After spending decades in development hell, a live-action adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comic book series The Sandman actually made it into production and was released into the world as a Netflix series in August of 2022. (Read our review Here.) Season 2 will be coming along sometime in 2025… and that will be the end. Variety reports that Netflix has cancelled the show. Which, if you’ve been keeping track of what’s going on with Gaiman, is not a surprise at all.

Showrunner Allan Heinberg provided a statement in which he said that Gaiman’s current issues had nothing to do with the cancellation. Rather, they just ran out of story. Heinberg said, “The Sandman series has always been focused exclusively on Dream’s story, and back in 2022, when we looked at the remaining Dream material from the comics, we knew we only had enough story for one more season. We...