Sandman or the end of the Netflix nightmare

Adapting Sandman was no easy task, and it could turn out to be the worst of disasters. comics Neil Gaman They are considered one of the best works of the ninth art of the nineties, and there was a great chance that no matter what was done, no one would be happy. Bringing the screenwriter’s overwhelming imagination and imaginations to the small screen could reveal the daredevils who dared the worst mockery and left it at the mercy of the furious haters. Fortunately, the effort was surpassed on a note. There were plenty of precedents to explain the skepticism. After a notable first season on Amazon Prime, there’s American Gods, an adaptation of a novel by Gaiman, whose second one (when its showrunner leaves) begins to flood everywhere. Bryan Fuller) and ended with its cancellation in the third. Although Gaiman himself was involved in Amazon’s production work, it was not received well. good omensBased on another novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett (creative disc world), though this show is still on my to-watch list.

So the fact that Gaiman himself sponsored the production of his masterpiece for Netflix was no guarantee of anything. As such, he knows how to deal with other veteran writers who are knowledgeable about television and helping him make a worthy adaptation. on the one hand we have David S Goyerscriptwriter batman trilogy under the responsibility Christopher Nolan or from the cult movie dark cityDrinking heavily from Sandman mythology; and we have on the other side allan heimbergworked, producer and screenwriter for both Marvel and DC He has acted in serials such as Grey’s Anatomy Y sex in New York. The first season of Sandman tells us the plot of the first 16 comics published by Vertigo, DC Comics’ adult label. The series had a total of 75 issues and some special episodes. That would give us about five seasons, which is the standard for Netflix series to usually last. A season two renewal has yet to be announced, but everyone is taking it lightly.

For a long time Sandman has been labeled a work of dissonance. More than anything, because it was a simple film to make with it, it was not in fashion to make long epics. It was clear that condensing thousands of pages into a two-hour film with as dense plotlines as Gaiman described made any attempt go to shit. The years have made it clear that the only way to take on this gigantic task is to make a series or a movie epic. Harry Potter Being able to do something with minimal dignity. Another notoriously dissonant title from that era was Watchmen, which The Sandman series does exactly what it did in its time. Zack Snyder when he brings his work to the big screen Alan Moore (who, by the way, was one of the people who put Gaiman on the exciting task of writing comics). Choose maximum fidelity to the original work and maximum respect for what the author’s pen creates.

Sandman was the perfect candidate to be a great show. As in good serials, each story can be watched independently of each other, but we are faced with a choral story with a rich universe of unforgettable characters, enriched section by section. This rule seems to apply more in the first six episodes, which give us all the plot context. Its protagonist is the Lord of Dreams, who in the first episode has spent a hundred years imprisoned by an occultist who accidentally summoned him to bring his son back while planning to capture Death. The plot begins as Morpheus returns to freedom and tries to regain the power he lost during his century in captivity. Tom Sturridge It represents Morpheus dressed in black and with long hair. Robert Smith of the Exchange rate.

There are wonderful stories during this first plot, where the most intimate scenes are combined with the more mystical and dreamy ones. We had some great moments this first season. The plot, in which we see how Morpheus meets a man who decides to renounce his mortality, in a tavern every hundred years, is the same episode as the episode showing Death taking new souls to the other world (Death’s existence barely knew us). we want less and more) … duel with Lucifer (what a great villain he plays Gwendolin Christie and that’s not wasted character Captain Phasma inside Star wars) … All hell breaks loose in a cafe where all customers have to tell the truth in a repeating loop. The last four episodes are less standalone, part of the same plot that leaves everything in place for some of Morpheus’ enemies to come out of the shadows and begin to emerge into the light. Gaiman saves fables and fairy tales to bring us this little gem that both comic book lovers and those who have never read them will enjoy (although they will certainly be interested now). We are in the prologue of a series that promises to be a great series.