Netflix
Netflix’s Sandman is quite different from the comics and that opens up the story to a whole new fandom.
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Fictional, magical cities can help us understand our own urban lives.
Ian Miller
The BBC’s adaptation flopped in 2000. But times have changed.
Yggdrasil, the tree that supports the world in Norse myth, can be found in America in Neil Gaiman’s mash-up of world religion.
Starz
American Gods imagines a US where ancient gods exist at “right angles to reality”, asking why we have mythologies and why we need them.