Netflix’s The Sandman Has One Perfect Hour

There are plenty of reasons why properties like Neil Gaiman’s fantastical, somewhat esoteric not-quite-superhero-comic not-quite-fantasy-story The Sandman tend to languish in development hell—the creative purgatory for projects that are too weird to be massive hits, yet too good to just be left on the shelf. Chief among them is that these sorts of adaptations must be done “the right way,” with actors and directors and writers who know just how to bend and mold the material from one medium into another. It’s a lot of pressure, particularly for something like The Sandman—an artifact of the 1990s that combines Gaiman’s wry… Read Full Article