That ’The Sandman’ is so genuinely good sneaks up on you, writes stefabsky. And there’s a single, perfect episode that proves it.
fantastical, somewhat esoteric not-quite-superhero-comic not-quite-fantasy-storytend to languish in development hell—the creative purgatory for projects that are too weird to be massive hits, yet too good to just be left on the shelf. Chief among them is that these sorts of adaptations must be done "the right way," with actors and directors and writers who know just how to bend and mold the material from one medium into another.
The first half of the episode adapts the eighth issue of the comic, "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces Morpheus' sister Death as a cheery and striking woman clad in dark eyeliner, a black tank top, and silver ankh necklace. .
But before he can sink too deeply into his convictions of what should be and what shouldn't, the episode turns the tables on him. It skips ahead to Issue #13 of the comic, "Men of Good Fortune," in which the personification of dreams makes a friend. Morpheus and Death enter a tavern somewhere in Britain in the Middle Ages, and overhear a man named Hob Gadling bragging to his friends about his decision to never die. He will simply keep living, he says, and Morpheus and Death, watching from the shadows, figure, why not? Morpheus, keen to find out if a human could grow tired of immortality, wagers with Hob that he'll meet him in that very same tavern in one hundred years.
Two of the strongest issues of the comic combine to form one fantastic hour of television, helped by the fact that both parts of this episode are the most faithful to the source material that this show gets. The first half turns an amorphous debate about the purpose of unseen forces into an intimate and comforting chat between two close siblings. The second is the best kind of Gaiman-esque storytelling, a bit of clever fantasy that feels as familiar as a children's fable.
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