Wild Palms/YMMV

"Coty (to Josie): "When you, your pulse never rose above normal. We're alike in that way, but my crimes will be grander, I assure you. One day I will put out the sun, and make bare every womb that ever was.""
 * Adaptation Displacement: Though the series is not well-known today, even lesser-known is the serial comic by Bruce Wagner (who wrote both the comic and the TV series).
 * Complete Monster: Josie and Coty are both pretty horrifying.

"Kreutzer: "Harry! You're gonna make me fall in love with you!""
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Original soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto and a lot of fine retro music.
 * Ho Yay: Harry and Kreutzer. Lampshaded numerous times.


 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: Wagner described the series as "a tone poem" - it doesn't have so much a plot as a series of circumstances that characters are exposed to, interact with, and are shaped by.