The first season of The Sandman was watched by a lot of people, but Netflix still hasn’t renewed it and frankly it’s starting to give me a stress headache.
I love The Sandman comic books by Neil Gaiman. I loved the first season of The Sandman on Netflix; I had my doubts that someone could adapt Gaiman’s ambitious vision into a live-action TV show, but it happened. I badly want a second season, and I’m not alone; people watched the series for well over a billion minutes during the first full week after its release, and it stayed competitive for long after that.
In fact, pretty much everyone agrees that a second season would be great…except for Netflix itself, who are playing a cruel game by withholding a renewal announcement like this. All they have to do is say “go ahead,” and the producers could hit the ground running. Scripts are ready to go and even the VFX department has “a really wonderful framework for what we think season 2 looks like,” as VFX supervisor Ian Markiewicz told ScreenRant.
Everything looks so promising that some people are getting ahead of themselves. Actor Miles Gaston — seen most recently as Supersonic on the third season of The Boys — saw Gaiman tweet about that interview and assumed it meant that The Sandman had been greenlit for a second season. Gaiman corrected him and gave an update to the rest of us:
"We don’t have a season 2. But the scripts have been written and the VFX department has been working on it. Read the interview."
“Read the interview.” Hee. Perhaps a bit testy after the continued lack of news? So are we all.
For real, Netflix’s failure to renew The Sandman is beginning to feel like a personal attack. I know they have budgets to balance, but have they also considered that I really really really wanna watch it? If that sway Ted Sarandos in his tower then nothing will.
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