What continues to fascinate me is how they managed to portray the relationship between an artist and his art/muse so subtly: how genius more or less possesses a man when it demands to be realised. I mean this could have been cartoonishly literal in less capable hands and yet their interpretation is almost profound.
It also reminds me in a way of their Hitchcock FD where the director had a somewhat similar relationship with the "Hitchcock blonde" (another uncontrollable force? ), not the same thing by far, but a similar type of dynamic by a creator and that which can barely be controlled or even understood.
Paul here tries to grasp at his muse a lot during the program and I particularly like that part where he goes slightly mad (twizzles with the hands around his head) while his muse just follows freely and unperturbedly, alive and generous. It's all very interesting. I don't know how they were able to find the right tone, I think this program was a huge risk.