‘The Sandman’, the god of dreams kidnapped in our world, will return with new episodes. It is the audiovisual adaptation of the graphic novels by the writer Neil Gaiman, which consisted of 75 issues from which numerous spin-offs and prequels have come out. Despite being a classic in the history of comics from the late 1980s, his landing on the small screen was delayed for decades due to the complexity of the plot and the difficulty of making a production that lives up to its plot.
The step taken by Netflix created great expectation and the series was one of the most important fantastic genre releases of 2022. ‘The Sandman’, despite not being among the most watched titles on the platform, garnered some very remarkable data. as highlighted deadline, its first season, which consisted of ten installments more a double episode that was added by surpriseaccumulated an average of seventy million hours of weekly viewing during its first month of life.
The Serie tells the story of Morpheus, the character played by Tom Sturridge, who was kidnapped and held in a world of humans against his will for a century. Once released, he verifies that some nightmares created by him are rampant, generating chaos and plunging thousands of people into terrible dreams from which they cannot escape. Morpheus is determined to regain control, but they won’t make it easy for him.
for an oversight
One more time, the news of the renewal came through an accidental leak. Last Wednesday the publisher DC Comics, responsible for the publication of the Gaiman books, published a tweet in which it said “The dream continues. The Sandman will return with new episodes based on several volumes of Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel for explore even more stories of the Eternals.”
The Twitter post was deleted but the commotion was already unstoppable among the fans. Although it was not immediate, the escalation of official reactions was produced little by little. On the one hand, Gaiman himself came out saying that “The rumors are true. Netflix is happy that so many of you have seen ‘The Sandman’, and what we all hoped would happen…has finally happened…” . Also, another tweet from yesterday came to confirm the news of the arrival of the second season to end any type of rumor mill against.
The Eternals are the family made up of Morpheus and his brothers who, like him, are immortal and represent essential elements that make up the universe as we know it. They are Fate, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium. To get to know them better, we leave you this article in which we tell you everything about the characters and how the mess generated by the kidnapping of the dream god affects them.
The problem of continuity, of course, was not going to be one of content. The producer Allan Heinberg himself had already declared in the publication NME that they have plenty of material to go on if they let them. From what emerges from Heinberg’s statements, as long as there are interested viewers, the series could stretch as much as the novels from which part.
for newcomers
Is It is not a fiction designed exclusively for lovers of spectacular comics from The Sandman. On the contrary, Netflix has sought to meticulously present the main plot from chapter one so that anyone can easily join the Eternals universe. All the keys to the story that revolutionized the world of comics at the end of the 80s are unraveled from minute one without taking anything for granted. We tell you all the details and the high point of the season here.
The fundamental thing is that the visual workmanship is spectacular and that is why it is very possible that whoever sees the first episode of ‘The Sandman’ can’t help but get hooked. The proposed environments, the work of the actors and the magnitude of the problem it poses are brutal and make the start of the series truly impressive. Perhaps, taking into account the latest developments, those who have not yet done so could have the perfect opportunity to take a look at it.