Who Is The Prodigal In The Sandman?
Warning: SPOILERS for Netflix's The Sandman TV Show And The Sandman Comics
Throughout The Sandman season 1, there are several references to «the Prodigal» but who is he and what is his connection to Dream (Tom Sturridge) and the Endless? Executive produced by Neil Gaiman, Netflix's The Sandman is the long-awaited adaptation of his beloved DC Comics dark fantasy graphic novel saga. Sturridge stars as Morpheus, the master of dreams, along with Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, and Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer Morningstar. The Sandman season 1 adapts Gaiman's first two volumes, Preludes and Nocturnes and The Doll's House, which means «the Prodigal» doesn't appear but his absence is repeatedly mentioned.
When The Sandman begins, Dream of the Endless is captured by a British warlock named Roderick Burgess (Charles Dance). The so-called Magus intended to apprehend and bind Death to his will but, instead, he held the Sandman prisoner for over a hundred years. When Dream finally escapes, he embarks on a quest to rebuild his broken realm, the Dreaming, by reacquiring his stolen symbols of office: his dream stone ruby, his helmet, and his pouch of dream sand.The Sandman season 1 also introduces some of the other members of the Endless; Death appears in episode 6, while their mischievous younger siblings, Desire (Mason Alexander Park) and Despair (Donna Preston), manipulate events from afar. The other members of the Endless, Destiny and Delirium, don't appear in The Sandman season 1 and neither does «the Prodigal,» whose absence factors into Desire's plots against Dream.
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