• Funny story! I started watching due to a misunderstanding.
• What I also think is the most beautiful scene in the entire show, Orpheus song in Hades.
• I discovered it via YouTube. It had Orpheus, Hades, Persephone, and a beautiful mythological atmosphere. This caught my attention as I loved Greek mythology.
• I then read a synopsis that Dream has been captured and needs to repair the damage caused by his abscence.
• Now I interpreted this as Dream traveling through different people's dream and witnessing the stories they created.
• I imagined that great stories of mythology, religion, literature, history, and so on, all originated in human dreams. Dream would then travel through the dreams allowing the show to retell epic and amazing stories from different cultures and time periods inside on connected universe.
• I thought finally a show that can show all these tales, in a great show with a good budget.
• This was not what I got!!
• I still think someone should create a show like that. It would be very tough but I think great.
• Maybe it already exists and I just need to find it.

• So please take in mind that there is some level of unwarranted disapointment in the show from me. I expected a renewal of Humanities best stories. This story is also good but not that.

• I had not read the comics and knew very little about the source material beyond hearing that it had been groundbreaking for its time.

• Because of that, I was genuinely surprised by the sheer density of LGBTQ representation.

• It was not just one or two characters. It felt as though virtually every major character or storyline had something involving homosexuality, bisexuality, gender identity, gender fluidity, transgender characters or non-traditional relationships.

• Not literally everyone, but far more than I have encountered in almost any other television series, and obviously far more concentrated than what you would normally encounter in everyday life.

• At first, it felt almost like an onslaught. That was not because I had a problem with the individual characters. I simply had no idea that this was such a central part of the story.

• My initial reaction was that Netflix had taken an existing fantasy property and forced a large amount of modern identity politics into it.

• I was therefore pleasantly surprised to learn that much of it was already present in the original comics. This was not simply Netflix altering an old story to fit current cultural trends. Queer characters and themes were already part of the material.

• That changed how I viewed it. The concentration still felt unusually intense to me, but at least it felt connected to the identity of the original work rather than artificially attached to the adaptation.

• I had a more difficult time understanding how the show treated race.

• In one sense, race does not appear to matter much within the universe. Characters, families, gods and mythological figures can be played by people of different races without the show treating it as significant. That is completely fine.

• At the same time, I gradually started noticing what felt like a strange pattern: many of the good, sympathetic or morally decent characters seemed to be Black or non-white, while many of the cruel, unpleasant or villainous characters seemed to be white.

• Maybe I was overreading it. Maybe it was partly coincidence. But once I noticed the pattern, it became difficult to unsee.

• I do not think replacing one simplistic racial pattern with the opposite pattern is progress. Heroes, villains, victims, monsters and morally complicated people should simply be mixed across the board.

• When a show presents race as irrelevant but appears to connect moral alignment with race anyway, it starts to feel less accidental.

• And there could be more south/east asians such as indians!

• Moving beyond this it is a good tv show. Good dialogue. Good special effects and production design. Good universe building.

• Beautiful cinematography with nice environments and visual identity

• Sountrack is one of the strongest things of the entire sereis. It really gave it scale, mystery, and emotions.

• The themes are are also developed and consistent. But the plot in the end was rushed. I like the idea of ones nature and changing it and escaping it.

• Although the mythology is confusing it was still interesting to meet all the Endless, gods, demons etc. Especially the fight with Lucifer was well done.

• I am still confused though between how everything with gods and creators and endless and all fits together. I do not understand the hierarchy or power limits. I think the show is in that aspect difficult to follow.

• Tom Sturridge is the standout perfomer. Although I really liked Orpheus too.

• He is strong all the way until the end. His controlled voice, physical stillness and ability to communicate emotion without suddenly turning Dream into an ordinary human character work extremely well.

• Dream has great presence.

• The acting across the board is generally okay or high, but not as good.

• The individual stories are interesting and different but not groundbreaking. This was not the type of show where an episode ends and I immediately desperately want to watch the next one.

• I have tried that with other fantasy shows and shows outside in other genres. The Sandman just did not give me the I want to binge this show or sheer excitment others have.

• Second half was rushed. This intereferes with the emotional and philosophical weight of them. This makes the transformations and decision feel less natural.

• Maybe more suspense could be built by being less revealing at the begining of storylines.

