Netflix’s The Sandman will be returning for “more episodes” shortly as it’s officially been renewed. Here’s the lowdown on what we’ll be referring to as The Sandman season 2, including how well the show performed on Netflix, what to expect from the new episodes, and some exclusive information on what characters will feature in the next batch of episodes.
The 10-episode first season of The Sandman arrived on August 5th, 2022 and covers the first two volumes of Neil Gaiman’s seminal comics, Preludes and Nocturnes and The Doll’s House. Following the first season’s 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, there’s potential for many seasons, but will we get them?
The Sandman Netflix Renewal Status
Has The Sandman been renewed or canceled at Netflix?
Official Renewal Status: Officially renewed on November 3rd, 2022. It took three months, but The Sandman finally got the green light for a season 2 (or more new episodes, as all the press releases all state). As we’ve covered at What’s on Netflix, renewals come down to lots of factors that aren’t 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).
A renewal looked close on November 2nd when a hastily deleted Tweet (with a 21-second video clip), DC Comics let wind that we will get more episodes. The show’s future hasn’t officially been called season 2 by Netflix but rather “more episodes”. This is intentional from Netflix and likely reflects an , but we’ll continue referring to it as season 2, as that’s what people are looking for. Netflix has not gone on record as calling it a season 2 on purpose,” Mason Alexander Park has explained regarding the terminology of the show’s future. “And so, I will, from now on and in the future, and possibly until the end of the universe not refer to it as season 2 until we know what it is.”
“Millions upon millions of people have welcomed and watched and loved The Sandman on Netflix, from established Sandman fans to people who were simply curious, and then became obsessed with the Lord of Dreams, his family and their goings-on. It gives me unbelievable pleasure to say that, working with Netflix and Warner Bros., Allan Heinberg, David Goyer and I will be bringing even more of The Sandman stories to life. There are some astonishing stories waiting for Morpheus and the rest of them (not to mention more members of the Endless Family to meet). Nobody is going to be happier about this than the Sandman cast and crew: they are the biggest Sandman fans there are. And now it’s time to get back to work. There’s a family meal ahead, after all. And Lucifer is waiting for Morpheus to return to Hell…”
How well did The Sandman perform on Netflix?
Netflix Hourly Data for The Sandman
Thanks to a myriad of resources online, we can look at how well the show is performing and benchmark it against other shows. The biggest numbers we get from Netflix are the hourly viewing figures for the show, which we get every Tuesday. Over a month later, the show remains in the top 5 English shows streaming on Netflix. It’s decaying between 30-41% each week. Between July 31st and September 18th, The Sandman scored 393.14 million hours watched on Netflix globally before dropping out of Netflix’s top 10 site.
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