Kimito Wynn

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When you can still remember the starting paragraph 2 years after you read it that's the sign of a good book. “There were stories in sweat. The sweat of a woman bend double in an onion field, working fourteen hours under the hot sun, was different from the sweat of a man as he approached a checkpoint in Mexico, praying to La Santa Muerte that the federales weren't on the payroll of the enemies he was fleeing... Sweat was a body's history, compressed into jewels, beaded on the brow, staining shirts with salt. It told you everything about how a person had ended up in the right place at the wrong time, and whether they would survive another day.” Paolo Bacigalupi, has a preference for dystopian stories of environmental collapse and the Water Knife follows this trend, however this is less a story about the environmental collapse itself and the violence and desperation it creates.

The Water Knife

This an extremely faithful adaption of the first two Sandman story arcs, Preludes and Nocturnes and The Dolls House. It follows Morpheus, Dream of the Endless, as he regains his power and restores order to his realm following his escape from a century of imprisonment. The series at times struggles under the weight of it’s source material. The first three episodes feel beautiful and faithful but slightly cold and hollow. However episodes 4 and 5 are amongst the best television you will see this year and by the end of the season any missteps are forgotten. Take as a whole the series is a remarkable achievement and worth the time if you approach it with patience and an open mind. (P.S people complaining about a woke agenda and casting obviously haven’t read the Sandman or any of Neil Gaiman’s work. The Sandman was a stand out series for LBQT+ and minoriry representation it is in his literary DNA. The series has an issue about dead naming that was written in 1992)

The Sandman

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