The Sandman
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The plot is thickening!
With two episodes left, were getting the shape of an endgame forSandmanseason one.
Rose, Dream, and the Corinthian are all at cross purposes.
Meanwhile, Desire is somewhere in the background pulling strings.
We open on Dream and Rose deciding to get their collab on.
Dream looks almost charmed talking to Rose.
It has mentor-mentee vibes.
But Dream has his own reasons for wanting to stick by Rose.
The rogue dreams Gault, the Corinthian, and Fiddlers Green are going to be drawn to her.
If he stays near her, he can find his absent employees.
Jed is an afterthought to Dream, as most mortals are.
My blood boiled pretty much every time this broad was on screen.
When Lyta goes to apologize to her (why?
She deserves to be yelled at!
), the lady is having a glass of wine at her desk.
Are we inMad Menor are you responsible for the well-being of minors?
Lyta reiterates that Rose just wants to know that her brother is safe.
And when she actually does check up on Jed, she just sits in the foster parents kitchen.
But Little Miss Wine-for-Lunch wouldnt know anything about that.
Anyway, Im glad shes dead.
Morpheus is right, and the stray dreams are being drawn into Roses orbit.
And Gault has been with Jed pretty much since he and Rose were separated.
At leastsomeonewas able to look beyond their job and help this kid.
As promised, Dream helps Rose look for Jed in her sleep.
As the Vortex, Rose can travel between the dreams of people she knows, which they find unsettling.
But we get a nice peek into the inner lives of everyone at Hals boarding house.
Ken has a basic-ass fear-of-nudity nightmare, while Barbie has an ongoing epic adventure in her brain.
Chantal is in love with a sentence, while Zelda is a child.
More on that later.
Rose travels through her friends dreams toward her brothers.
Eventually, Dream and Rose find Jed and Gault.
One expects a big showdown between Dream and his errant nightmare, but Gault goes willingly to protect Jed.
Then Dream wakes the Walkers up before she can get many details out of Jed.
Hes still very callous toward humans, and its going to bite him in the ass one day.
This is when we learn Gaults motivation for her mini-fiefdom in Jeds brain.
Dream gets pissed at the suggestion that even he can or should change.
Hes almost as mad as when Hob suggested he needed friends.
Hes even mean to Lucienne when she reminds him that her function has changed over the years.
But the King of Dreams doesnt wanna hear it.
Hed be furious to know that I think hes changed a great deal since his imprisonment.
Lets look at the evidence.
Would pre-bubble Dream have acknowledged his friendship with Hob?
Would he have been so gentle while guiding Rose through other peoples dreams?
Would he have been worried for Matthews safety outside the Dreaming?
Hes a slightly different fuddy-duddy.
She doesnt wait for Lyta to set out and find him, which is just as well.
Shes got problems enough on her own.
Apparently Lytas dead husband Hectors ghost is posted up in her dreams.
Every time she falls asleep, its the two of them.
Rose is fast getting to Jed, but the Corinthian is faster.
And Jed is riding shotgun to a serial-killer convention.
Fables and Reflections:
That song that ends the episode is unforgivably bad.
Sorry, this is prestige drama, not a Chevy truck commercial.
Glad to see the show hitting that theme pretty hard.
What did Lucienne used to be before she was the librarian?
Inquiring minds want to know.
It cant feel good to wake up one morning with a trimesters worth of baby in your stomach.
When Lyta looks at her bump in the mirror, she should be absolutely covered in stretch marks.
But maybe Im being too fussy looking for realism in a magical ghost dream pregnancy.
I wish there were more stylistic differences between the boarding-house dreams.
I did appreciate the way they fucked with writing in everyones dreams.
Hot tip: If you think youre dreaming but youre not sure, attempt to read something.
Hal flirting with the Corinthian was scary.
TBH, I dont love that every gay man in the show is into the Corinthian.
Rose looks up Barnaby and Clarice on track-a-being.com, which is one of the Google substitutes Ive ever encountered.
This is worse than when people kept insistently using Bing onThe Vampire Diaries.
Lytas dream house is ugly, sorry.
The time for all-white interiors is over.
