Orpheus Looks Back at Eurydice

ORPHEUS EURYDICE Don’t worry, Eurydice. I’ll guide you out of the underworld. But you won’t look at me, right?

A three-panel parody shows Orpheus promising to guide Eurydice out of the underworld, while she asks him not to look back at her. The final close-up captures his suspicious, doomed expression, referencing the Greek myth’s rule that Orpheus must not turn around before they escape. It is used as a reaction to situations where someone makes a promise but clearly cannot resist breaking the condition.

• @itvbia / 13873 2021-06-14