Plot: The Sandman season 2’s plot follows Dream as he faces a death sentence from the Kindly Ones after spilling family blood by granting his son, Orpheus, a mercy killing. While Dream tries to find a way out, trickster gods like Loki manipulate events to bring about his doom. Loki kidnaps Daniel Hall, Dream’s potential successor, and fuels Lyta Hall’s rage, causing her to call upon the Kindly Ones for vengeance against Dream. In the end, the Kindly Ones’ power and Lyta’s grief cannot be stopped, even after she learns Daniel is not dead, and Daniel ultimately inherits the role of Dream by transforming and taking Dream’s memories.
This final season of sandman was good but not great in my opinion.
Part 1:
Pros: All of the architecture and effects still look good. I like the dream interactions with other characters like Thoe, Odin, Loki, Lucifer as they chewing there stay at his kingdom & & more. I feel emotion & heartfelt through most of part 1. Get to different periods shown a lot of our main character as he rambled his regrets, sadness & loss. It does a good job so far keeping the main storyline intriguing. & I’m intrigued where its heading going into part 2.
Cons: The pacing can get slow and competitive. At times the dialogue was quiet & slow deep & I a bit mad this season did get the series split into twos treatment.
Part 2:
Pros: Continuing watching the 2nd half this morning was a easy joy able start for the day. I effects & drama hacked up a lot more of this time around. Loki was like a beast in part 2. It does tackle grief a lot. I was surprised how dream’s fate was determined in episode 10. It does give you suspense, stressed & does keep us daunting and I like how the final episode did end on a happy ending.
Cons: I thought the confrontation with the three witches was disappointing. I didn’t feel there wasn’t prevalent deaths or no need to bring back afterwards. The stories in the part didn’t had time or consequential & the plot supper’s because being split into parts that bought my enjoyment of the season so far.
Special:
Pros: It is messaging about death and you don’t know what you got till it’s gone are very answered. The acting was so good definitely from Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s Death. I like the exchanges between death & Sexton disgusting these messages & The ending was bittersweet and to the full season.
Cons: The pacing cost a white to get going. The deep atmosphere from previous 2 parts wasn’t that featured. The villain Theo wasn’t threatening & death’s passing was unexpected & I still think this shouldn’t been split into 3 separate one week apart.
Based on The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg
Developed by Neil Gaiman, David S. Goyer, Allan Heinberg
Showrunner: Allan Heinberg
Starring: Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kirby, Mason Alexander Park, Donna Preston, Jenna Coleman, Niamh Walsh, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Kyo Ra, Stephen Fly, Razane Jammal, Sandra James-Young, Patton Oswalt & Mark Hamill.
Music by David Buckley
Executive producers: Allan Heinberg, David S. Goyer, Neil Gaiman, Mike Barker, Jamie Childs
Producers: Samson Mücke, Iain Smith, Alexander Newman-Wise, Andrew Cholerton, Erin Vitali
Production Location: United Kingdom
Cinematography: Will Baldy, George Steel, Sam Heasman
Editors: Daniel Gabbe, Shoshanah Tanzer, Jamin Bricker, Kelly Stuyvesant, Matt Ramsey
Production companies: PurePop Inc., The Blank Corporation, Phantom Four, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television
Network: Netflix
Casts & Characters:
Main
- Tom Sturridge as Lord Dream / Morpheus, the personification of dreams and nightmares and the ruler of the Dreaming
- Sturridge also voices Dream’s black cat counterpart in the episode “Dream of a Thousand Cats”
- The second Corinthian (season 2), a nightmare that shares the appearance and memories of the original Corinthian, but does not indulge in killing
- Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, the librarian of the Dreaming and its property caretaker in Dream’s absence
- Patton Oswalt as the voice of Matthew the Raven, Dream’s emissary who was a human until he died in his sleep and reincarnated as a raven by Lucienne
Recurring
- Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, an occult detective and Dream’s close ally. Coleman plays two versions of the character: the present-day descendant based on John Constantine and her identical eighteenth-century ancestor Lady Johanna Constantine.[5][6][7]
- Sanjeev Bhaskar and Asim Chaudhry as Cain and Abel, residents of the Dreaming based on the biblical Cain and Abel who have a pet baby gargoyle named Goldie
- Nina Wadia, Dinita Gohil, and Souad Faress as the Fate Mother, Fate Maiden, and Fate Crone, the triple deity collectively known as the Kindly Ones who have aspects that have been referred to as the Fates, the Graeae, and the Erinyes
- Clare Higgins as Mad Hettie, a 280-year-old homeless woman and acquaintance of Johanna Constantine
- Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer Morningstar, the ruler of Hell. This series’ incarnation of Lucifer is much closer to the character’s original depiction in the comics than his depiction in the 2016 Lucifer television series. Neil Gaiman noted that it would be difficult to reconfigure the Lucifer version (portrayed by Tom Ellis) so he would fit back into The Sandman.
