11:09 Dream was not the one who gave immortality to Hob. It was Dearh who granted it. Dream can't grant immortality. He specifically said so (while narrating) in Sleep of the Just. Dream says of Roderick Burgess that "he pleaded for gifts that are not mankind's to receive nor mine to give." All Death did in the White Horse pub was ask Dream: "Are you going to tell him, or should I?" And I don't think this implies in any way that Dream can grant immortality. Giving Hob immortality was Death's gift to Dream. Or, perhaps she gave him this ability this one time as a gift for the sake of their wager. But I don't think so.

I disagree with your opinion about episode 6. It was beautiful, heart warming and very interesting. It also slowed down the pace so the rose arc has a chance to develop without getting overshadowed by the first 5 episodes.

The Sound of her Wings was incoherent?! The first part is showing Dream how Death does her job and the Men Of Fortune (2nd half of the episode) showcases what it would be like when Death granted Hob Gadling the gift of immortality and he has to meet him every 100 years to see what has happened. In this, Dream learns what it's like to be human and no matter the ups and downs Hob goes through, he always manages to make it work. The first half shows Death doing her duties and sadness and the 2nd half showcases hope via Dream and Hobs meeting through the centuries.

"Men of Good Fortune" is one of my favorite stories. I liked how the story was adapted on the show.

Episode 5 and 6 are the most memorable for me. Ep 5 was shocking and horrifying. Ep 6 was heart-warming.

I think the writing was brilliant. Combining different short stories into one season and connecting these was well done.

Episode 6 was my favorite, and i felt combining the two stories worked great. Death brought up Hobbs, which reminded Dream he had missed his last meeting with Hobbs.

I found episode 6, The Sound of Her Wings, brilliant. It was beautiful and touching.

The Sound of Her Wings was my favorite episode of the season. I cried twice. It may have been inconsistent but I didn't think it felt tonally incoherent at all.

im glad they did not use any contacts on tom bcs his eyes gave life into the character and gave us so much information also i like how his eyes always glimmer and watery through most of the episodes because it shows how much hope he has. he is dream after all !

John Dee also lies and eventually kills Rosemary in the comics and the entire vibe was chill, whereas in the series the viba throughout the car ride was increasingly tense, and Rosemary is not killed.

I disagree with you on "The Sound of Her Wings." I found it beautiful and powerful.

Neil Gaiman said once he never thought the Sandman would would work as a movie or at all other than on paper. He also said he would rather it be not done at all than be done bad.

A fair rundown of the series and I agree on the whole… except for three major points 1 episode 6 was a solid and faithful adaptation and the two narratives fit each other perfectly as they both are central to the character Death. Not only that but among comic fans it is viewed as one of the best in the series so see thanks to the portrayal of Death as she perfectly embodied the maternal and empathic elements of the character 2 though correct regarding the licensing the inclusion of Johanna Constantine is NOT a gender swap as she is an actual character from the comic, John is her descendant and she does play a huge part in the Sandman mythos 3 the setup of full release isn’t all that taxing and if you like the show enough and as we are all familiar with binge watching it is easily possible to watch more than two or three episodes without a break

I binged the entire series in one day. loved it and can't wait until season 2

Lyta lacking here platinum hair is annoying but I still love the fact that Lyta was included was amazing!!!! John had to look bleach blonde, however it’s logical that Johanna was made so if and when John does appear I hope they use Matt Ryan. Plus usually apart from Ryan no other live action Constantine has been good, sorry but Keanus Constantine wasn’t blonde, or a working class person or Liverpool. I think we also forget that John does have a sister so it would make sense that other Constantines occultist members could exist. I love Gemma

