Interesting take on the power of episodes as a next-generation text format. It comes from the reliably interesting Storythings. Although it glides too easily over the important differences between serial and episodic fiction, it asks an important question. Could episodes in text be quietly emerging as a rival to the bitesize stream?
https://medium.com/storythings-ltd/the-future-of-medium-should-be-episodic-91a29467a14a#.e0e6kqx8e