While genres implicitly rely on an audience's interest in and familiarity with earlier movies of a certain kind, the serial is a type of movie that explicitly requires an audience to return episode after episode.
For its returning episode in March, "Scandal" drew 119,000 tweets, beating longtime Twitter favorite "American Idol" by almost 80,000.
In many ways, "Glee's" return episode, "Yes/No," was all about growing pains and life lessons.
With extra-legal activity percolating, and the fragrant aroma of payback always wafting somewhere, it's no surprise the first returning episode is subtly titled "Death Will Have His Day".
For some awful reason, Faye Resnick returned this episode and basically crashed Lisa's tea party.
House of Cards season 2 was received even better than the first, while Game of Thrones return episode "Two Swords" seem to go down well with fans.
It is entirely in keeping with the show's seditious spirit that all the triumphs and happy endings that closed the midseason finale in December are upended in this week's return episode.
Her return episode aired in April 1997.
ABC started releasing clips and footage from the Feb. 27 return episode, "Ride, Sally, Ride," and it looks bonkers.
She received an apology from her bosses and returned to the program; her return episode became memorable for her brief monologue to the audience about respect in the workplace.
