Month: Oct 2022

The Sandman

Neil Gaimen’s The Sandman has finally made it to screen! But is it such stuff as dreams are made of?

What’s The Show? The Sandman

What’s It All About, JG? Well, other than the decades-long attempts to actually get the damned thing on screen at all, its mostly about Dream of the Endless, or Morpheus, who is captured and imprisoned by a cabal of occultists actually trying to snare Death. Trapped for a hundred years, the Dreaming – Morpheus’s realm – deteriorates, affecting the waking world. Eventually gaining his freedom, Morpheus attempts to rebuild his realm while trying to understand his place in a world that hasn’t known him for a century. We also get to meet various members of his Family, the Endless, and their shenanigans, and also the Corinthian, a dream that was made to be the ultimate nightmare and has escaped into the waking world.

*Note: This article was written before the allegations against Gaimen came out. While I’m not revising the text of what I wrote here – because it’s an accurate reflection of what I though at the time this season was released – neither will I be covering any more of it, nor anything else Gaimen related ever for any reason. Sorry if you were dying to know what I thought of Good Omens (it’s… OK).

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