Netflix's Sandman lacks scope, and ultimately comes off as pretty silly when it fails to maintain a solid core of genuine human emotion. Every bit of momentum that the show builds up in those center episodes puts a greater emphasis on how the first episode and especially episodes 7-10 utterly fail. We need to see the consequences of an innocent character interacting with the ideas of a universe so beyond his control. That's why, perhaps, the performance of Thewlis pops so much. But in this Netflix adaptation, The Dreaming and Reality have no clear identities - just noisy cross-cutting between often drab actors performing rote functions. "the Sandman" is one if the most emotional, insightful, intelligent comics ever written, and it accomplishes so much by suggesting the fantastical in the mundane. ![]() And since little effort is placed on delineating the importance or role of Dream or The Dreaming (or for that matter, the identities of The Endless as characters or the function of their realms) the series comes off as dull and drab and dim-witted. These episodes - without the gravity of a gifted actor like David Thewlis - just sort of spiral into nonsense. ![]() The show gets busy - strangely more compacted- than even the 24 page comics they are adapted from. There is little connective tissue from Point A to Point Z, mostly because these episodes lack any real tone or nuance. ![]() If Sandman were doing it's job, episodes 7-10 would explain why we should care about Dream and The Dreaming, not alienate and confuse viewers that do not have an insight into where the epic Sandman storyline eventually ends up.
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