Mister sandman, bring me a dream, and Netflix actually did just that. Morpheus of the endless have finally hit the silver screen and it is not a bad show. Which comes as a surprise in this day and age, when you consider how boring Hollywood is. Like all adaptations minor changes had to be made, but sandman is a fairly melodramatic down to earth story. As grounded to earth an anthromophication of dreams can be, he does visit hell after all and his sister is Death. What I am getting at is that pretty much all the action on the screen is character interaction driven and over the top action scenes are few and far between. If you look away from people turning into pulp. A change however that some people will be all up in the gills about is how many characters have been switched around. Constantine as an example is now a woman, instead of a chain-smoking Irish bloke. Does not bother me one bit though. For one simple reason really, I was entertained and some scenes really tugged on the heart strings. I now know for a fact that I am not a heartless robot.
Now there are some negatives, there always is. One is the outfit on Lucifer, combined with the filter and some game looking wings, just looks bad aesthetically. Though that is my inner designer and cosplay enthusiast speaking. Instead of making the devil look impressive and otherworldly, they make Satan look like a power ranger villain.
Consider this part spoiler filled.
Sandman seems to really be about an immortal being removed from reality, trying to figure out feelings and what to do with his infinite existence. His existential crisis and story starts with him being captured by occult fascinated British nobles looking to bring the dead back, by summoning death. They do not succeed and Dreams tools get taken anyway, along with his freedom. Which leads into many small stories about the people possessing his tools and reality becoming just a bit more miserable because he is not doing his duty. That is the essential flow of the series, we follow Morpheus through many small stories that have him interact with all manner of beings, various times, not to mention places. Needless to say, it is a story that takes its time and is not for the impatient people out there. Which surprised me to be honest, because in recent years I have gotten less patient with time wasting media and bad adaptations.
