![]() ![]() “The Sandman,” which runs a teaser-trailer after the first episode as if it knows the initial hour offers little reason to keep watching, comes across similarly empty - all promise, little payoff. ‘Succession’ Review: Episode 8 Makes Us Watch as the Poison Drips Throughĭesire is another character, by the way, played by Mason Alexander Park, but they’re less relevant to what happens here than as a tease for future seasons. His ambitions change as frequently as his established beliefs, seemingly steered more by the need to introduce Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie), Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), and Constantine (Jenna Coleman) than any consistent internal wants or desires. ![]() Dream himself (played by Tom Sturridge) is little more than a tour guide. ![]() Certain stories feel episodic, yet rarely fill an entire hour, while the ongoing plot - led by Dream, aka Morpheus, aka Master of Dreams, aka The Sandman - is scattered and shifting. Goyer and Allan Heinberg), is tasked with introducing the streaming service’s massive (though slightly shrinking) audience to its elaborate fantasy world, filled with mythical characters who rule and roam their given realms yet live within a shared, ever-expanding universe.Īs if edifying the masses about the secret significance of our slumber wasn’t tricky enough, the first season can’t settle on a simple structure. The Netflix series, based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning comic books and adapted by the author himself (alongside David S. Like an enormous hourglass with two wobbly ends, “ The Sandman” never finds its balance. ![]()
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