The Sandman Season 1 Moments That Upset Fans The Most

In addition to covering Dream’s interactions with Lucifer, Episode 4 — titled “A Hope in Hell” — also adapts the fifth issue of “Sandman” comics called “Passengers.” The Netflix series removes all the Justice Leaguer appearances from the original version while keeping the story of John Dee hitchhiking his way to retrieve what he thinks of as his ruby.

Dee is picked up and driven by a kind woman named Rosemary (Sarah Niles) who enjoys his company at first, then slowly begins to realize how dangerous he is. However, after their long journey together, she begins to sympathize with him and wishes to help him if she can. In the comics, this trip takes a deadly turn when John Dee casually kills Rosemary after she drops him off at his destination. However, the show has him not only spare Rosemary’s life, but also gift her with a necklace that will basically make her immortal.

While this is an intriguing change, Rosemary’s senseless death in the comics signaled that John Dee operated under his own terrifying logic and leant a sense of impending dread to what he would do in the following issue in which he takes up residence in a small 24-hour diner. While that sense of unease isn’t totally gone in the Netflix series, this version of the story makes John Dee a little less frightening, even while it works out much better this way from Rosemary’s perspective.

In addition to covering Dream’s interactions with Lucifer, Episode 4 — titled “A Hope in Hell” — also adapts the fifth issue of “Sandman” comics called “Passengers.” The Netflix series removes all the Justice Leaguer appearances from the original version while keeping the story of John Dee hitchhiking his way to retrieve what he thinks of as his ruby.

Dee is picked up and driven by a kind woman named Rosemary (Sarah Niles) who enjoys his company at first, then slowly begins to realize how dangerous he is. However, after their long journey together, she begins to sympathize with him and wishes to help him if she can. In the comics, this trip takes a deadly turn when John Dee casually kills Rosemary after she drops him off at his destination. However, the show has him not only spare Rosemary’s life, but also gift her with a necklace that will basically make her immortal.

While this is an intriguing change, Rosemary’s senseless death in the comics signaled that John Dee operated under his own terrifying logic and leant a sense of impending dread to what he would do in the following issue in which he takes up residence in a small 24-hour diner. While that sense of unease isn’t totally gone in the Netflix series, this version of the story makes John Dee a little less frightening, even while it works out much better this way from Rosemary’s perspective.