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Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Don't Sleep on the Themes in 'The Sandman': Are Good & Evil in All of Us?

Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Women's Empowerment Network

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5.0687 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Karen Hunter invites Tremell McKenzie for a deep dive into 'The Sandman.'

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0:00.0

Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome.

0:11.8

I am Karen Hunter and on my radio show on SiriusXM every foolishness Friday, I do a K-H

0:18.4

what-to-watch list.

0:19.5

You can also check the previous list on Karen Hunter's

0:22.8

Show.com. Go to the watch list, and it's right there so you can see everything, my top five for

0:28.2

every week. Well, this week's What to Watch list, Sandman, Sandman season two. I'm going to be talking

0:34.5

briefly about that with Roderick-Marrow. But in this space, Karen Hunter is awesome. I wanted to have a deeper dive into it because as I was watching the first couple of episodes of season two, I wanted to have this conversation. So as I was prepping for the show today with my producer, Tremal McKenzie, I was like, hey, are you watching this show? And you said yes. So I was like, can we talk about it?

0:54.3

And you said, yes, reluctantly, though. So let me welcome you back to the show, Tremel McKenzie.

0:59.8

Thanks for having me. Yeah. So for me, this season two, we're seeing the devil. So I'm a student

1:07.8

mythology. I studied Edith Hamilton in high school. I really got into both the Greek

1:13.5

and the Roman mythology, Zeus and all of the folk and Hades and the river sticks. And, you know,

1:19.8

later on, of course, you read Dante's Inferno and, you know, as an English major, you're always

1:25.9

contemplating these themes of good versus evil.

1:29.2

Sandman, which centers these, and it's almost like if you like Game of Thrones, if you love

1:36.1

mythology as I do, you will really like Sandman because it brings to life the relationship between

1:42.3

dreams and death and desire and turmoil and heaven and hell,

1:47.9

you get to really play those out.

1:49.4

And I'm loving that.

1:50.8

It also reminds me of this, I think it's an HBO show where Orlando Jones played a couple of different.

1:59.1

He played Nancy.

2:02.3

You know, he's the hold of the ship and the slaves are, you know, the enslaved people and he's given his speech. It's, I think it's called

2:07.6

the city of gods or something like that. It reminds me of that. But there was something very

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