Review by Kalebe Alves

The Sandman 2022

The series is amazing. Well acted, shot, written! It's quite frankly the best show I've seen this year by far. The main storylines are satisfying and they lay some pretty good grounds for future seasons, even without the last scene which is amazing btw!

And you know what's funny... Rose's storylines would feel pretty rushed up in any other series especially near the end, but somehow, it felt really natural the way they did, it got some urgency. I just wish they had some time to build up some characters better, or show off more, like Constantine, which is fucking cool, even though it can get guffy sometimes. I hope they're able to bring some other sotrylines form the comics, and keep it as concise and as we'll thought as this season.

And let's talk about hell. How lovely is Gwendoline on that character. It's so frightening and so kind at the same time. She's amazing. What a nice depiction of the lightbringer and maze. They should teach something to the lucifer series made by cw(I know). It's a shame we see so little of her.

And desire. The way he moves, talks, express. Wtf, His voice is so effing amazing, it is almost like they increase the reverb just a little bit, and overlayed some deeper voice on his. I get chills every scene hes in.

But not everything is that great though. I get that this is a tv show, and they had to cut some corners somewhere, but Damm some visual effects are downright ugly as hell. And what's up with those incars scenes. I don't think I ever saw such bad incar screens like this. A lot of them look low resolution and low fps as hell. Specially when Rose is going to the convention. wtf is that? Looks like you're playing a YouTube video from 2008 shot at 240p, upscalled to 8k, while moving the window around, plugged to a high latency panel, on a rapebarry pi. It's really aweful. I can't believe that they didn't notice that.

Also, some people might say that the first episodes are slow. I would argue that that was somewhat necessary. That way you feel a little bit the passage of time, and just a glimpse of how it might have been for the Sandman all those years. Could it have been done better? I don't know, I'm not a writer. I just know that it would feel realy rushed if they had shown just a few scenes form that century the way in other series usually do, and I'm pretty tired from series showing flashbacks amid episodes all the time, since it was a couple of episodes, to explain it as time goes. It can be better, I'm just staying that this way worked better for me. It helped to believe that that was something really bad for him, though they don't explore it that much (his feeling about it). Almost exclusively the side effects on his realm. I think it would have been silly to watch him on a revenge journey, but maybe there were better ways to explore that. They say that he changed and all, after admitting being wrong about Rose, but I don't know. It felt kinda cheap and superficial.

Otherwise, it is amazing! Go watch!! You're wasting time reading this!

Sadly it ends. Haha
Can't wait for the next season.

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