. The story involved Natalie (Enuka Okuma), the birth mother, who was a surrogate for her best friend and his husband. According to an interview with Vulture<\/a>, a custom rig was used that included a gurney with a silicone prosthetic of a pregnant belly, legs and a vaginal canal anchored on top of it. Okuma, the actor playing the woman giving birth, sat in a chair directly behind the rig, her legs hidden by medical draping. That draping also hid two puppeteers, one who added blood and other fluids during the scene through a tubing system, while the other placed their arm inside the hollow belly to push the fake baby out of the vaginal canal. But it wasn\u2019t just the hyperrealism of the scene that made it so striking. It reminded us that pregnancy doesn\u2019t have one outcome; there are dangers in labor and delivery that are gruesome, scary and traumatic, even fatal. \u2014 Yvonne Villarreal<\/i><\/p>\n

The mental load on \u2018All Her Fault\u2019<\/h2>\n

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Jenny (Dakota Fanning), left, and Marissa (Sarah Snook) speaking for all tired moms in \u201cAll Her Fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The scathing second-shift commentary that laces this otherwise traditional crime-drama on Peacock made many of its a-ha moments go viral. But none are as powerful as the first episode, in which working moms Marissa (Sarah Snook) and Jenny (Dakota Fanning)<\/a> commiserate over the uneven division of parental labor. Jenny confesses to learning just enough sign language to swear at her husband to his face. \u201cI do it now when he tells me that I\u2019m \u2026 amazing,\u201d she says. \u201c\u2018I don\u2019t know how you do it all,\u2019\u201d Marissa mimics with a wry look. \u201c\u2018You\u2019re amazing.\u2019\u201d \u201cI\u2019m tired of being amazing,\u201d Jenny says. And a million \u201camazing\u201d mothers lifted their exhausted heads and cheered. \u2014 Mary McNamara<\/i><\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s return to \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019<\/h2>\n

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