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    ‘The Sandman’ Assessment: Season 2 Is an Terrible Snooze, Whether or not It’s Your Dream Present or Waking Nightmare

    David GroveBy David GroveJuly 3, 20255 Mins Read
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    Within the premiere episode of “The Sandman” Season 2, Dream (Tom Sturridge) asks his loyal topic Cain (Sanjeev Bhaskar) to take the specific prepare to Hell so he can ship a message to Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie). However earlier than Cain can learn his ruler’s rigorously chosen phrases, Lucifer cuts him off: “No, not the message,” she says. “Simply the content material.”

    Hardly ever has a collection so succinctly summed up its faulty perspective towards storytelling, and rarer nonetheless has such a fast-tracked method to plowing by narrative felt extra welcome. As Season 2 swiftly makes evident, the earlier we put Netflix‘s adaptation of “The Sandman” behind us, the higher.

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    Why? Properly, in the beginning, the collection is deeply disagreeable to sit down by following the credible allegations leveled in opposition to its creator Neil Gaiman, who stays an govt producer and co-creator on Season 2. The primary season’s bonus episode was stomach-turning sufficient — through which a self-described feminist creator imprisons and rapes his muse not just for inspiration, however so he can higher perceive ladies(?!) — and the brand new batch of episodes solely double down on unwelcome parallels between “The Sandman” and its creator.

    In Season 2, Quantity 1, Dream learns how one can higher empathize with people (and his siblings, aka the Infinite, that are personified forces of nature extra highly effective than gods). However in doing so, he additionally struggles to acknowledge his personal fallibility — reminiscent of that point he confused love for “want” and ended up banishing a girl to Hell for 10,000 years. Previous errors like this one invite reality-invoking questions of consent and manipulation, whereas a hard and fast give attention to Dream’s absent compassion calls to thoughts Gaiman’s continued denials of any wrongdoing and the authorized motion he filed in opposition to ladies accusing him of sexual misconduct. Ostensibly, Dream is slowly coming to comprehend even the Infinite can change — that he, too, could care about folks — however the proof is so scant, so imprecise, and so hole, it’s all however inconceivable to separate the artwork from the artist, even in case you can keep awake lengthy sufficient to strive.

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    Which brings us to the second key downside: It might probably’t be overstated, sans any outdoors context in anyway, that “The Sandman” is a horrible present. Goals spends these first six episodes inspecting previous errors, moping round like an emo unhappy boy, after which continuing to do no matter he desires. Season 2 once more tells largely self-contained tales with out sound episodic construction, but it additionally lacks sufficient specifics to justify its important character’s fitfully serialized improvement.

    Netflix’s adaptation is maddeningly inert, and lest you suppose I’m simply piling on now that Gaiman has made himself a straightforward goal for criticism, I’ve acquired the receipts. “The Sandman” has at all times been a barren slog; now, it’s simply an upsetting one, too.

    The Sandman. (L to R) Tom Sturridge as Dream, Umulisa Gahiga as Nada in episode 201 of The Sandman. Cr. Ed Miller/Netflix © 2025
    Tom Sturridge and Umulisa Gahiga in ‘The Sandman’Courtesy of Ed Miller / Netflix

    Facet quests apart, the continuing story dwells on two primary plots: 1. Dream attached with a mortal and should take care of the results, and a pair of. Dream goes searching for his misplaced brother, Destruction (Barry Sloane), who deserted his realm, together with his oddball sister Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles). (In essence, he’s on an apology tour, even when he doesn’t at all times appear to know what he’s apologizing for.) Alongside the way in which, he seems in on Hell, hosts a banquet, produces “A Midsummer Evening’s Dream,” stalks his ex, and seeks out the son he deserted. (You may in all probability guess the place the apologies are available in.)

    Some episodes depend on flashbacks, others plow full steam forward, and none depart a lot of a mark. Interacting with varied anthropomorphic gods and animals, Dream’s dilemmas are so devoid of friction there’s nothing to know onto; if the remainder of the present launched partaking concepts to ponder or whisked us away to a world price admiring, maybe “The Sandman” might work as an efficient head journey. As is, it’s not. Showrunner and co-creator Allan Heinberg prioritizes recreating what’s already on the web page whereas stitching these pages collectively to kind a discernible plot. If which means everybody simply form of comes and goes, with no room for vital battle, so be it. (It’s staggering how little resistance Dream faces to any of his plans.)

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    Dream’s discoveries about himself, his relationships, and his outlook on humankind are so primary and broad it’s as if he’s by no means as soon as checked out any one among them till now, regardless of being older than the gods. In the meantime, the season’s overarching theme is targeted on quitting and why it’s OK to take some time off (or numerous break day).

    Who cares that pondering early retirement is at odds with Dream’s earlier plotline (he simply acquired his realm again in Season 1 after being held captive for over a century), or that not one of the different aspiring retirees ever appear to do any work? As long as Season 2 takes shortcut after shortcut as a way to embrace as a lot of Gaiman’s comedian books as doable, it doesn’t matter what different ugliness he’s put into the world or that these tales really feel as faint as a day-old dream; the followers can say they noticed Delirium and Destruction on TV! Hooray!

    Apparently, the content material is all that counts.

    Grade: D+

    “The Sandman” Season 2, Quantity 1 premieres Thursday, July 3 on Netflix. Quantity 1 is made up of six episodes, which shall be launched directly, however Quantity 2 (made up of 5 episodes) will premiere July 24, and the collection finale will premiere July 31.



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