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The Sandman – Season 2 Episode 6 'Family Blood' Recap & Review
Episode 6 Episode 6 of The Sandman Season 2 begins in England, 1794. Lady Johanna Constantine is visited by Morpheus, 5 years after their first meeting. He tasks her with the retrieval of Orpheus' head. Seems like he ended up in France and Robespierre locked him up out of fear of his oracle powers. In Paris, Johanna is able to steal back the head but two soldiers spot her. While she hides, she and Orpheus bond. He misses his father and wonders if Morpheus is behind his rescue. Johanna looks sad as Morpheus has forbidden her from revealing her employer. In the morning, Robespierre and his men show up. Unable to find Orpheus, they arrest Johanna. Via her dream, Morpheus too asks after Orpheus. Johanna shares how he is lively and how his spirit hasn't been broken. She asks for help and Morpheus suggests a song. In the waking world, Robespierre gives Johanna a chance to return Orpheus. She pretends to agree. She has hidden him among the guillotined heads and retrieves him. On cue, he sings a song of liberty. The soldiers fall into a trance, allowing Johanna and Orpheus to leave. Soon after, Robespierre is guillotined for his reign of terror. Our unlikely duo returns to Orpheus' island. Johanna doesn't want to part ways and suggests visiting Orpheus. He doesn't think it is a good idea as he doesn't want her to fall for a severed head. But he wishes his father would visit and she tells Morpheus so. The Dream King deflects and asks for her fee. She simply wants more time with Orpheus. At present, we see that she has been buried on the island as Delirium and Morpheus arrive. Delirium is nervous and tries to stop Morpheus from kicking off the chain of events that will lead him to killing his son. If an Endless kills one family, the Three Sisters' wrath is brought on the killer. However, Morpheus wants to put his son out of his misery and goes inside. Orpheus is glad to see him and they have a bittersweet reunion as both apologise for their foolishness. Delirium is waiting outside and looks sad once Morpheus returns. However, they have got what they came for – Destruction lives on an island nearby. Unsurprisingly, this second reunion is bittersweet as well. Having accepted their stubbornness, Destruction is happy to see Delirium and Morpheus. Delirium peppers him with questions about his disappearances while Morpheus is angry with him for taking innocent lives as warnings. This amuses Destruction who reminds Morpheus that the old him never cared for humanity. Morpheus continues to provoke him, calling him out for abandoning his responsibilities. But Destruction refuses to return. He reveals that he doesn't have to be present for destruction to exist; it is an independent function. And he refuses to take the blame for it. And while he is glad to see his siblings, he doesn't want anyone to find him again. Delirium begs him to return as she is lonely and he asks Barnabas to stay with her. He then points out that Morpheus has changed for the better, helping Delirium and Orpheus. He reminds Morpheus that he loves humanity which is why he left; he doesn't want to be responsible for their destruction. He hugs his siblings and leaves for the stars. Delirium is glad that she got closure but her smile falls when she remembers the boon which is indeed Orpheus' death. Orpheus is relieved when Morpheus returns. The Dream King confesses that he initially refused to kill Orpheus as he didn't want to live in a world without his son. Morpheus finally kills him and then bids Delirium farewell. He is in a daze as he arrives in the Dreaming. He tells Lucienne to have the priests bury Orpheus. Alone, he struggles to wash the blood from his hands and he finally tears up. At the end of The Sandman Season 2 Episode 6, the Three Sisters are busy drinking tea and knitting. They learn of the filicide and the younger two sisters are sympathetic as they try to delay fate. However, the oldest reminds them of the rules and that Morpheus needs to pay for killing his son. She cuts a thread. The Episode Review The Sandman Season 2 Episode 6 is the perfect point to split the season and could have also worked as a finale had this not been the final season. All major conflicts and storylines are wrapped up, everyone gets closure, including Delirium and Orpheus, and it ends on a satisfying and almost positive note. And there are enough clues hinting at what happens next. There's the aftermath of the prophecy, and what Fate has in store for Morpheus following the killing of his son. He also believes something otherworldly forced him to look for Destruction. However, that 'otherworldly' force could also just be him missing his brother and wanting to help Delirium. Destruction's parting words suggest that, since he is proud of Morpheus changing into a more compassionate being. But the last few flashbacks in this chapter also prove that this change hasn't been sudden or only due to Morpheus imprisonment at the hands of Burgess. 18th-century him is still arrogant but he cares for his son, rescuing him, asking after him and allowing Johanna to be buried on the island so that Orpheus is not alone. His character development has been gradual but enough to not only make him likeable but also an anti-hero to root for. Boy, we do hope nothing bad happens to him in the second part which marks the end of his story… Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
