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
  • Hinchey believed that the episodic format was primed for the big screen.
    Michael Waters, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • There has been no Back episodic order for that show yet.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The video is shot in an episodic manner, though the brand has yet to reveal quite how many episodes there will be.
    Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 18 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Strikes were common and there were episodic shortages of sundry items.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Some lives have a long story arc, and others are episodic.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • Yet the spare and episodic encounters do take us to some tender places.
    Alex Gilvarry, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Robinson: [laughs] Is the show structured as episodic, or is there one long mystery?
    Chris Barton, latimes.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The leap seems both unexplained and now inevitable, with the book’s episodic form letting Coates gloss over such gaps.
    Kevin Young, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Day-to-day episodic updates on social media helped to fill that void.
    Maddie Mortell, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The new drugs are for patients with episodic or chronic migraines.
    Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • From Bridgerton to Outlander to The Americans, the country's horny id has gone episodic.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The annual event is held in honor of the writers of the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the authors of the works on which they are based.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Spivak is being promoted from co-lead of Sony’s North American distribution group, which manages post-theatrical distribution of features and episodic programming in the region.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 19 Feb. 2025

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