Written by Shadi Petosky
Directed by Jamie Childs
Dream: "You've made your choice. Just as your life is your own, so too is your death. Farewell my son, we shall not meet again."
Orpheus: "Please kill me."
Well, this was even more brutal than the previous episode. I mean, there's three big stories here and they all connected rather well to each other. Let's focus on the big one first.
First of all, there was introduction of Dream and Calliope's son, Orpheus (Ruari O'Connor). He's been having sone dreams of future events that he's chosen to ignore. Mostly because he's been distracted by his upcoming nuptials to Eurydice (Ella Rumpf) to focus on the grave warning.
The wedding almost went without a hitch. All of the Endless attended and offered nice platitudes for the happy couple, except for Destiny. Then the death of Eurydice happened and it sent Orpheus on a very desperate path to get his beloved back.
Dream essentially warned Orpheus not to venture into the Underworld to retrieve his love but the latter persuaded Destruction and Death to help him. Orpheus persuaded Hades (Garry Cooper) and Persephone (Antonia Desplat) to give him back Eurydice. However as the story went, Orpheus couldn't follow the conditions to the letter, lost his head and Dream refused to kill him.
The Dream/Orpheus plot was by far the strongest but it was a strong plot in a sea of many. Dream realised his antics had gotten Wanda killed and he did a nice thing by making sure her grave was marked with her chosen name. Wanda in particular had a rather beautiful scene with Death that gave the character some closure.
As for Delirium, I think she forgave Dream rather too easily after the shit he pulled but I did love their scenes together and with Destiny. The latter was almost helpful in his own way with Dream and Delirium. He probably could've been a bit more helpful though.
- Delirium mentioned being married once when talking to Orpheus and Eurydice.
- What Orpheus lacks in the dancing department, he made up in the singing one. The Kindly Ones on the other didn't care for it.
- Dream and Calliope were effectively divorced in this episode. Dream also saw another side to Nada during one particular scene.
- Orpheus referred to all of his aunts and uncles by different names. Death's realm is also rather messy.
- What Wanda's family did to her was rather disrespectful to her. In the source material, Barbie had a role in this story but was absent from here.
- Chronology: There was a flashback between Draam and Destruction in 1675 London as well as Ancient Greece.
I absolutely loved The Song Of Orpheus. The longest episode of the season and the best one so far. Just brilliant from start to finish with a great guest performance from Ruari O'Connor to boot.
Rating: 9 out of 10
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