The Beat with Ari Melber: 2025

2 episodes Premiered Jan 2, 2025 Updated Oct 12, 2026

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Season 9 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Beat with Ari Melber Season 8.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 9 Episodes

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Season 9: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S9·E1 Mytharc

Jan 2, 2025

Jan 2, 2025 · 60 min

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, January 2, and reports on the New Orleans truck attack, Congress and SCOTUS. Wendell Potter, Bill Kristol, Frank Figliuzzi and Cynt

S9·E89 Mytharc

Episode 89

Jun 13, 2025