Thank you for the reminder about sequential lineups; I remember reading that, now that you mention it.

I think that I have never seen a proper sequential lineup in a TV fiction. I have seen characters given books of photos from time to time, but as depicted on TV, with pages showing many photos at once, that's the same problem as a parallel lineup, mitigated only by having the whole book (or stack of books) to hunt for a "closest match." Hmmm. Yes, all the drama is lost; it works for a story as something to have the witness character do in the background while the detectives discuss something else in the foreground, not as any kind of climax.