The Sandman

My Year in TV Shows Based on Books: Emotional Attachments, and a Very Serious Top 5

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2025, I watched 26 TV shows based on books, which sounds impressive until you realize most of them were selected via a highly scientific method known as chaos clicking. Some were carefully anticipated, others were “oh, hey, that’s based on a book?” discoveries. All of them fed into my ongoing fascination with adaptations as their … Continue reading My Year in TV Shows Based on Books: Emotional Attachments, and a Very Serious Top 5

Born Into Being

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The Sandman doesn’t waste time pretending we’re in control of how we arrive in this world. Instead, it asks the real question: What do we do once we’re here? Through layered storytelling and melancholic truth, it holds up a mirror to the parts of us we didn’t ask for but still carry.

The Cleansing Fire

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The truth is a cleansing fire...which burns away the lies we've told each other...and the lies we've told ourselves. So that love and hate, pleasure and pain, can all be expressed without shame. Where there is no good or bad there is only the truth." John Dee, The Sandman (2022)