I thought Netflix’s The Sandman was a surprisingly good adaptation. I still prefer the source material, the Audiobook from Audible and “DC Showcase: Death”, but still it was good as a show and as an adaptation. It was faithful for the most part (Considering the fact that Geiman was part of this), the cinematography was beautiful, the soundtrack was great, the special effects were pretty good (Some were really bad imo) and the majority of the actors did a nice job. Only big complaint is the camera format of the show. It looked too square for me. I don’t know how to explain this 😅 I’m kinda sad that this wasn’t a animated series instead tho. After watching that incredible Death animated short film (Which is amazing btw) made me imagine how the entire story would’ve looked like if it was animated. That would’ve been super cool. Still, i’m glad that we got this and i can’t wait for season 2 to come out 😊

I understand why such changes as were made, were made. One commentator on Twitter nailed it with her observation that the actors were cast for vibe, not appearance. Despite some significant changes, there were scenes and images enough that were so completely straight from the comic book that I often found myself tearing up at their realisation in three dimensions. Over and above the storytelling, this series is beautiful to watch. Even if I'd never read the comics, I would have been blown away by the incredible visuals. This series is nothing short of triumphant.

David Thewlis played John Dee in the series, a character in the comics known as Doctor Destiny. This character also appeared in the Animated TV show Justice League, epsiode "Only a Dream". Jed is observed watching Justice League in the hotel room durring the second last episode of Sandman. Bit of a conflict there.

I love the fact Tom looks like he’s constantly holding from back bursting into tears

I like it very much 🤘🏼hope we don’t have to wait 🤨10 years for a second season

I’m sorry did you say episode 6 was incoherent?? That was the best episode in the series !!

I really liked Sandman, the few things I did not like about it can be found in the Vortex story. I thought it had too many circumstances that could not be explained and too many "last second" events. It might follow the comic perfectly, I would not know, but the rest of the season was better imo and I would definetly watch season 2 and 3 as long as they are as good as season 1.

Johanna Constantine in the comics is the ancestor of John Constantine. Why she was in the present day instead of her actual place in the timeline, being 18th and 19th century england, is most likely since they couldn't get John, but from what i understand she isn't just a genderbent version of John, rather an ancestor in a different time than usual

People hated the "Token casting" of death. But she was by far my second most favorite character of the show.

Those first few episodes are so, so good. I love occult themed stuff and comics. This show is amazing. If you have not watched, you are really missing out!

I'm just gonna shout here because there are sooooo many fans that read the comics and knew what/who The Sandman was and/or DC comics. I ABSOLUTELY LOVING THE SANDMAN SO FAR. I AM ON EPISODE 5 NOW. I DID HAVE TO PAUSE IT FEW TIMES TO TAKE THE STORY IN WHILE I DID OTHER THINGS AROUND THE HOUSE. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT CASTING SO FAR. JUST BRILLIANT. STORY IS INCREDIBLY FLUID. LOVING IT A LOT. THANK YOU. *whisper* marvel fan but love this.

Cant wait for season 2, hope they do the cat story!

Out of all the comic adaptations I have watched (most of them) this is best one I have seen. It stays very close to the source material and the changes don't rip the comic fan out of the story. I thought the actor that played Dream nailed it and while I wish they had stuck with the eggshell white Death wearing all black the actress they chose did a good job of giving the feel of Death from the comic. There is an impish playfulness with the ability to be empathetic instantly. She did a great job portraying that feeling.

It would have been cool if when Dream's face was cast in shadows you'd see one little white pin prick in his eyes against inky black.

I didn’t like how they replaced John Constantine with Johana.

I bought the Sandman comics as they came out, not in anthology, individual comics. Unfortunately, I sold all my comics to fund a house move, which I regret. I remember a special issue with a glow in the dark cover. I have watched the first episode of Sandman on Netflix and will watch more tonight. I hope it does justice to the comic. Alan Moore always said comics and film are different mediums. He took no royalties from the films and gave them away. That is extreme, but he is the creator, so up to him. But after Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns, Sandman was the biggest seller. I hope it all goes well.

Absolutely disagree with your conclusions about episode 6. It was simply two episodes in one, two perfectly executed episodes at that.

