How to Use episodic in a Sentence

episodic

adjective
  • This premise would, on its face, seem to lend itself well to episodic drama.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 16 Nov. 2021
  • This includes both films and episodic television series.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
  • These lessons might be filled with pain, but such as life, it’s not about chasing momentary, episodic and fleeting happiness.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Cue an episodic narrative in which bike and script alike run into sporadic patches of engine trouble.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Nov. 2021
  • There are many ways people end up getting their first breaks in television episodic directing, but there are three ways that, anecdotally, seem to be the most common.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • This instability suits the freewheeling, episodic structure, even if Gary wears out his welcome.
    New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Even a show that approaches its episodic run like an extra-long movie owes the audience a bit more momentum than this, especially when those installments roll out weekly.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
  • By turns grotesque, whimsical, brutal and poignant, this episodic tale is more consistently interesting than riveting.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
  • What has been like to work on that scale in episodic TV?
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • 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
  • Danny: For me, the difference from the movies is, this is episodic.
    Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The studios, with their streamers, have exploited their IPs more for episodic series (than feature film sequels.
    Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 8 July 2024

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