TheSandman Review: Ambitious Netflix Adaptation Overcomes Its Growing Pains
Conversations around adaptations as big as Netflix's The Sandman series tend to be dominated by the idea of"faithfulness," which is usually one of the least interesting ways to talk about them. It condemns the new work to living in the shadow of the old one, which has the unbeatable advantage of being 100% faithful to itself, instead of allowing both to benefit from being so deeply in conversation with one another.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY The Sandman begins with a mistake: In 1916, occultist Sir Roderick Burgess and his followers enact a ritual intended to capture Death, and find themselves having trapped Dream instead. Also known as Morpheus, this primordial being is one of the Endless, and the personification of all dreams and stories. Still, he is held captive by mortals, first the blowhard charlatan and then his meeker son, for 106 years, gaining his freedom in the year 2022.
And they are not the only reasons to consider the series a win, as this show's casting is especially strong, both when considered as an adaptation and as something that must stand on its own. Holbrook gives a compelling villain performance that makes the Corinthian's increased screen time very worthwhile, while David Thewlis flexes his ability to have a viewer hanging on his every gesture as the inscrutable John Dee.
Dream, however, struggles, and that's less the fault of Sturridge than the show's decision to fully humanize his look. Broody, distant, and resistant to change, the King of Dreams is a difficult character to latch onto at first, and that connection comes with time. But it is crucial that the viewer accepts him as an immortal being of tremendous power, particularly because the story will then undermine that power in various ways.
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