What I liked here is the show’s ability to live in, albeit briefly, the last moments Rose has with Jed. Rose’s quest to be reunited with her brother, Jed, defines her role for much of this arc in the comic, but we never got to see much of what their life together was like before the family separation. Especially heart-wrenching is the emotion of having to abandon your family when that family breaks in an irreparable way.

This is a moment largely skipped over in the comic, but I did appreciate the show opening with a zeroing in on the experience of growing up and living in a broken home. We’ve seen Rose Walker before, briefly, during the episode ’24/7′ where she was friend of the annoying lesbian, Judy, but here we get to see a bit of her backstory before this arc centres around her, both literally and figuratively. Join me as we dive headfirst into The Sandman‘s “The Doll’s House.” As always, spoilers are abound below.

It was a big step forward for the show now that the baggage of trying to adapt the ‘Preludes & Nocturnes’ arc of the comic is out of the way and, this week, we’re following that trend forward as the show enters its latter half and begins adapting the comic’s second arc, ‘The Doll’s House.’Ĭan the show continue that goodwill and forward momentum gained by last week’s episode or will this be a return to less favourable form? There’s only one way to find out. After what can only be charitably described as a rocky start, The Sandman finally seemed to find its footing last week in the epilogue cum bridge episode, ‘The Sound Of Her Wings,’ that both introduced us to Dream’s big sister, Death, and followed Dream on a journey of remembering and discovering his personality and purpose. Hello, and welcome, once again, to our coverage of Netflix’s Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman.

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