Kind of "Linear"

Here's another term you'll hear when you get notes - "This story is a bit linear."

Translation: It's too obvious, straightforward, on the nose.

A story requires that an inciting incident force the characters to form a plan, then that plan gets foiled, so they react and form a new plan. That plan usually fails too, and they react, reformulate, and attempt a new plan. This goes on for long enough to fill up an episode, then when just when things get really dire, the protagonist makes one last attempt and either succeeds or fails for good.

If someone tells you that your story is too linear, then that means things are going too well. Example: Jane Doe investigates a crime, spots that someone is lying, investigates the lie, finds the truth, confronts the liar, liar confesses, justice is served. Everyone's happy. That story is too linear.

Your protagonist must fail most of the time, until the very end of the episode. Complications must pile up. Reversals, conflicts, issues, difficulties must boggle and flummox her. If she's sunny and victorious the whole time, then it's not dramatic. In a comedy, it's not funny if everyone's happy onscreen.

Good TV does demand structure. But beware the linear plot.