{"id":36860,"date":"2022-08-06T00:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T00:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-sandman-premiere-recap-netflixs-neil-gaiman-adaptation\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T00:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T00:49:55","slug":"the-sandman-premiere-recap-netflixs-neil-gaiman-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-sandman-premiere-recap-netflixs-neil-gaiman-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Sandman’ Premiere Recap: Netflix’s Neil Gaiman Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Sandman<\/em>Netflix’s long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comics, starts \u201cin the waking world, which humanity insists on calling the ‘real’ world, as if your dreams have no effect upon the choices you make,\u201d the main character, Morpheus, tells us at the top of the series’ premiere.<\/p>\n As we watch a raven follow a horse-drawn carriage and then fly off to another, otherworldly realm, Morpheus \u2014 aka Dream, aka Lord of The Dreaming, aka King of Dreams, aka about a zillion other names \u2014 adds, \u201cThere is another life that awaits you when you close your eyes and enter my<\/em> realm.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, the 10 Season 1 episodes that started streaming Friday take viewers deep into Dream’s world, a once lush and rich playground (think giant golden doors to a kingdom where dragons frolick) that starts to crumble when its lord leaves \u201cto pursue a rogue nightmare ,\u201d as he tells us \u2014 and gets detained for more than a century.<\/p>\n