When Will ‘The Sandman’ Season 2 Arrive on Netflix After ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Cancellation?

Late last week before the holiday weekend began, Netflix announced the cancellation of Dead Boy Detectives after one season. The spin-off of The Sandman landed with a complicated history after the series moved from Max to Netflix amid DCU chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran’s unfolding new plan for Max-DC series and movies.

At first, this seemed fine and even promising. Netflix felt like an ideal home for the show, which wasn’t integral to The Sandman TV series but was based on characters who spun off Neil Gaiman’s comic series as a separate title under DC’s Vertigo imprint. As a nice touch, a few actors from The Sandman TV series made cameo appearances in the newer series.

Dead Boy Detectives did find an enthused following on Netflix. However, as Variety noted while exclusively breaking the cancellation news, the show’s streaming numbers were not extraordinary despite landing on the Netflix Top 10 English TV series list for several weeks. This rollout also followed Netflix’s four-month-long decision period for renewing The Sandman, which Gaiman previously revealed was due to the show being quite expensive in an era when Netflix has stopped rushing to renewal judgments.

The second season of The Sandman remains in production, but now, Dead Boy Detectives fans are more eager than ever for updates on The Sandman.

After Netflix announced this month’s Geeked Week on Tuesday morning, the corresponding Twitter/X thread filled with complaints about the Dead Boy Detectives cancellation and the absence of a defined release date for The Sandman’s next chapter.

Netflix has stayed silent on the release date issue, and The Sandman will undergo a lengthy post-production process for the effects-heavy series. In other words, 2025 seems likely although not guaranteed. However, we might receive an answer during the week of Sept. 16-19 because Netflix did include references to The Sandman in the Geeked Week trailer.

Additionally, Netflix has not elaborated further on Dead Boy Detectives’ cancellation. However, star Jayden Revri, who portrayed Charles Rowland, acknowledged the sad news on Instagram. He wrote, “As this chapter closes I can’t help but reminisce on how incredible the last 3 years have been. I absolutely love this show and all of the amazing characters and the lessons they teach. None of them would’ve been brought to life if it wasn’t for my incredible co-stars, who taught me more than I could ever explain in writing.” In response, co-star George Rextrew, who portrayed Edwin Payne, wrote, “My Charles forever.”

Prior to cancellation, Dead Boy Detectives co-showrunners Steve Yockey and Beth Schwartz revealed that they had planned future cameos from the Endless. Those characters will now solely remain on The Sandman for a second season that will adapt the fourth graphic novel, Season of Mists. From there, nobody with authority has definitively declared whether this TV series, which debuted three decades after The Sandman’s comic book inception, will move into a third chapter.

The Sandman and Dead Boy Detectives are both currently streaming first seasons on Netflix.