Episodic

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–adjective 

1. pertaining to 

or 

of the nature of an episode.  



2. divided into separate or tenuously related parts or sections; loosely connected: an episodic [novel]. 

3. occurring sporadically or incidentally.  



Also, episodical.



—Synonyms

 2. rambling, wandering, digressive.





　

Never truly committed to anything, Accio basically floats around, following at a distance Manrico's forays into more radical politics while [harboring] a [crush] on his brother's girl, Francesca (Diane Fleri). 



Hereon, the script becomes more episodic, with an undefined sense of 



the passing of time and characters, such as sister Violetta (Alba Rohrwacher) and their materfamilias (家庭主婦) (the superb Angela Finocchiaro, 



making every scene her own).





see digressive



tenuous 

tenacious



sporadic irregular, occasional

inadvertent unintentional, heedless

oblique neither perpendicular nor parallel →indirect 

ulterior concealed, future



dissolute (licentious)

desultory (random)



matron 









　

The annotated family album as social history, 

or vice versa, 

The Best of Youth is another [thick spine] on the top [shelf] of Italian cine-novels. 



Covering nearly 40 years in a remarkably compact six hours, Marco Tullio Giordana's fleet-footed marathon seeks a country's whole equation among the intellectual middle-class Caratis of Rome while keeping [to] the tempos of family routine and reunion. Showing at Film Forum in two parts, 



the movie has the addictive episodic [intimacy] of great TV. 



(Indeed, it was originally intended for the small screen: The state network RAI commissioned The Best of Youth, rejected the final product as too rarefied, then changed its mind after the film won plaudits at Cannes in 2003.)