The Sandman

Neil Gaiman's adaptation of his own DC Comics epic — considered unfilmable for decades — arrived on Netflix in 2022 with the scope, strangeness, and emotional depth the source material demanded. Tom Sturridge's Dream of the Endless is a genuinely alien presence: beautiful, cold, and slowly learning what it means to change. The show's willingness to be weird, slow, and mythologically dense in a streaming landscape of formula is itself a kind of victory.