I just started watching Sandman enjoyed it.
I really wanted to like Sandman, since I love the source material so much. But the series was mediocre, at best.
Just finished the second season. It was an improvement over the first, but still disappointing.
Most of the Endless were pretty well cast.
Delirium should have been a stand out character, and the actress was good but they played her so flat. She did not at all come across as the personification of insanity. If Kristen Schaal was younger she wouldāve been perfect. She did the voice in the audiobook version.
Wish we couldāve seen more of Despair. I actually liked the shows take on her. For obvious reasons, they couldnāt have her look like the character in the comics. A frumpy, depressed heavy woman works pretty well as a replacement and the actress was good.
Desire fit the comic version well. But Desire comes across to me as an effeminate man and not simultaneously both sexes which is what I think Gaiman intended. The actor nails Desireās cruelty, though.
Death, Iām fine with her being black but they should have found an actress a bit moreā¦ spritely? Effervescent? The Death so many comic fans fell in love with was a cute, cheerful goth chick. The actress was a little too serious.
Destruction should have been played by a bigger, more muscular guy. Thatās an important aspect of his nature. But the actor did an okay job.
Destiny was always a bland character. The actor did fine. The character should have been blind, though.
The actress playing Lyta Hall was terrible. Lytaās grief/rage over her sonās (supposed) murder and her mentally unhinged quest to seek the Furies was my favorite part of the comics. Id rather they had just cut Lytaās character out altogether somehow then have such a weak portrayal.
The actress playing Rose Walker was terrible, too. I donāt care that they made her black, she simply was a bad actress. The dialogue between Desire and Rose about the nature of love toward the end of the comic series was some of the best writing Iāve ever read. Iām glad they skipped it in the tv series, cause the actress didnāt have the chops to pull it off.
