We open on Dream feeding pigeons in the park and doing the world’s biggest-ever sulk. He catches an errant ball without looking, and as its owner retrieves it, KIRBY HOWELL-BAPTISTE!!!!! walks up. (The owner of the ball is called Franklin. He’s adorable, but he’s also a race-bent character who I know is going to die by the end of the episode, which like… agh! This is happening too often! Please, Sandman casting people, contemplate the ramifications of these choices!) KIRBY HOWELL-BAPTISTE!!!!! as Death is the best casting in an altogether well-cast series. She’s warm and funny, and she has an…
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