Is anyone else ever genuinely shocked when you find out you have an impact on someone's life? A coworker can be like "I've missed seeing you" and I'm just like "???? you?? missed me????? My presence has an effect on your daily experience???? i affect things??? What???"
Hadestown is awesome bc they know you know they know you know Orpheus will look back at the end so they hit you sideways with the metacommentary on the cyclical nature of myth and theatre performance, endlessly repeated and reinterpreted and retold. Just to keep you on your toes.
mamma mia is a masterpiece of a film for many reasons but turning “does your mother know” into a cougar anthem by christine baranski instead of a song from a man’s POV is actually so genius