Jul 24, 2026 · 26 min · 16 segments
Can’t make it to Broadway? *Hadestown: The Musical* has you covered. The film adaptation of the Tony-winning hit captures the musical retelling of the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. Fans can…
Linda HolmesHost
Margaret H. WillisonGuest
Glen WeldonHost
They are deeply impoverished, and Hades is preventing his free-spirited wife, Persephone, from bringing them sunlight and renewal.
Orpheus is obsessed with writing a song he thinks can bring back the world he and Eurydice knew, if only he can finish it.
But Eurydice falls into despair and is successfully tempted by Hades to leave him and travel to the underworld, where the dead can only labor forever, extracting coal and oil and other buried riches for Hades' benefit, but where Hades promises she will be provided for.
When Orpheus learns Eurydice is gone, he travels to Hadestown to try to rescue her.
They are deeply impoverished, and Hades is preventing his free-spirited wife, Persephone, from bringing them sunlight and renewal.
Orpheus is obsessed with writing a song he thinks can bring back the world he and Eurydice knew, if only he can finish it.
But Eurydice falls into despair and is successfully tempted by Hades to leave him and travel to the underworld, where the dead can only labor forever, extracting coal and oil and other buried riches for Hades' benefit, but where Hades promises she will be provided for.
When Orpheus learns Eurydice is gone, he travels to Hadestown to try to rescue her.
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Too Sad To Re-Watch
Linda explains myth's heartbreaking ending feels unbearable
Artist’s Costly Conviction
Margaret unpacks Orpheus as struggling artist
Not Feeling Reeve Carney
Margaret bluntly pans Reeve Carney's Orpheus portrayal
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