After a three-year hiatus, Netflix‘s The Sandman returns for Season 2 on Thursday, July 3. The season is cut up into two volumes and one bonus episode, all set to come back out in July. The present has been shrouded at midnight cloud of the sexual assault allegations in opposition to creator Neil Gaiman, who was concerned in story improvement for Season 2. The sequence has not been renewed for Season 3 as of the time of publication, and there aren’t at present plans to come back again for extra.
Starring Tom Sturridge as Dream of the Limitless and based mostly on the Gaiman comics of the identical title, The Sandman was an enormous hit for Netflix when it first debuted in 2022. However The Sandman Season 3 is most definitely not going to occur. Right here’s why.
Is The Sandman Season 3 taking place?
The showrunner of The Sandman, Allan Heinberg, made it clear lengthy earlier than The Sandman Season 2 premiere that this may be the ultimate season. Heinberg instructed Selection that again throughout Season 1 manufacturing, the group knew that they solely had sufficient Dream supply materials to supply another adaptation of his tales.
“The Sandman sequence has all the time been targeted solely on Dream’s story, and again in 2022 once we appeared on the remaining Dream materials from the comics, we knew we solely had sufficient story for another season,” Heinberg stated in January 2025.
The Sandman Season 2 has been constantly billed by Netflix as the ultimate season. When Quantity 2 comes out later in July, that would be the sequence finale. The bonus episode about Dying (Kirby Howell-Baptiste‘s fan-favorite character) would be the ultimate episode launched from the sequence, however the contents of the bonus episode are unknown, so it’s not clear what sort of narrative connection and impression it can have on the sequence finale, if in any respect.
Except there’s a significant change to the plans, The Sandman will finish with Season 2.
When does The Sandman Season 2 come out?
The Sandman Season 2 Quantity 1 consists of six episodes and comes out on Thursday, July 3, solely on Netflix, adopted by Season 2 Quantity 2 — the ultimate 5 episodes — on Thursday, July 24, and the bonus episode on Thursday, July 31.
The Sandman Season 2 relies on the “Season of Mists” and “Transient Lives” storylines from the Gaiman comics. This storyline will see Dream/Morpheus be given the important thing to Hell after Lucifer’s (Gwendoline Christie) abdication, which can immediate a slew of legendary, mystical beings to try to persuade Dream to provide them the important thing to the darkish kingdom.
Dream’s Limitless siblings — Dying, Want (Mason Alexander Park), Despair (Donna Preston), Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles), Future (Adrian Lester), and Destruction/The Prodigal (Barry Sloane) — will probably be main characters this season, amongst different essential figures in Dream’s life. Dying, Want, and Despair had been launched in Season 1. The Sandman additionally stars Patton Oswalt, Vivienne Acheampong, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry, Jenna Coleman, Stephen Fry, and extra.
The Sandman, Season 2 Quantity 1 Premiere, Thursday, July 3, Netflix