7/5/2023 0 Comments Book the sandman![]() His absence from the "Dreaming" realm causes chaos there and deaths and illness among the humans. At the start, Dream (sometimes called Morpheus) is captured by a lucky human sorcerer (Charles Dance), imprisoned and silent in the waking world for over a century. He's among a family of anthropomorphic concepts, like Desire (Mason Alexander Park) and Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste, whose episode is the best thing about the series by far). "Sandman" is about 20 or so different things and characters, but it can be boiled down to this: Dream (Tom Sturridge) is the eponymous Sandman, who controls the dreams of humanity. More: Neil Gaiman previews fantasy world of Netflix's 'The Sandman' with new trailer at Comic-Con ![]() What is clear is that fans of the comics are likely to be disappointed, and first-timers are likely to be confused and put off. Whether that's because the source material is simply too hard to adapt or because this adaptation got it wrong is unclear. ![]() The series is a pile of stories and moods randomly tossed on top of each other. ![]() The stories that make up the comic-book epic are sewn together haphazardly and confusingly, never building to discernible arcs and not even broken down into interesting stand-alone episodes. Excruciatingly slow and dull if not outright boring, "Sandman" is a perplexing failure. ![]()
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