Polygon.com / 31.07.25

Netflix's The Sandman fleshes out one of the comic's most mysterious characters

The second and final season of Netflixs The Sandman opens with Destiny (Adrian Lester), the eldest of the Endless, calling a family meeting. Its a messy affair that involves a lot of the immortal siblings sniping at each other while complaining about how fractious theyve become. The Endless dynamic mirrors sort of my own family dynamic, in that theyre not necessarily the people you would choose, but they are your family, and there is love there, The Sandman showrunner Allan Heinberg told Polygon in a Zoom call. If you are generous and you want to cultivate those relationships, it is within your power to do it. In the same spirit, Heinberg wanted to cultivate the relationship between Dream (Tom Sturridge) and a key character from the end of The Sandman comics, the most mysterious figure in the entire story. For that, he went to series author Neil Gaiman for permission to add some crucial context. It allowed us to go off-panel in terms of the comic book story, Heinberg said. I wanted to ...
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