I absolutely binged this series. For me, the real tell of a fantastic Netflix series is do I want to rewatch it. Sandman is rewatchable because it is so visually rich. It helps to not have concentrate on plot.

The BEST thing this series did, was throw us that bone-us episode, for those of us that binged it quickly and were immediately thirsty for more! I can’t wait for season two. I’m ready to see an “Endless” war.

I liked Johanna Constantine, because it makes it seem like this is taking place in a different universe. And that's why characters are different.

I absolutely adore Netflix for doing this, for wanting the author, for keeping close to the story but changing this that honestly feels just as right as the original.... Can't wait for season 2 ... just let us know which books it will incorporate.... that is my only plea, because I will wait till i put the chairs on the table, turn the lights out and lock the door behind me 😉

his "controlling" father? controlling? i would hate to see what the writer of this list considers to be abusive. does the kid have to start losing limbs before you consider it more abusive than controlling? lol.

Can be a 5 season series about to read the omnibus as well

Now they need to make Gaiman's inspiration for Sandman, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality.

I'm glad Sandman got a tv series adaptation, It was about time to adapt Sandman,I want Dream of Endless to appear in DC comics cartoons that would be cool

Sandman's pale complexion was based on Robert Smith's face 35 years ago.

My first dip into this was the Audio book #1 and I really enjoyed it. I then found out about this show and I watched all of it and then I bought the whole 5 Volumes of the books. It takes me a while to read things but volume is awesome. I’m glad I got into this.

American Gods was AMAZING!!! I personally dont feel like it failed. 😫 I thought casting also was absolutely amazing !

I watched and rewatched all ten episodes in two days. Lol!

Episode six was easily one of the best in the season though.

I thought episode 6 was fantastic! One of the best small screen experiences I’ve ever had!

I found Netflix's Sandman INCREDIBLY unsatisfying. But I couldn't figure out why I felt so unsatisfied until I went back and read the comics. What Netflix gave us is the same thing that Disney would give us if they adapted H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror". The comics are dark. Disturbingly dark. For me, watching this show was like biting into a delicious ribeye steak only to find out that its really just cotton candy in disguise.

I haven't read the comics, yet, but as a stand alone story I'm all in. The entire underlying concept is fantastic and it borrows from so many myths, legends and theological concepts, to form this surprisingly deep `examination` if you will, into human nature or perhaps the `human condition.` I was particularly intrigued with Desire and Despair being what appears to be a play off of Buddhist theology. "desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering." While suffering and despair are not exact synonyms, it's pretty close.That they are twins, is brilliant. Indicating they came into being at the same time. One, lying at the root of the other. I look forward to more seasons and I think I'll read the comics up to where this season ends so as not to spoil any future seasons of the Netflix series. It's also encouraging that this is all based on comics because even if Netflix cancels this, I can still read the story.

It was an "ok" adaptation for me. The only thing I had issue with is the distracting genderswaps and some of the episodes, namely the last 2.

omg love this series especially the dreamlord...desire is awesome totally great job in having the actors match the characters cannot wait for the next season!! i love the bird matthew so cute!!

The Sandman needs a "Cassern Sins" type animation. Perfect atmosphere

Episode 5, wherein Dream and Death have an prolonged, insightful, Well acted, well edited, well written, time on screen is profoundly well done. Furthermore, this so-called review does nothing to explain why this episode was particularly weak or somehow degenerate to the other episodes. It’s interesting, when one looks to other sources the episode that this reviewer claims is the weakest is often seen as one of the strongest. Therefore, I must wonder what the real reason the claim of episode five being degenerate might be? Might there be some deviation from the source material involving Death that this reviewer just can’t seem to stomach? Sad and inaccurate review of a profoundly well done and well written story.

I hope the show doesn’t try and link Sandman universe with the wider dc universe. I think it works better isolated from the traditional super hero stuff.

