Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ to End With Season 2 at NetflixNetflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s “The Sandman” will end with its upcoming second season.
“The Sandman” Season 2 has been a long time coming. The first season debuted in August 2022, and it wasn’t renewed at Netflix until November of that year. At that time, Netflix was also hesitant to label it as a second season at all, choosing instead to say it was “a continuation of ‘The Sandman’ world,” and wouldn’t commit to an episode count. Variety has now confirmed the second season was intended to be the last prior to filming.
Confirmation of the show’s conclusion comes on the heels of several sexual misconduct accusations leveled at Gaiman, who created “The Sandman” DC comics and developed the TV series. However, prior to the accusations first leveled against Gaiman in a Tortoise Media podcast in July 2024, sources close to “The Sandman” were already telling Variety the pricey series, produced by Warner Bros. Television for Netflix, was intending to end with its second season when production was underway in summer 2023. The reveal of Season 2 characters that were cast in May 2024 further indicated the series was jumping to the end of the comics much sooner than fans anticipated.
The second season of “The Sandman” follows the “Season of Mists” storyline from Gaiman’s comics, in which Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) abdicates control of Hell and presents Morpheus, aka Dream (Tom Sturridge), with the key to its gates, causing many immortals to try to convince Morpheus to give the key to them.
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