The Sandman · Season 1 · Episode 11 · 19 August 2022
S1E11 And Dreaming I Was Dreaming
THE MOMENT Hob and Morpheus's centuries-spanning pub meeting, where the terms of their friendship are finally stated honestly.
The bonus special episode adapts two Gaiman stories from outside the main comics arc, demonstrating the anthology range the source material contains. A two-hander with Morpheus and Hob Gadling, a man granted immortality to test whether humans truly want eternal life, stands as the episode's finest hour.
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The Sandman Season 1 Episode 11 'And Dreaming I Was Dreaming' aired August 19, 2022 on Netflix as a bonus special episode. Rotten Tomatoes holds Season 1 at 88 percent from 122 critics. The special adapts two short stories from outside the main comics arc, demonstrating the source material's anthology range - a formal capability the regular episodes' serialised structure cannot access. The Hob Gadling segment, a two-hander in which Morpheus meets a man granted immortality to test whether humans truly want eternal life, plays as an extended dialogue piece that spans centuries in 30 minutes. The episode lands as the most formally varied piece of television in the season, and the Hob and Morpheus pub meeting - where the terms of their friendship are finally stated honestly - is the episode's best scene and one of the season's most affecting moments.