Cancel your weekend: The Sandman is streaming, and it’s spectacular

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The Sandman on Netflix

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According to The Guardian,Netflix’snew fantasy series The Sandman is “2022’s single greatest hour of TV drama”, a “dark, engrossing” and “lavish” show that “features an emotional depth that’s almost unheard of in fantasy epics.”

If you’re not familiar with the comics, the titular Sandman – aka Morpheus, The Endless and The King of the Dream Dimension – is an immortal being who creates dreams and nightmares. He travels to Earth to capture an escaped nightmare but gets captured and imprisoned, and when he finally returns home he finds his realm is very broken. To fix it, he has to recover three powerful items. And that’s going to be tricky.

The Sandman currently has a mighty 92% audience rating and 88% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the reviews have been overwhelmingly good. If you like epic, complex and multi-layered storytelling, cancel your weekend plans and watch The Sandman instead.

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The show is “a dream of an adaptation”, writes IGN’s Amelia Emberwing. “While it’s just about impossible to live up to the kind of expectations that come with such anticipation, Gaiman, Allan Heinberg, David S. Goyer and the team behind the new Netflix series didn’t just meet them – they exceeded them.”

Film and TV bible Empire gives the show four out of five stars, concluding that “with its attention to the source material, its impressive cast, and the kind of expansive world-building that surely demands more seasons, The Sandman is what dreams are made of.” Collider says it’s “a dream come true”, and our friends atTechradarsay it’s “authentic” but “oh-so-nearly brilliant”: it takes a few liberties with the source material that won’t delight everybody, but overall the show will “delight established fans and newcomers alike.”

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