- Cassie Clare as Mazikeen of the Lilim, a devoted ally of Lucifer Morningstar
- Umulisa Gahiga (season 2) as Queen Nada, a prehistoric African queen who was once romantically involved with Dream
- Mason Alexander Park as Desire, the personification of desire and Dream’s sibling
- Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, the personification of death and Dream’s kinder, wiser older sister
- Ferdinand Kingsley as Hob Gadling, Dream’s friend who has lived for hundreds of years
- Donna Preston as Despair, the personification of despair, Dream’s sister, and Desire’s twin
- Vanesu Samunyai as Rose Walker, a young woman searching for her lost brother who becomes a prey of the Corinthian
- Razane Jammal as Hippolyta “Lyta” Hall, Rose’s friend and a widow mourning her husband
- Stephen Fry as Gilbert / Fiddler’s Green, a dream and a personification of a location in the Dreaming who appears in the form of a mysterious gentleman and becomes Rose’s bodyguard
- Mark Hamill as the voice of Mervyn Pumpkinhead, a chain-smoking janitor with a jack-o’-lantern for a head. Nicholas Anscombe provides the motion capture for Mervyn’s body.
- Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium (season 2), the personification of delirium, formerly the personification of delight, and Dream’s youngest sibling
- Adrian Lester as Destiny (season 2), the personification of destiny and Dream’s eldest sibling
- Ann Skelly as Nuala (season 2), a fairy servant and representative of Faerie
- Douglas Booth as Cluracan (season 2), Nuala’s brother and a fairy courtier who serves the king and queen of Faerie
- Freddie Fox as Loki (season 2), the Norse trickster god
- Jack Gleeson as Puck / Robin Goodfellow (season 2), a mischievous hobgoblin from Faerie
- Ruta Gedmintas as Queen Titania (season 2), the queen of Faerie who is an old friend of Dream
- Barry Sloane as Destruction (season 2), the personification of destruction and Dream’s brother who has abandoned his realm and duties
- Steve Coogan as the voice of Barnabas (season 2), a talking dog and Destruction’s companion
Guest
- Laurie Kynaston as Alex Burgess, Roderick Burgess’ son
- Geoffrey Beevers (season 2) as older Alex Burgess
- Christopher Colquhoun as Paul McGuire (season 1), Alex Burgess’ closest friend and lover
- Chris Gordon as young Paul McGuire
- Tedroy Newell as older Paul McGuire (season 2)
- Meera Syal as Erica (season 1), a vicar known as “Ric the Vic” who seeks out Johanna Constantine’s help with a demonic possession
- Sarah Niles as Rosemary (season 1), a good Samaritan woman who helps John retrieve his ruby
- Martyn Ford as Squatterbloat (season 1), a gatekeeper of Hell
- Munya Chawawa as Choronzon, a demon-duke of Hell
- Ernest Kingsley Jr. as Kai’ckul, an aspect of Dream seen through the eyes of Nada
- Emma Duncan as Bette Munroe (season 1), a waitress and one of John Dee’s victims
- Steven Brand as Marsh Janowski (season 1), a cook and one of John Dee’s victims
- Laurie Davidson as Mark Brewer (season 1), a diner guest and one of John Dee’s victims
- Daisy Head as Judy Talbot (season 1), a diner guest and one of John Dee’s victims
- James Udom and Lourdes Faberes as Gary and Kate Fletcher (season 1), two diner guests who become John Dee’s victims
- Luke Allen-Gale (season 2) as Will Shaxberd, an aspiring playwright
- Will Keen as older William Shakespeare (season 2)
- Lenny Henry as:
- Bernie Capax (season 2), a 12,000-year-old lawyer and friend of Destruction
- Wil Coban (season 2) as Lord Azazel, one of the Lords of Hell. Coban portrays his humanoid form and voices his ragged opening into darkness form in the second season.
