CONFIRMED: The Sandman has been Renewed for a Second Season

It took years of development to finally bring The Sandman to Netflix, and it looks like everything had paid off. The series was a hit, and a lot of critics liked this jump into the world of Morpheus and the Endless.

A rumor had been going around that a second season has already been greenlit by the streaming service, and now Neil Gaiman himself has confirmed The Sandman 2. Here’s his post:

The rumours are true. Netflix is thrilled that so many of you have been watching Sandman, and the thing we were all hoping would happen… has indeed happened… pic.twitter.com/zc5CrhsdZK

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) November 3, 2022

With the first season essentially covering the first volume of Gaiman’s comic run, I guess it’s safe to assume that the next season will be focusing on adapting the second book, The Doll’s House—which is its own kind of trippy.

Then again, with Sandman’s anthological nature, maybe the show can jump somewhere else in the timeline, or draw from several other points in the source material at the same time. After all, we haven’t met all of the Endless siblings in The Sandman yet; there are a total of seven, and Season One only showed us four.

A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power.

The Sandman 2 doesn’t have a release date yet, but you can check out the complete first season now on Netflix.