Didn’t Love: The Visual Design

Okay, hear me out. The Sandman was an incredible comic. Part of that was the trippy panels, character designs, colors, and flow of the visual narratives of dreams and demons. It was a groundbreaking piece of media, and became a cult classic for a reason. This show, however, isn’t nearly at that level, and it doesn’t nearly capture the energy of the comic, making for kind of a standard-looking urban supernatural show that occasionally flits into the absurd. I get why they did it, but it’s still disappointing. I just wished they had pushed it further.