episodic

Media scholars call it episodic framing: a focus on individuals rather than systems.

And where the earlier shows, notwithstanding soap operatic long arcs, are fundamentally episodic, “Tony & Ziva” is a serial story, stretched over 10 episodes.

Would I prefer to watch them in an episodic procedural as father-daughter investigators solving crimes from week to week, or doing spy stuff, or cooking together?

But, in borrowing the familiar format of making-of documentaries, DVD bonus featurettes, even episodic reviews or recaps, they insist on a vision of television as an art worthy of discussion and dissection.

While the “Fargo” creator had already had success in taking a film and building it out for episodic storytelling, tackling such a beloved sci-fi franchise for this treatment still felt like a huge risk.