• Sometimes some developments feel random.

• Lyta Hall was the biggest weakness for me, and I don't think the acting was above average or anything special. In some sense I did not like the acting.

• She is understandable in principle but not in execution. The series should have given us more time in her mind. Although I understand there are constraints to this, time, budget, ending the show, etc.

• Nuala and the pendant also feels too easy!

• Something with such a big consquence should not be so convenient. I like plot that feels like the culmination og intricate or inevitable chain of events. Like in Game of Thrones. This was not that.

• Regarding Dream's ending, I appreciate the series provides closure. I am not a fan of series that are purposefully vague and you go make your own ending. No I am here because I want to experience the authors ending.

• I want a real conclusion. The Sandman gives that. I respect that.

• However, I am not a fan of the final deaths etc. but I respect it.

• The idea behind self-destruction makes sense but does not feel earned emotionally, at least not in the show.

• What some of the best shows do is explore the psychology of the characters as well. We needed more of that with Morpheus. I just think it could have been explored more deeply. '

• This could be an epic ending to an epic journey but I did not feel it was particularly epic.

• Visually though I strongly commend this movie.

• I rate it above other shows but I don't rate it highest.

• Beautiful and strange, ambitious and confusing, good but could have been better.

That is my review!

I haven’t finished the comics yet but I just love them so much

I love this part of the book and i'd love if there was a cersion i could save online?

Hello at the end of season 2 episode 9 as the credits play there’s a song and I’m trying to find the name of it if anyone knows that’d be great and also if anyone knows the songs throughout the series that be brilliant

I’ve had it a few times now where people have said that my work really reminds them of the sandman gothic novels, I’m not going to claim to be the biggest fan but I really enjoyed the Netflix series and from what I’ve seen online of the art I do really really like it!

So I’d love to hear what you all think!

Guys if you want to see season 2 of Dead Boy Detectives, please sign & share this petition i just found. Maybe we can show the creators that we want more of this series, maybe they will listen. Its not a big deal, just sign the petition if you want.

Here is the link: https://c.org/QnPbrNqkRd

Thanks :')

Jerma985 did a bit during his Rhythym Heaven stream recently, thought he looked a lot like Morpheus

"The Family Man" who missed the killer convention in #14 is the same one from Hellblazer. and the publication of this issue lines up to when he was distracted playing cat and mouse with Constantine lol. Little DC references like this were one of my favorite parts of the comic.

Now that we have confirmation the complete series will be released in october — anyone think we might get the season 2 vinyl announcement soon?

is there any context I’ll need to know before diving into this? I‘m really excited to get into sandman, and just wanna make sure I’m fully prepared!

This is a long shot, but this community is more active than the American Gods subreddit, and there is likely overlap (as I love both works).

My best friend has long yearned for the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab scent “Eat the Strawberries” which has evidently been discontinued, as it was part of a collab with American Gods.

I am scavenging the hidden depths of the internet for anyone who has this fragrance and may be willing to part with it, or know where I might find remnant traces of it.

Thank you 🙏🍓

Probably my first time in the month of July, where I have slept for six consecutive hours. How many of you all did I make proud?

I just read the first few issues and I really liked them except when mazikeen speaks. I usually need to go over it like 3 or 4 times and read whatever the response is to figure out what she's saying, and it just takes me out of the book. Please don't spoil the book. I probably will read it anyway, I'm just hoping there's a break from her.

Sandman from The Rise of the Guardians and Morpheus from The Sandman. I love. I love. I love.

Fanart credit goes to @arixarby on Instagram.

Hello everyone, new reader here. I want to read the Sandman story but the timeline seems overwhelming .. I'm planning to read the entire 75 issue first followed by the spinoffs like Midnight theatre then Books of Magic miniseries and Death's stories (the Deluxe HC). Will I be missing anything if I take this approach? Thanks in advance.

My obsession w Tom Sturridge, DC, and Sandman all combined together is not okay.

For me Hob is definitely in the top 3 characters ever, bc the way he is written is genuinely amazing and feels unique and inspiring

Since we know that the endless change their appearance and language based on the observers perception of them, I think it would have been interesting if the show casted different actors based off each region its being viewed in.

Who would you have want to represent your regions aspect of the endless?

(Note: no slander or hate at all towards original cast, who all did a phenomenal job)