Netflixs The Sandman has now been streaming on Netflix for well over a month and were yet to learn whether or not itll return for a season 2 but there hasnt been any news. Heres the lowdown on season 2 of The Sandman including how well its performing on Netflix what to expect from season 2 and more. 

The 10-episode season which arrived on August 5th covers the first two volumes of Neil Gaimans seminal comics Preludes and Nocturnes and The Dolls House. Following the first seasons release we saw a bonus episode drop on August 19th 2022.

What we see in the first season of The Sandman merely scratches the surface. The Sandman comic spans 10 core volumes plus a prequel and many spinoffs in the wider Sandman Universe. If Netflix wants to complete the saga theres potential for many seasons but will we get them?

The Sandman has not yet been renewed for a second season and after a months wait weve revised our prediction to the show now having a 50/50 chance of getting renewed.

As weve covered at Whats on Netflix renewals come down to lots of factors that arent always visible to us viewers. You can read about some renewal factors that undoubtedly apply to The Sandman here. One of the big things for The Sandman will undoubtedly be its completion rate (the number of people who go on to watch the entire season).

The debut season ends on a cliffhanger and the team is on record saying theyre keen to adapt the rest of the comics.

Neil Gaiman has been vocal about season 2 via Twitter. Heres what hes revealed so far regarding the future of the show

Gaiman said that even being number 1 in the top 10s may not be enough to get a season 2 adding Because Sandman is a really expensive show

Scripts for Season 2 were written this year so theyre ready to go if we get another season.

Asked if the show could be revived elsewhere if Netflix cancels Neil Gaiman said it could.

Ian Markiewicz one of the VFX supervisors on The Sandman spoke about season 2 saying

We have a really wonderful framework for what we think season 2 looks like. Allan is still touching up scripts and reworking things but we have an arc. Up until pretty recently I think maybe even two weeks or so Gary our production designer myself and Allan meet over lunch and we will do a script over that meeting. Its like Okay lets look at 201 and well do our breakdowns together where we do page turns on 201 and we say Okay what do we think? Where can we film this? Can we film this in a real space? If not what do we need to build if we need to build it? Are we building this as a physical set or can it be a building as a virtual set or a combination thereof? Is it physical to a certain extent and then digital beyond that? Just trying to break each one down to be like Whats the most value for this whats the most sensible way that covers the need for what we need it to be? That process is happening now which is great and its really fun and exciting to be able to sort of have season 1 and behind us to know what we feel worked there things that we wanted to sort of finesse further and how that impacts our approach for season 2.