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.
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