- Nonso Anozie as the voice of the Wyvern, one of the Gatekeepers who guard the entrance to Dream’s castle
- Jo Martin (season 2) as the voice of the Griffin, one of the Gatekeepers who guard the entrance to Dream’s castle
- Paul Rhys (season 2) as the voice of the Hippogriff, one of the Gatekeepers who guard the entrance to Dream’s castle
- Melissanthi Mahut as Calliope, the ancient Greek Muse of epic poetry who is Dream’s ex-wife and Orpheus’ mother
- Arthur Darvill as Richard “Ric” Madoc, a struggling author who imprisons Calliope against her will
- Clive Russell as Odin (season 2), the Norse god of war and wisdom and the ruler of Asgard
- Laurence O’Fuarain as Thor (season 2), the Norse god of thunder who is Odin’s son and Loki’s brother
- Phoebe Nicholls as Taramis (season 2), the chef de cuisine of the Dreaming
- Olamide Candide-Johnson as Merkin, Mother of Spiders (season 2), a demonic envoy serving Lord Azazel who produces spiders from her womb and spider legs from her torso
- Kristofer Kamiyasu as Susano-o-no-Mikoto (season 2), the Japanese kami of the sea and storms
- Andre Flynn as the Servant of Lord Kilderkin (season 2), an unnamed representative of Kilderkin of the Lords of Order whose master’s messages manifest inside a cubic box
- Lyla Quinn and Sue Muand as Shivering Jemmy (season 2), a representative of the Lords of Chaos. Quinn portrays Shivering Jemmy as a young girl, while Muand portrays her as an elderly woman.
- Jake Fairbrother as Remiel (season 2), an angel sent by the Creator to oversee who Dream is going to give the key to Hell to
- Rilwan Abiola Owokoniran as Duma (season 2), a silent angel and Remiel’s companion who joins him to oversee Dream’s decision
- Royce Pierreson as King Auberon (season 2), the king of Faerie and husband of Titania
- Indya Moore as Wanda Mannering (season 2), a transgender concierge working for the god Pharamond
- Amber Rose Revah as Ishtar (season 2), the Mesopotamian goddess of war and love, and Destruction’s former lover
- Ruairi O’Connor as Orpheus (season 2), a Thracian bard who is the son of Dream and Calliope
- Ella Rumpf as Eurydice (season 2), Orpheus’ deceased wife who was condemned to the Greek underworld after her untimely death
- Garry Cooper as Hades (season 2), the ancient Greek god of the dead and king of the underworld
- Antonia Desplat as Persephone (season 2), the ancient Greek goddess of spring, wife of Hades, and queen of the underworld
- Jonathan Slinger as Maximilien Robespierre (season 2), a French statesman and instigator of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
- Rufus Sewell as Time (season 2), the personification of time and father of the Endless
- Tanya Moodie as Night (season 2), the personification of night and mother of the Endless
- Rosie Ede as Mrs. Shore (season 2), a nurse assigned to watch over Daniel
- Jacob Anderson as Daniel Hall (season 2), Lyta and Hector Hall’s son and the first child born in the Dreaming, who is later transformed into an adult and becomes the new Dream
- Colin Morgan as Sexton Furnival (season 2), a journalist on the verge of suicide until he meets the mortal form of Death
- Jonno Davies as Theo (season 2), a club promoter who attempts to harness Death’s powers to revive his girlfriend
I recommend watching the first season before seeing this new one all on Netflix.
Rating: 7 out of 10 Stars
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