If you're gonna be commenting on something that's under spoiler tags you should probably consider using them too?

I think it's the wages of the fact that the audience is mostly not people who spend a ton of time online like me, and, it seems, like you. Like, for me, I would have absolutely shit myself if every one of the Children had been a pretty popular meme, just an array of Pepe and the Why You Lyin guy and Kermit in a…

A lot of people seem pretty confused, which I think isn't just the lack of explanation but the way they ended the episode so abruptly. (I think it could have used a button, especially because it was so clearly evoking a lynching.) But hopefully they'll be able to keep up enough to find their footing; the book is kind…

They've been talking recently about maybe doing Anansi Boys as a spin-off show, if things go well.

Yes.

I dunno about that but there is definitely a male/male sex scene coming up

This is true. I think they made a deliberate choice to make things more heightened—for example, IIRC Shadow doesn't have dreams of the Bone Orchard or the Buffalo or any of the rest of it this early. My bet is that they felt they had to set the tone for what this show is going to be right from the start, and that if…

I think they're also adding in things that Gaiman had to cut from the original version, as well as expanding certain characters and so on. He's got major input into all of it.

He knew by the end; I think it's sort of inherent in offering himself to her, which he did.

They already renewed it for season 2.

The showrunners have already said they'd love to do a Sandman show if they could, but I dunno if they'll be given the chance—I think it's Sony that has the rights?

I really liked the first episode. At the very end, I struggled a little bit (perhaps in part because I haven't reread the book in a while), because what the Children were doing to Shadow didn't seem to fit with Technical Boy's whole thing—it's all digital, VR, tech tech tech, "we're going to delete you" and then they…

Well, I am clearly benefiting from coming into this never having read the books or seen the prior movie, because I am loving it. I've had a really hard time watching anything remotely stylish or substantive for the last few months (combination of election blues, hyperfocus on the deluge of news since inauguration, and…

That was genuinely the first time I ever thought about where the name "Nickelodeon" came from. I learned something!

They had an entire sequence showing their simultaneous births?

I'm unbelievably late—I had the privilege of writing my own recap/reviews elsewhere, and so I stopped following the ones here—but I had to reply to this. Carter/Shaw was my beloved ship that never got the chance to sail. I'll remember the scenes where Shaw goes all gooey over Carter for the rest of my life, I swear.

Nothing in the way he interacts with Dolores suggests this sort of thing.

Jumping on the train: https://s-media-cache-ak0.p…

There was also the time he was repulsed by a suspect they were interviewing who made it a point to creep on women doing yoga across the street.

I honestly think this is pointless, but I'll say for the record that the issue is well-known under both names, and that if you want to argue it definitely is the same ship then you've given your answer to the paradox: this thing, all of whose parts have been replaced, is the same thing. Okay, great. But I maintain…