With that canvas stretched taut, you can tell intriguing human stories over the top of it. Those rules are: good fantasy should ask the question “What if this thing happened? That’d be weird, wouldn’t it?” then set out some uneasy rules to govern that weirdness. I have a potted history with fantasy television: we had a lot of it a couple of years ago, almost all of it bad, because they ignored the two primary rules for fantasy that I have made up and never actually bothered to tell anybody. It can’t be – no! Thousands of people who still have DVD collections are yelling at me in unison about lore!Īnyway, you can stop telling me which subreddits I need to subscribe to, or what arcane maps I need to get out of the library, because I actually like this one.
Do you feel it, sire? A disturbance in the email realm. So it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that I have watched The Sandman (available now on Netflix), the Netflix x Warner x DC crossover event of the summer. “Because weirdly if we do it with heart and we do it with attention to detail and we do it with love, the comics panels are there.N othing lets me know I’m in for a week of tedious emails like being tasked to write about a big-budget fantasy series for this fun TV column.
“It’s not for me a matter of, well, how panel-for-panel, how comics accurate can we get?” Gaiman explained.
Television and is based on the DC Comics series of the same name from Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg.Ĭreator Gaiman exclusively told IndieWire that the series “grows around you but is always completely of its time” and that the aesthetic of the show directly harkens back to the comic panels’ art design. The hybrid two-part episode is written by Catherine Smyth-McMullen and executive produced by show creators Gaiman and David S. The installment is helmed by Louise Hooper. Live-action “Calliope” features Sturridge and guest stars Melissanthi Mahut, Arthur Darvill, Nina Wadia, Souad Faress, Dinita Gohil, Kevin Harvey, Amita Suman, and Derek Jacobi.
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