"The Sandman," Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal comic book, is here, and it's pretty spectacular. It's also really odd; the story is about a family of concepts who are also god-like beings known as the Endless; Dream, played to moody perfection by Tom Sturridge, is the one we spend the most time with. I ended up really enjoying it and hope it catches on, in part because I want to see the rest of the comic; there's a lot of good stuff in the issues to come.
For instance, there's an episode in this first season where Dream travels to Hell and plays a game of imagination against Lucifer, played by "Game of Thrones" veteran Gwendoline Christie. Dream wins and humiliates the Lord of Hell, after which she swears revenge. That plot moves forward in the "Season of Mists" arc from the comics, and Gaiman himself can barely wait to adapt it for television, as he told Variety:
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