S1E5
24/7
The Sandman · 2022-08-05 · 55 min
FLICKFEEL
76
from 40 comments
COMMUNITY
—
nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
With Morpheus caught off guard, John settles in at a diner to watch the people around him — and put his theory about truth and lies to a terrifying test.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
33
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
63
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 40 comments — 21 said when.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Very little of it ever resolves.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
➖ steady — holds one level all the way
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“The build-up is absolutely intense, I was literally on the edge of my seat.”
anal-yst▲ 242about 0–75% inread it ↗
“the tension is still able to build and is finally punctuated by the end”
StardustVT▲ 145about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Morpheus showing up at the diner and confronting Dee is my favorite scene in the show so far.”
snapdragonpowerbomb▲ 106about 33–66% inread it ↗
“the ending felt like finally getting out of an elevator”
uselessusernamewbk▲ 60about 75–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Jamie Childs
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Mason Alexander Park as Desire
Niamh Walsh as Young Ethel Cripps
Joely Richardson as Ethel Cripps
Emma Duncan as Bette Munroe
Steven Brand as Marsh Janowski
Laurie Davidson as Mark Brewer
Daisy Head as Judy Talbot
James Udom as Garry Fletcher