The Sandman premieres on Netflix on August 5
By Dan Selcke
There is a lot of TV coming out over the next couple of months. At the moment, we’re enjoying Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi and the third season of The Boys. Soon enough, we’ll be watching the third season of The Umbrella Academy on Netflix and the first season of Ms. Marvel on Disney+. July will bring the back half of Stranger Things season 4, August features the debut of House of the Dragon on HBO Max, and Amazon will premiere its Lord of the Rings series The Rings of Power in September.
It’s all a little dizzying, and it’s not over: Netflix announced today that The Sandman, its adaption of Neil Gaiman’s seminal comic series, is coming out on August 5. Sure, why not throw another one on the fire?
What is The Sandman about?
The Sandman is famously hard to describe, but I’ll give it a go: it’s about a group of eternal beings known as the Endless, each of whom is a personification of a different aspect of the human condition. Our main character is Dream (Tom Sturridge), the lord of the Dreaming who takes his responsibilities very seriously.
But the series is so much weirder and wilder than that. At one point we see a world where giant cats hunt humans, we see the first performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream where actual fairies are in the audience, we see Lucifer abandon his leadership of hell in an attempt to screw over Dream, and much more. It’s a wildly imaginative series and Netflix has its work cut out for it in adapting it.
If they can pull it off, the series could be spectacular. We’ll see how things go in a couple of months.
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