The tumultuous relationship, supported by some of TV's most-memorable characters, garnered fans from across the country and laid the foundation for riveting episodes that redefined and meditated on death and the differences between being and being.
Yet the satisfactions were great: riveting episodes of flight, of cunning; the convincing commentary on adult behavior, watchful and insouciant; the authority of a child's voice in language cut for its renegade tongue and sharp intelligence.
HBO's artfully deranged miniseries "Sharp Objects" came to an end on Sunday night after eight riveting episodes full of crime, sweat and ghoulish familial relations. .
A similarly restrictive setup was exploited to perfection in "The Subway," a riveting 1997 episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street".
Worth enduring the cardboard sets and performances of the opening seasons and the Linda Thorson autumn years for the 50 riveting Rigg episodes between.
The Longest Shortest Time had a riveting, if wildly unappetizing episode on how people (like Kim Kardashian and Mad Men star January Jones) transform their placentas into pills so they can ingest them.
The decision to release him appeared to mark the end of an extraordinary episode that riveted Mr. Nastase's compatriots.
Depending on whom you follow, Twitter can reveal a nation riveted by the last episode of "Jersey Shore" or a short-form conclave of brilliance.
The episode has riveted the tech and media worlds, raising one of the most pressing questions that media organizations grapple with today: Do the old rules of journalism apply to Internet bloggers?
Or when people throughout the United States, watching at home on their isolated television screens, are riveted by the final episode of "Sex and the City," that helps bind us together.