My thoughts watching Sandman: DUDE STOP PUCKERING YOUR LIPS

Am I mistaken or was it not death that gave gadlin immortality and not dream?

episode 6 is my favorite episodes 7-10 were good but a lil preachy and honestly wasn’t a fan of the vortex she just didn’t seem like the right casting choice and wasn’t a fan of the acting but overall looking forward to next season

There should be a video explaining each and every "horror host" characters of the DC Universe. They are: Cain and Able (The House of Mystery and The House of Secrets) The Witches Three (The Witching Hour) Destiny (The House of Secrets?) Lucien (The House of Secrets?) Death (skeletion soilder version from Wierd War Tales).

Awesome👍 i love the evolution of Dream

That is such a wildly hot take you snuck in there about episode 6 lol. It’s the highest rated episode of the series by far, and I think you’re the first person I’ve heard knock it like that.

Rose's actor lost me at the very end. But the first act of season 1 was very very good. Even if it was changed a bit.

I wasn't sure if Sandman was related to DC. Thought the Constantine, Astra, and Mazikeen connection was coincidental, like Christian mythology or something, mainly because I didn't think of Johanna being "female John."

Did they show Martain Manhunter and Mr Miracle?

Thanks. I need to find the comic book.

Funny enough episode 6 is my favorite

_"Far from flawless"_ is certainly a kind way to put it. I don't begrudge others enjoyment of it, but I found it terribly lackluster, and many of the changes outright distracting. _Sturrage_ had the right look for Morpheus, to be sure. And I hope non-readers found the show serviceable. Sadly, I didn't.

i keep hearing about lyta being ww daughter but I'm pretty sure that isnt the canon in the sandman universe. pretty sure that was a back story from decades before.

It was an amazing adaptation, the only thing I sort of disliked was using the same actress for Johanna Constantin twice - it felt confusing, got me wondering if Dream said he met modern day Joahnna's ancestors or Johanna was somehow made immortal by him, too.

The show would have been a marvel if it was animated

I think the differences made the series. Things that work in comics don't always work on film and otherwise. They used the medium well without changing the source material from the comics too much or unnecessary

The only thing I don't like is the whole rights about Constantine

I watched the series and it's pretty good. But after you think about it a bit afterwards it's pretty crazy how many fatal, easy to exploit weaknesses lord of dreams has. He can be summoned and trapped relatively easily, he is pretty inept without his tools that can be stolen. He can't even easily find those tools :D:D

Also you could not be more wrong in your estimation of the 6th episode. You'll note in IMDB it's one of the most highest rated episodes. So, sorry you failed to understand how beautifully moving it was, but clearly most of the audience did.

the main difference is that it's pretty much divorced from the dcu i also wouldve cast someone much younger for death

I have the first 9 comics original. Excellent.

since i didnt get to read the comic, it will just be Pure Fun.

Even before watching this I can tell you the title is OBVIOUS clickbait cuz as a huge fanatical fan of the comic I can assure you there are no "major" changes. All changes were either to edit out DC characters they didn't have the rights to, to make it more suitable for the screen, but mostly to EXPAND the storyline and add to the impact. This is the MOST true to the comic adaptation that has EVER been made, and trying to pretend otherwise is frankly doing a huge disservice to the industry and the fans.

So what you get to see here from the comics, the Netflix adaptation seems pretty tame in comparison. Oh, and why does he only use that weird helmet once in the series? (Would it be too easy to find certain people otherwise?).

Background song name?

Some interesting points, but also many significant assumptions that damage & interfere with the attempted criticism. It ends up feeling choppy, disjointed, & further from an usable point than the review it contains.

This show really has DIVERSITY slapped on its front

I really didn't like that they gave a crucial part of John Constantine's origin story to Johanna C., specifically the Astra incident wich is a very fundamental and personal event in John Constantine's background. They've missed the chance of making something original out of Johanna C. like making her the actual ancestor of John that is somehow still alive after hundreds of years and make her archetypically close to a classical victorian/high end detective as opposed to John's hard boiled/down in the rough detective archetype. But nope they did a supergirl again and just basically turned her into a gender flipped John and thus a bad copy of both John and the real/original Johanna Constantine.

