Both would be understood and are roughly interchangeable.
"Sequential" feels more appropriate to me for the task runner scenario where we wait for one task to finish before running the next.
"Series" suggests a kind of concurrency to me because of the electrical circuit context, where the outputs of one are flowing into the next, but both are running concurrently. Processes that are Unix piped into each other would be another thing that feels more like a "series" than a "sequence".
"Sequential" feels more appropriate to me for the task runner scenario where we wait for one task to finish before running the next.
"Series" suggests a kind of concurrency to me because of the electrical circuit context, where the outputs of one are flowing into the next, but both are running concurrently. Processes that are Unix piped into each other would be another thing that feels more like a "series" than a "sequence".