’The Sandman’ Season 2: What To Know Amid Neil Gaiman Cancellations
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After ’Dead Boy Detectives’ cancellation, several Neil Gaiman projects shuttered. What do we know about ’The Sandman’s second season?

Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman had the longest of mistiest paths to becoming a TV show, three decades after the DC Vertigo comic’s debut. The hesitation was down to the fantasy author resisting several awful movie attempts, and too much could have gone wrong in adapting the infinitely layered fantasy story, but Netflix brought a lugubrious and stunning spectacle to screens (full of Life Amid Death) as the first three graphic novels were initially adapted.

The second season has taken years to come together, which isn’t unheard of for a Netflix fantasy series with heavy VFX. Sadly, this could also conceivably be the final season, given that several Gaiman projects (like Amazon’s Good Omens) have been cut short, cancelled, or apparently indefinitely paused in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against the author (as initially reported by Tortoise Media). Those accusations do make the show’s bonus “Calliope” story hit differently than when the episode first surfaced, but that’s not a discussion for today. The Sandman‘s second season is still coming, so let’s (awkwardly) sift through what we can expect.

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How many episodes will we see? The first season brought 10 initial episodes and a bonus hour, but Netflix has not offered a count for the second season. However, Redanian Intelligence has passed on the rumor that we could see 12 new episodes of The Sandman when the show returns. This seems too good to be true, so we will await official word on that note, but the second season will leap headlong into Season Of Mists, the fourth graphic novel (considered the favorite volume of many The Sandman fans).

  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu
    2·
    2 days ago

    Well Netflix doesn’t do more than 2 seasons anyways so let’s hope what we can get is good enough!

  • Zip2
    2·
    2 days ago

    I enjoyed the first series, but then I also enjoyed (most of) American Gods, so I’m not getting my hopes up.

  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    3 days ago

    I never read the comics, and I just watched the show on a whim a while ago, but I found it fascinating. The episode in the diner was almost surreal.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 days ago

      I can’t put into words how amazing the comics are. I generally suck at getting people to try things, but I’m telling you, do yourself a favor and read them. I am not a comic guy; the medium usually falls flat for me. But holy crap the Sandman comics are literal works of art, and the stories they tell are so unique; I’d often find myself having to take several moments after finishing one, just sitting in silence… processing.

      I think the first season of the show covers the first 3-4 volumes, and they mostly nailed them. Very little is cut out or changed, and anything that is, is usually done with good reason, such as updating things from the 1980’s to the 2020’s.

      It makes me really conflicted to hear the allocations about Gaiman. If there was ever something that deserved to have the art separated from the artist, it’s the Sandman comics. I like to think they have grown much bigger than one man, but maybe I’m just trying to justify my inability to see them as tainted. It just feels that to hide them away due to the actions of the author, taken years after he created them, would be a terrible loss. Perhaps that’s what makes Gaiman’s actions all the more betraying.

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 days ago

        I wanted to say, I justed downloaded the first volume of the Sandman comic from my local public library. Free if people want to try public libraries!

        They got other volumes and I’ll be sure to read them when I finish up my Red Rising read.

  • mannycalavera
    4·
    3 days ago

    We liked the first season and are looking forward to the next one.

    What did he do?