Were it not for Neil Gaiman getting caught up in a sexual misconduct scandal, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of The Sandman comics could have run for much longer given how much source material there is to be pulled from. But you can see in the new trailer for the show’s second and final season that the streamer is going to try to fit in as many of Dream’s remaining stories as it possibly can.
Though the dead aren’t meant to be able to escape hell, there is nothing Dream (Tom Sturridge) won’t do to free his beloved Nada (Deborah Oyelade) from eternal damnation in The Sandman‘s new trailer. Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) would like nothing more than to make good on their promise to one day murder Dream — an action that would plunge the mortal and magical realms into chaos. But with so much on the line, it seems like all of Dreams’s Endless siblings — Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), Destiny (Adrian Lester), Destruction (Barry Sloane), Despair (Donna Preston), Desire (Mason Alexander Park), and Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles) — are going to be willing to help him do the impossible.
As Gizmodo notes, the trailer’s shots make it clear that the new season is going to tackle a number of classic The Sandman comics stories including “Tales in the Sand,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “The Song of Orpheus” over the course of its 12 episodes. That’s probably going to make the season feel pretty dense, but Netflix has (smartly, to be honest) decided to release the episodes in a few batches. Volume 1 debuts with six episodes on July 3rd, Volume 2 drops July 24th, and The Sandman‘s final episode premieres on July 31st.