"The Sandman" Season 2 First Glimpse Is Here

Netflix revealed Thursday the first look at Season 2 of the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s DC graphic novel series "The Sandman" as part of the streamer’s Geeked Week.

The Geeked Week event is intended to showcase new and returning series, in addition to positioning Netflix as the home of Asian horror and sci-fi genre content.

The series is based on Neil Gaiman's comic book magnum opus. It stars Tom Sturridge as Morpheus/Dream, one of seven eternal entities who control crucial aspects of existence.

The first season of "The Sandman" covered the story of "The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes", a collection of comic book issues that follows Dream’s capture by a cult in the early 1900s and his subsequent release a century later.

The new season will involve the “Season of Mists” storyline from the comics, in which Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) abdicates control of Hell and presents Morpheus, aka Dream (Tom Sturridge), with the key to its gates, causing many immortals to try to convince Morpheus to give the key to them.

The behind-the-scenes featurette provides a first look at one of those contingents: the Norse gods Thor (Laurence O’Fuarain), Loki (Freddie Fox), and Odin (Clive Russell), who attend what executive producer and showrunner Allan Heinberg calls a “banquet” that Dream throws “for all the visiting deities and gods and fairies.”

It also teases the introduction of Dream’s other siblings: Destiny (Adrian Lester), Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles), the Prodigal (Barry Sloane), who attend a “family dinner” of the rest of the Endless, Death (Kirby), Desire (Mason Alexander Park), and Despair (Donna Preston).

Other newcomers joining for Season 2 include Ruairi O’Connor as Dream’s son Orpheus, Ann Skelly as Nuala, Douglas Booth as Cluracan, Jack Gleeson as Puck, Indya Moore as Wanda, and Steve Coogan as the voice of Barnabas the dog. 

Gaiman — who has been accused of sexual assault by several women, which he has denied — neither appears nor is mentioned in the featurette.  Production on two other Gaiman adaptations, the final season of Prime Video’s series “Good Omens” and Disney’s feature adaptation of “Graveyard Book,” have been suspended in the wake of the allegations. 

Season 2 of “The Sandman,” which is produced by Warner Bros. TV, is set to debut in 2025.