With The Sandman’s first episode having introduced us to our protagonist and set the series’ overarching plot in motion, Imperfect Hosts is the first ‘regular’ episode of The Sandman. It also makes one thing very clear: there’s absolutely no such thing as a regular episode of Sandman. Morpheus has returned …
Read More »The Sandman season 1, episode 1 review, recap, and analysis: Sleep of the Just
The Sandman was never going to be an easy comic to adapt. Neil Gaiman’s masterpiece – and the saga remains, for this reviewer’s money, his finest work in any medium – is such a tangled knot of plot threads, stories within stories and allusions to literature, mythology, art, and other …
Read More »Neil Gaiman teases “magic” Sandman series on Netflix – exclusive new look
For The Sandman, patience is about to be rewarded. Netflix’s incoming TV adaptation sees the personification of Dream – AKA Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) – waiting a century to regain his kingdom after he’s captured by overreaching occultists. Offscreen, writer Neil Gaiman (Good Omens, American Gods) has waited 30-plus years for …
Read More »The Sandman gets a new trailer – and its coming to Netflix this August
The Sandman has a new trailer unveiled at Netflix’s Geeked Week, and it’s a moody, ominous look at the upcoming show. The series is an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic books, and the trailer sees Tom Sturridge’s Dream (AKA Morpheus) freed from what seems to be a lengthy imprisonment – …
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