The Sandman

• Title: The Sandman – The Song of Orpheus / Family Blood
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Guilty over recent events, Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) makes up with his sister Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles) and this time earnestly sets out to find their missing brother. While successful, leading to a meeting with Destruction (Barry Sloane), that’s not the family reunion that is the most memorable. For Dream, its the unexpected crossing of paths with his estranged son Orpheus (Ruairi O’Connor ) that allows for a look back at the dream lord’s past and the tragedy of his son. Orpheus’ backstory is most notable for his song to Hades (Garry Cooper) and Persephone (Antonia Desplat) and for the return of Jenna Coleman (albeit reprising the lesser interesting of the two Constantine women she’s played on the show – something which will be rectified in the next episode).

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• Title: The Sandman – Brief Lives
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With no real intention of success, Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) agrees to help his sister Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles) in her search to find their missing brother believing there’s a chance he might run across Nada (Umulisa Gahiga) on their travels. However, all he does is further infuriate his siblings. The old friends of the missing Destruction (Barry Sloane) turn up dead, infuriating Desire (Mason Alexander Park), and Delirium learns the truth of Dream’s manipulation abandoning her siblings and locking herself up in her realm. While Creed-Miles’ Delirium is fun to behold, and there’s certainly more to Destruction that we’ve yet to see, Morpheus’ continued obsession with Nada isn’t what I was hoping for given the limited number of stories left to tell and how much more of his world there is yet to explore.

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