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The Sandman, the live-action tv collection primarily based on Neil Gaiman’s darkish fantasy DC Comics collection of the identical title, premiered on Netflix on Friday. The 10-episode first season takes viewers on a journey throughout the far corners of the land of desires, via the gates of hell, and the waking world of the mortal realm as Dream (Tom Sturridge) rebuilds his area after greater than a century of imprisonment on Earth.

Fans of the collection had been handled to a shock with the reveal of an eleventh episode comprising diversifications of two beloved standalone tales from The Sandman comedian. The first is an animated tackle “A Dream of a Thousand Cats,” the 18th difficulty of the unique comedian collection. Collected within the third quantity of The Sandman, “Dream Country,” the problem follows the story of a small white cat who known as to sneak away one evening to attend a secret assembly in a graveyard the place a Siamese cat relates the story of how she met the Dream Lord (within the type of a cat) who tells her the key historical past and feud between cats and people.

The animated story can even deliver a bevy of visitor stars lending their vocal skills to The Sandman, together with James McAvoy (who notably performs Dream in the audio adaptation), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), and Neil Gaiman himself.

The second story within the bonus episode is a live-action adaptation of “Calliope,” which within the comics, instantly precedes “A Dream of A Thousand Cats” in difficulty #17. Taking its title from one of many 9 muses in Greek mythology, it tells the story of Richard Madoc (performed by Doctor Who’s Arthur Darville), a author who cruelly enslaves Calliope with a purpose to gasoline his personal inventive ambition and write nice work.

Although the bonus episode was beforehand unannounced and a shock to most, Neil Gaiman did suggest that the present had tailored “A Dream of A Thousand Cats” in a single kind or one other when requested about what his favourite problems with The Sandman had been throughout an interview for Netflix’s Geeked Week occasion. “Calliope,” nonetheless, is a bit of bit extra of a (unsettling) shock.

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