Netflix's "The Sandman" series, adapting to the famous comic book series of fantasies written by Neil Gayman, will end after the upcoming season 2. This may come as a surprise to some fans, like A massive 10-volume comic series It must have seemed to need more than two seasons to finish everything. But According to the varietyWho stopped the news of the cancellation of the show, Netflix insiders claim they planned to stop the show with Season 2 (broadcasting later this year) for some time now:

"Sources close to Sandman have already told Diversity The "Scales" series, produced by Warner Bros. for Netflix, was expected to end with its second season when production was in the summer of 2023. The discovery of the characters of Season 2, which was thrown in May 2024, further said that the series jumped to the end of the comics much earlier than the fans expected. "

Has a certain truth about it: News that Season 2 would include characters like RubyWho didn't appear to Volume 7 in the comic books, surely surprised many fans. It is also true that Sandman is expensive show to make. That may be why Netflix waited two months after season 1 for the finally Greenle Season 2, even though the first season got Strong viewership numbers.

However, given the impossibility that Season 2 has time to make justice to all volumes of 4 to 10 (and how season 1 does not even end up covering the first three volumes), it seems more likely to give up the show. is the result of Neil Gayman's real life actions. Gayman was accused of sexually assaulting five women in A. July 2024 a series of podcasts; In January 2025, Posted magazine in Newoujork A deeper and frightening account of the alleged acts of the Gayman of violent sexual assault and bad behavior, some of which allegedly happened while his son was in the room.

If the charges against Gayman are the real reason for Netflix's cancellation of Sandman before the season 2 even to broadcast, it would not be the first project involved in the Gayman to receive similar treatment. In October 2024, Amazon Prime Video Posted That the planned season "Good Omens" will now be condensed in a 90 -minute film, with Gayman no longer involved creatively with the project. It was a big change given that Gayman was invoiced as a creator, executive producer and shower of the first two seasons.

In September 2024, Disney Paused production The film adaptation for "Cemetery Book", a children's book published by Gayman in 2008. On January 29, this year, the scene in the UK "Koralin", based on Gayman's children's book in 2002, was completely rejected. Production of the play issued a statement In addition to the announcement reading, "after careful consideration, we believe it would be impossible to continue in the context of allegations against its original author."

Meanwhile, the Sandman show Alan Heinberg claims that the upcoming second season is intended to be the last. The "Sandman" series has always been focused exclusively on the story of the dream and in 2022, when we looked at the remaining dreams of comics, we knew we had just enough story for another season, "he said on Friday. "We are extremely grateful for Netflix that we have returned the team together and gave us time and resources to make a faithful adaptation in a way that we hope to surprise and delight loyal comic book readers, as well as the fans of our show."