And For Something Completely Expected
Sandman is Canceled
To no one’s surprise, Netflix formally announced that Sandman will end with season 2.
There will be no third season for The Sandman. Netflix made the announcement Friday on social media that the upcoming second season will be its last.
The official announcement comes amid sexual assault and misconduct allegations against Neil Gaiman, who created the comic on which the series is based and developed and executive produces the Netflix series. Gaiman has denied the allegations.
In the past, it’s been Netflix’s policy to cancel a show after only two seasons unless there is a special reason not to. Stranger Things has a loyal enough following and is a high enough profile program that it’s worth renewing because it brings back subscribers.
Cobra Kai was kind of an odd duck because Netflix picked up three complete seasons (one of them unaired) from the wreckage of YouTube Red. So they only had to pay for the production of two seasons. They agreed to a sixth season because they had finally created an ad-based tier and Cobra Kai was their only show with that many seasons and a loyal audience. They still get as much ad money for the first five seasons as they do for the sixth.
Which is why Sandman was due to be renewed. There were at least five years of material available. But Gaiman is now too toxic to keep on the payroll so the show is ending this year.
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To me, this feels like the Joss Whedon scandal in that I sort of recognized decades ago that these men were sex perverts, and everyone loved them for it. Now it turns out they're a DIFFERENT KIND of sex pervert than the audience, and everyone's angry. Look, you all decided to let coomer artists control the metanarrative. This is what happens. Set some boundaries and it won't happen anymore.
Some people read a folktale, fairytale or a story about people making a deal with the Devil, they might wonder why anyone does, when Old Scratch is a cheat and a liar, but ever are there more people willing to take the ticket, whose hearts are filled with lust, greed and all else.
One might as well wonder why anyone falls for conmen.
People want to believe the fool's gold is real, that their dark master won't cast them aside once the cock cows and dawn comes.
"In my case, I was convinced that there would be a knock on the door, and a man with a clipboard (I don't know why he carried a clipboard, in my head, but he did) would be there, to tell me it was all over, and they had caught up with me, and now I would have to go and get a real job, one that didn't consist of making things up and writing them down, and reading books I wanted to read. And then I would go away quietly and get the kind of job where you don't have to make things up any more."
There's telling stories, and then, there's making things up, lying.
It's not a man with a clipboard knocking.
Death, defeated, serves Heaven now.
Heavily he knocks, and woe to the unrepentant when he enters.