Netflix's The Sandman season 2 is the show's final season. While there's more than enough source material for the show to cover up to five seasons, the streamer only gave the team enough budget for 12 more episodes. However, the writers managed to condense the entire story into one more season, and that meant playing out the story's epic final arc.
In the final episodes, which cover volumes 9 and 10 of the comic, Dream faces punishment from the Furies after spilling family blood. In episode 6, he kills his son Orpheus (Ruairi O'Connor)—an act of love, putting him out of his misery. Ultimately, he faces his punishment and is killed by the Furies, but Dream of the Endless is reborn in the form of Daniel Hall, the child of Lyta and Hector, who was conceived in The Dreaming.
Fans had been ardently trying to figure out who was playing Daniel in the months leading up to the release, but the casting was kept under lock and key. When seeing Interview With The Vampire's Jacob Anderson walk out in the episode, viewers were surprised, but the casting felt right. He is gentler and more innocent than Morpheus, with a human side to him that his predecessor never showed.
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"I think Jacob brings joy wherever he goes," showrunner Allan Heinberg told TV Insider. "Jacob is so earnest, but not naive, and open. You saw in that scene with Lyta — [he is so] very moral, and he brings such grace to the role, and such humanity to the role, which, as you saw through the series, Morpheus struggled with the entire time. Humanity to Morpheus, especially in the beginning, it’s a bad word to him, humanity. He [just] can’t relate."
When it came to casting Daniel, it was always Anderson. In fact, Heinberg penned the scripts with him in mind. "Just seeing the variety in his work, seeing the core of his work, how intelligent he is, and how emotionally available he is," he said. "I basically wrote the script with Jacob in mind."
With the Sandman comics being part of the DC Universe, Heinberg doesn't expect Daniel Hall to cameo in any further DC projects (as he does in the comics). "I don’t know," he said. "We, from the outset, we started Sandman, before James Gunn and Peter Safran took over, and we very clearly said we are separate."
Funnily enough, Anderson is yet another former Game of Thrones actor cast in The Sandman. He joins Gwendoline Christie, Charles Dance, Jack Gleeson, and Clive Russell. But who's complaining?
The Sandman season 2 is now streaming on Netflix, with a bonus episode releasing on July 31. Meanwhile, Interview With The Vampire returns to AMC sometime in 2026.
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