'The Sandman' Reveals Final Season Episode Titles And Bonus Episode For True Finale Date
Death truly is the final destination as the season’s clock strikes 12
It’s only been three days since Tudum, Netflix’s promotional event, where there were two more things I still intend to cover, but for a two hour show it didn’t quite feel packed with enough reveals. And yet the premiere date for the second season of Nobody Wants This, easily the streamer’s biggest hit of last year, was revealed through a prerecorded video in the days since the event. Now, they’ve announced the episode titles for season 2 of The Sandman, all twelve of them in fact, revealing a surprise twelfth episode focused on Death, played by Kirby, that will bring the series end date to July 31.
The first two volumes were previously reported for releases on July 3 and 24, with a respective six and five split. Now we know the first volume will consist of Chapter 1: “Season of Mists”, Chapter 2: “The Ruler of Hell”, Chapter 3: “More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold”, Chapter 4: “Brief Lives”, Chapter 5: “The Song of Orpheus”, and Chapter 6: “Family Blood”. Volume 2 will consist of Chapter 7: “Time and Night”, Chapter 8: “Fuel for the Fire”, Chapter 9: “The Kindly Ones”, Chapter 10: “Long Live the King”, and Chapter 11: “A Tale of Graceful Ends”. The series will end with “The Sandman Presents: Death: The High Cost of Living”. That’s two colons!
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The season’s logline reads “After a fateful reunion with his family, Dream of the Endless (Tom Sturridge) must face one impossible decision after another as he attempts to save himself, his kingdom, and the waking world from the epic fallout of his past misdeeds. To make amends, Dream must confront longtime friends and foes, gods, monsters, and mortals. But the path to forgiveness is full of unexpected twists and turns, and true absolution may cost Dream everything. Based on the beloved award-winning DC comic series, the second season of The Sandman will tell Dream’s story arc in full to its thrilling conclusion.” It is set to adapt fan-favorite comic storylines including the Season of Mists, Brief Lives, The Kindly Ones, and The Sandman: Overture collections, as well as single-issue stories including Tales in the Sand, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Song of Orpheus, Thermidor, and The Tempest.
Showrunner and executive producer Allan Heinberg recently told Entertainment Weekly that the second season explores with Dream "how to reckon his idea of who he is with who he was to all the people in his life. Dream has a very secure narrative about who he is, what his story is, what other people have done to him, and what he's done to them. But he's the hero of that story. In season 2, he realizes, 'Oh! I'm the bad guy in Nada's [Deborah Oyelade] story, I'm the bad guy in Lyta's [Razane Jammal] story, I'm the bad guy in my son's story [Ruairi O'Connor as Orpheus]. And it rocks him."
In addition, Heinberg is bringing receipts that the decision to end the series after two seasons was around two years before the full exposure of writer Neil Gaiman as sexual assault allegations surfaced. Warner Bros. Television assembled a writers' room to chart the future months before the series premiered. Heinberg recalls workshopping "lots of different versions of what season 2 could be," and then refining it further once the executives could get ahold of audience reception. Though there are 16 volumes of source material, Heinberg was quickly faced with how much fluctuation there isin Dream’s actual involvement. "There are some volumes where he just appears in two scenes," the showrunner explains. "There's so many protagonists in Sandman, but you think of the whole thing as his story."
Returning to star alongside Kirby and Sturridge will be Mason Alexander Park as Desire, and Donna Preston as Despair, Patton Oswalt as Matthew the Raven, Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer Morningstar, Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Ferdinand Kingsley as Hob Gadling, Stephen Fry as Gilbert, Asim Chaudhry as Abel, Sanjeev Bhaskar as Cain, Vanesu Samunyai as Rose Walker and the aforementioned Razane Jammal as Lyta Hall. They are joined by Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium, Adrian Lester as Destiny, Barry Sloane as “The Prodigal”, Ruairi O’Connor as Orpheus, as also mentioned by Heinberg, Freddie Fox as Loki, Clive Russell as Odin, Laurence O’Fuarain as Thor, 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.
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Sources: Tudum, Entertainment Weekly