This might indicate a loose, episodic structure, rather than a unified narrative.

Its episodic structure reflects the succession of events in Faust's life.

The genre's episodic structure, embrace of popular culture and movement inspired by life have become mainstream.

This descent - more like a free fall really - is portrayed in an episodic structure that skips through time.

Its episodic structure and mixture of narrative voices should have tossed up a few red flags.

Birdsong has an episodic structure which moves between three different periods of time before, during and after the war.

To some extent, this episodic structure is a flaw.

But the episodic structure, difficult to market theatrically, is so natural to television that the film may play better here than it would have on screen.

Refn described the screenplay as having a non-traditional, episodic structure.

Its episodic structure, however, does not translate easily into cinematic storytelling.