Even when a show begins life being popular, that doesn’t mean it stays stagnant. Casts can change. Sometimes characters leave, but other times characters show up and are added into the mix.

International Women’s Day is here, and the day is celebrated to commemorate the strength women show in their everyday lives.

but once in a while, they stop appearing with any explanation or acknowledgment whatsoever. Here are 23 TV shows with characters who inexplicably disappeared.

Audiences continue to live in the Golden Age of Television, and drama series like Severance and Succession remain some of the best shows of the 2020s so far.