Netflix cancels this series whose long -awaited season 2 will be the last

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Bad news for fans of Sandman : the series Netflix will stop at the end of its second season, the broadcast of which is Expected in 2025 on the streaming platform.

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The announcement was made, however, specifying that this had been planned for a long time, even if his coincides (strangely) timing with the accumulation of accusations of sexual assault against his creator, Neil Gaiman.

Conclude the dream story

According to the showrunner of SandmanAllan Heinberg, it's been since the start that the creators of the series have intended to finish the adventures of the sandman with this second season.

Remember: the first season of Sandman Arrived on Netflix in August 2022 and experienced a plebiscite with criticism and subscribers to the streaming platform. However, it was not before November of that year that Netflix announced to renew the series to “New episodes,” The streaming giant being reluctant to call it as a real season 2.

These episodes then entered filming in 2023 and, according to Varietyit was from that moment that this season 2 was designed to be the last of Sandman.

“The Sandman series has always focused exclusively on the dream story and, in 2022, when we looked at what we had to tell about its history in the comics, we knew we only had what to do a more season “ explained Heinberg in a publication posted on X.

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“We are extremely grateful to Netflix to have brought our team back and to have given us the time and the resources necessary to achieve a faithful adaptation which, we hope, will surprise and please the readers of the comics as well as to fans of our series. “

The embarrassing shadow of Neil Gaiman

Season 2 of Sandman So is still expected on Netflix this year, but it will mark the end of the series. An announcement which is not ultimately completely surprising for several reasons: first, the series is expensive to produce and has not really met extraordinary success on Netflix in terms of audiences.

But it is also and above all tainted by the multiple accusations of sexual assault which is the subject of Neil Gaiman, author of the comics which inspire the series, and co-creator of the show with Heinberg and David S. Goyer.

Indeed, since the first accusations emerged in a podcast In July 2024, many projects involving Gaiman were canceled or modified. So the series Dead Boy Detectives (derived from the universe of Sandman) will have no season 2 on Netflix and the last season of Good omens On Video Prime has been drastically shortened.

Netflix did not rule on the situation in which the author finds himself but it seems not surprising that the platform does not continue his collaboration with the latter and that the judgment of Sandmaneven if it would have been decided in 2023, arranged in the end a little everyone.

No broadcast date for these last episodes has so far been communicated. We only know that this season 2, which takes up the intrigue of the comic strip Mist seasonwill see Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) give up controls of underworld and give dream (Tom Sturridge) the key to its doors, then leading many other immortal beings to visit him to try to convince him to give them this sesame.