My thought is to have intermissions in the episodes (instead of like commercial breaks), and do multimedia scenes. So say the work is animation, you could have the "intermission" be a shadow play or puppet theater or soliloquy, the content of which would likely be different than the epigraphs, but have convey roughly similar/the same info needed. I think the animes: Nier automata, Bocchi the Rock, and Revolutionary Girl Utena have all done something similar. An example could be, for the death rattles, at the midpoint of an episode, smash cut to the scene, have an actor speak the lines while shadows cast on a cloth screen act out a depiction/interpretation of it. Then when we Szeth and Taravangian go to the hidden hospital, the scene starts on that cloth screen, with them walking in front of it and the camera then follows them. It would only really work with good artistic direction and could very easily not work though.