What happens when every one of your emotional needs is met?

Not most of them.

All of them.

In this episode of Tale Oft Told, we explore Spike Jonze's Her through the lens of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. As Theodore falls in love with an artificial intelligence named Samantha, the film asks a question that feels even more relevant today than it did in 2013:

What happens when something becomes so good at validating us that we stop practicing the difficult art of being with other people?

From Greek mythology and Tibetan Tulpas to modern AI and online companionship, we examine loneliness, love, fantasy, and the strange ways technology is reshaping human connection.

Because perhaps the tragedy of Her isn't that Samantha leaves.

Perhaps the tragedy is that she could meet Theodore's needs  ...