How to Use episodic in a Sentence

episodic

adjective
  • What has been like to work on that scale in episodic TV?
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • The show features a string of guest stars who come aboard for episodic tales.
    J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The novel is episodic, with a tricky structure and a shambling kind of plot.
    The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
  • But the problem isn’t that The Last of Us is an episodic, monster-of-the-week adventure.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
  • To that end, the episodic cases aren’t compelling enough.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The Boys came out as a binge for season one but went episodic for season two.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Danny: For me, the difference from the movies is, this is episodic.
    Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
  • But at times the movie feels episodic: beached ships in clouded bottles.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This premise would, on its face, seem to lend itself well to episodic drama.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Some lives have a long story arc, and others are episodic.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • They’d be paid on an episodic basis for 24 episodes over a 40-week schedule.
    Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Goldman had to retool the script to an episodic format.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • But even there, the episodic storytelling helps, as the show rarely gets bogged down for long by angst or despair.
    Zack Handlen, Variety, 2 May 2022
  • Branton had never been this far north and, at first, the episodic fog surprised her.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Be sure to follow me on this blog for all my episodic TV reviews, game reviews and more.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • And there's the memory for the stuff that happens, the episodic memory.
    Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 3 May 2021
  • The episodic structure felt like a perfect fit to drop our EP with one episode per song and one music video per episode.
    Josh Chesler, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The episode that explored the aftermath won a WGA Award for episodic drama.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Day-to-day episodic updates on social media helped to fill that void.
    Maddie Mortell, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • From Bridgerton to Outlander to The Americans, the country's horny id has gone episodic.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The rhythms may be episodic, but the ambience could hardly be more Assayesque.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
  • The first three episodes of Season 3 drop on June 3rd with weekly episodic releases the next five weeks for a total of eight.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Like gallstone pain, the pain from kidney stones is often episodic and will come in waves, Dr. Brauning says.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 6 Sep. 2022
  • These tools work well for dealing with episodic attacks.
    Gina Neff rumman Chowdhury, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The movie’s worth it for Garbo alone, though its episodic nature gives the film a natural ceiling.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
  • That kind of episodic drama wasn’t a good fit for a single article, which would need to be short and focused.
    Amanda Taub, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But Slack is fleeting and episodic, designed to transact but not to capture.
    Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The ads will be shown in episodic fashion each Monday in November.
    Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Balancing that cinematic scale with the demands of an episodic format for Netflix pushed us to our limits.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Watch on Deadline As mentioned, this upward trend has continued, despite a drastic drop in episodic television production over the last year, as the industry has contracted in the wake of two strikes.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024

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