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Our review of The Sandman: The Fine Sandman Tour on Netflix

2022-08-05T07:25:25.378Z


REVIEW – The platform delivers a facetious adaptation, with enough violence and mythology, of the cult graphic novel by Neil Gaiman.


For thirty years, the author of graphic novels Neil Gaiman has prevented adaptations of his cult comic strip

The Sandman

, an account of the adventures through the centuries of the god of dreams, who also responds to the name of Morpheus or the Sandman, in the kingdom of the living.

The proposals for feature films did not seem to him large enough to contain his universe.

Objections raised by the serial format.

Closely associated with the adaptation produced by Netflix and Warner, Gaiman ensured respect for the fantasy and childish facetiousness of his work, an alloy of myths, philosophy, comedy seasoned with more violent sequences.

Gaiman took the opportunity to bring his text up to date by feminizing the protagonists and practicing a mixed casting, as in

The Chronicle of the Bridgertons

.

Seasoned by the failed transpositions of

American Gods

and the most successful of

Good Omens

(Amazon Prime Video creations), the author has learned the lessons and learned to be concise.

Each of the ten episodes does not…

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Source: lefigaro

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