Here, Death is a Londoner, just as Dream (Tom Sturridge) is English The episode became a leisurely afternoon stroll through Richmond, London, full of life we spent two years missing while in Lockdown The first half of the hour was, like the comic, a meditation on how to face the end of life and find[...]
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The sixth episode of Netflix's The Sandman could be called a mid-season break with Dream (Tom Sturridge) succeeding in retrieving his tools and regaining his kingdom Now the season is in its home stretch with four episodes to go, adapting "The Doll's House" story arc While it faithfully follows the main plot points of the[...]
The sixth episode of Netflix's The Sandman finally arrives at the most anticipated story in the whole series, the most family story in the saga, "The Sound of Her Wings," the story that introduces Dream's (Tom Sturridge) wiser, nicer older sister, Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste).
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The changes from the comic are interesting[...]
The fifth episode of The Sandman offered a more nuanced take on the original comic issue it adapts, which was part of the 1980s horror wave.
The fourth episode of The Sandman adapts the fourth issue of the original comic, "A Hope in Hell," where Dream (Tom Sturridge) goes to hell to get his helmet back Dream only has his wits to match against both Lucifer Morningstar (Gwendoline Christie) and all the demons in Hell, none of whom are inclined to[...]
This is all about Constantine.
Constantine (Jenna Coleman) and Dream (Tom Sturridge) in "The Sandman" Image: Netflix
Or rather, Johanna Constantine, played by Jenna Coleman No other episode screams "BACKDOOR PILOT!" as much as this one The story broadly follows the original comic but changes many of the elements to update and fit a TV show[...]
Tom Sturridge as Dream in The Sandman Cr Courtesy of Netflix © 2021
We're not interested in talking about casting choices, but story changes to lend the series more dramatic heft or thematic cohesion Where The Sandman comic had a looser narrative and played with randomness, the TV show edits, revises, & compresses many plot elements[...]
So that's why Irma Vep matters.
Besides, where else are you going to go get Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), Dream of the Endless (Tom Sturridge) and Shang-Chi's Mom (Fala Chen) meeting up in Paris? Irma Vep is the biggest geek meta hall of mirrors out there right now, and that's why you want to watch[...]
Johanna Constantine and Rose Walker (Vanesu Samunyai) will play pivotal roles in Morpheus' (Tom Sturridge) arc in season one of The Sandman show, which suggests that Constantine will be appearing in quite a lot of it The trailer already suggests the change from the comics where Johanna Constantine meets the long-lived Mad Hettie who tells[...]
That's because we have a deeper dive into what viewers can expect from the streaming series, courtesy of Gaiman and series star Tom Sturridge (Morpheus aka Dream) In the following highlights from their EW interview, the duo covers a number of topics, including how they approached translating Morpheus's literary-like speech to the small screen, what[...]
With more names still to come (smart move holding off on who locked in the highly-anticipated role of Death), the streaming service is welcoming Tom Sturridge (Sweetbitter) as Dream, Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones) as Lucifer, Vivienne Acheampong (The Witches) as Lucienne, Boyd Holbrook (Narcos) as The Corinthian, Charles Dance (The Crown) as Roderick Burgess, Asim[...]