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The Sandman Season 2, Volume 1 Finale: Dream Spills Family Blood, Setting Up a ‘Spectacular' Run of Final Episodes, EP Says
Heads up: The first half of The Sandman's second season ends with the normally stoic Dream bent in half and sobbing over the choices he's made. In a minute, we'll talk with showrunner Allan Heinberg about how the events of the Season 2, Volume 1 finale set Dream and his siblings up for some serious badness when Volume 2 arrives later this month. But first, a quick recap of Episode 6, 'Family Blood.' More from TVLine Ironheart Boss Explains That Fight Set at a White Castle, 'One of the Truest Midwest Things You Could Do!' Nine Perfect Strangers' Finale Leaves the Door Open for Season 3 - Do You Hope to See It Return? The Sandman EP Allan Heinberg Details Neil Gaiman's Involvement in Season 2 The hour begins with Dream contacting Lady Johanna Constantine in the late 1700s to ask for her help: He needs her to go to Paris and retrieve the disembodied head of his son, Orpheus, which has ended up confiscated by Maximilien Robespierre during his Reign of Terror. Robespierre is convinced that the head is an object of 'superstition and decadence,' and he wants it destroyed. So he throws Johanna in prison until his men locate where she's hidden her contraband: in a pile consisting of the noggins of Robespierre's other victims. Just when it looks like all is lost, Orpheus opens his mouth and begins singing a song so powerful it causes all the other dead heads to join in. Robespierre and his men are transfixed, frozen to the spot as Johanna grabs Orpheus and slips away. (The song, we also learn, spurred the French people to put an end to Robespierre's reign soon after.) After successfully ferrying Orpheus to a temple where he will be kept safe for all eternity — because he can't die, remember? — Johanna asks Dream for her payment, and when we return to the present, we see that he granted it: She was buried near Orpheus' temple after she died. Dream asks Orpheus where Destruction has been hiding all this time, and it turns out that he's been holed up on an island near Orpheus' temple — because he knew his brother was trying to stay as far away from Orpheus as possible. We learn that Destructions' scrying pool was responsible for all the carnage they'd encountered along the way (Ishtar, etc.) Destruction then says he won't return with his siblings; destruction will continue to happen, regardless, and he doesn't want it to be his fault. So he takes his sword, entrusts Barnabas to Delirium's care (or maybe the other way around), and tells Dream to remember that he left out of love for humankind. 'Love is the only good reason to do anything,' he adds. Then Dream returns to Orpheus' island, alone, and grants his son's wish: He kills Orpheus with a powerful and bloody punch to the middle of his face. After, he comes home to the Dreaming and washes Orpheus' blood off his hands, crying as he does so. In the hour's final scene, we see the three Fates, hanging out and knitting. Two of them seem inclined to give Dream a little leeway, but one makes it clear that she's ready to hold him accountable for spilling family blood. 'Got to finish sometime,' she says, grabbing a pair of scissors and cutting some yarn in decisive fashion as the episode goes to black. When I spoke with showrunner Allan Heinberg, he said Dream's inner journey this season is just getting underway. Read on to hear his thoughts on what's ahead when Volume 2 starts streaming on Thursday, July 24. TVLINE | This is quite a reckoning for Morpheus this season, right? He is grappling with stuff that I feel like he didn't think all that much about in the first HEINBERG | Absolutely. So much of the first season was about his reaction to his captivity and his rage. He was so righteous in [the idea of] he's a victim. He was going to fix things, even with the Corinthian. It wasn't an inward journey. It was very much a 'I've been away and I'm going to put my house in order' journey, and I think he came out of it with an increased appreciation for Lucienne's contribution. And I think Death offered him some perspective. Season 1 humanized him to the degree that his journey toward empathy was just sort of starting… It had never occurred to him that he's the villain in the Nada story, that he acted dishonorably. And it's his pride and his ego that dictates the trip back to Hell, more than anything else. Even when he says to Nada, 'Now I rescued you from Hell, will you marry me?,' he's still not getting it.[Laughs] He's still not thinking about things from her point of view… You're right: We're peeling away the layers. Because the Orpheus stuff cuts even deeper with him. And then once he makes the decision he makes at the end of Episode 6, the back half of the season becomes a fundamental question of 'Who am I, and what is important to me?' You know? And 'What am I fighting for, in the back half? Am I fighting for my ego? Am I fighting for my kingdom?' He's definitely fighting in the back half. I can't wait for you to see Tom's [Sturridge, who plays Dream] work in the back half. It's truly spectacular. Now it's your turn. Grade both the episode and Season 2, Volume 1 via the polls below, then hit the comments with your thoughts! Best of TVLine Mrs. Maisel Flash-Forward List: All of Season 5's Futuristic Easter Eggs Yellowjackets Recap: The Morning After Yellowjackets Recap: The First Supper