I'm bothered by a very intentional softening of the way much of the imprisonment in Sandman is shown. The specificity of the obvious references to drug addiction ruining a person and their life, as well as some of the more fantastic magic immagery is left out of the Constantine episode, and I'm sad about it. I think the extended fantasy exploration of what drug use has to do with the need for dreams and detachment from reality and the honest look at the havoc drugs can reek is really in need of the humane but unflinching look it gets in the comic book, so I wish the series had preserved more of that. It's part of a larger trend of a certain gritty representation being softened and removed. One of the visual themes in the comic book is seeing character after character emaciated and imprisoned in squalor by truly malicious people. Rachel (or the Constantine story), Jed, Calliope and Lita Hall (from the Hector and Lita Hall story) are all imprisoned or self-imprisoned in this way and all but Calliope are literally fleeing these destroyed real lives for better ones in their sleeping dreams. I think this emphasis on the contrast between the rand dreams of power and freedom people escape into and the daily neglect and abuse they may never escape as they dream is a dose of reality which is a shame to lose in The Sandman. Regardless of where they go with Lita and Rose Walker, I do kinda wish we'd met her like in the comics and that she'd woken up in the impoverished and forgotten state she did in the comics. In the comics, she is a bored housewife being kept by Hector in his world and only barely suspects something mst be off. The comment on the suburban American dream there is something I missed seeing explored in the show.

If you did every story it would be like supernatural, with 15 seasons. I would watch that but, yea it was real good. The potential to get it wrong was high.

The gender swapping and change in how I expected the characters to appear were too much for me too enjoy the series. I wanted to love this show too.

Where is John Constantine? :(

I cried after the Gilbert scene .

of the trillions of planets in the multiverse why specifically earth

First 6 episodes were fantastic...last 4 ...no so much

Excellent first season! One of best comic- to- film based series I have ever seen. I found the amount of male on male and female on female action a bit difficult to watch. There was just so much of it and I don't think that much was needed. I know it's a modern world with gender role mixing these days, but not all of us older people have caught up yet. The general Diversity of series is very interesting though. I loved listening to the sandman talk and find Lucienne and Matthew to be likeable characters . I look forward to seeing more of Desire and Death. It is interesting that Death is depicted very similar to the Death in Supernaturals. Who was called....Billy, if remember rightly. Mind you, I loved the more classic, pizza- loving Death that the brothers killed before Billy too. As for Sandman series.... I will have to go back and re- read the comics while waiting for more of the Netflix version. Definitely A+ so far.

What I don’t understand is the source material had a spin off about Lucifer moving to earth. That Lucifer got picked up by Netflix years ago but when they adapt this source material it’s from they chose to cast Lucifer Morningstar as Gwendolyn christie not the already established Tom Ellis?

Good news. Sandman is going for a 2nd season :D

As a fan of the graphic novels, I did like the series in general. However… strong mixed feelings about the casting. Some were great, but many were awful and made no sense.

These aren’t creative change’s they are budget and political changes.

Episode 6 was incoherent? Crudely mashed up? This was the point i checked out on the rest of the video. You're welcome to your opinion, but that episode was a damn masterpiece to me that perfectly juxtaposed two disparate tales and introduced my two favorite characters from the series. Not much need for me to sit through anything else here if your opening bid is to denigrate something I loved so much.

My fav ep is 24/7

In the comic, Sandman doesn't fight Lucyfer or eat Cain & Abel's pet. I didn't like the look of Death in the tv show. The comics have a ton more detail. I kind of like Joan Constantine.

Should have got Matt Ryan back as Constantine. then again that would have been a character they couldn't race, gender or make gay which they've done with everyone else in the show

This episode was stellar.

I thought Joanna Constantine was just an ancestor of John’s.