How many episodes are in The Sandman?

The Sandman has 12 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Sandman premiere?

The Sandman premieres on 2025-07-03.

Is The Sandman a new series?

The Sandman is a returning series (Season 2).

The Sandman(2022)

Also known as Sandman • DC’s The Sandman • DC Vertigo’s The Sandman

Archived · Netflix

7.61812 eps

S02

DramaAction & AdventureFantasyHorror

ON AIR: JUL 3Season 2Archived listing

What to Expect

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The Sandman follows Dream, an ancient personification of dreams, as he works to recover what was taken from him during a long captivity. The structure is episodic and deliberately paced, each chapter functioning almost as its own contained story, with its own mood and consequences, before the larger arc reasserts itself.

Strange human encounters do a lot of the work here. Dream moves through situations that range from quietly unsettling to genuinely horrifying, and the horror rarely announces itself loudly; it accumulates. The cosmic scale of his power sits in constant friction with the smallness and oddness of the mortal lives he brushes against, and that friction produces something closer to dread and wonder than conventional fantasy action.

Best for

mythic dark fantasy, dreamlike horror and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Action & Adventure

Commitment

Season 2 · 12 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.

Watch Next If This Is Your Lane

Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.

The Witcher

Netflix • Oct 30, 2025

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Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

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Strongest Match

The Sandman and The Witcher both deliver dark fantasy where a lone, myth-touched figure moves through grim encounters, carrying personal damage into every scene. Expect monster-of-the-week tension with brutal fights and moral compromises, plus a slow tightening toward bigger consequences, but with more grit and speed than Dream’s dreamlike dread.

American Horror Story

FX • Sep 24, 2026

DramaMystery

An anthology horror series explores different characters and unsettling locations, from a house with a murderous past and a troubled asylum to a witch coven, freak show, hotel, remote farmhouse, cult, supernatural apocalypse, and summer camp. Each season presents a distinct story, with some subtle connections between them.

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Why this pick

The Sandman and American Horror Story share a taste for horror that feels storybook theatrical, with dread rising from strange characters and unsettling places. You get haunted, asylum, witchy, and cult paranoia energy, where each chapter escalates fast and lands a season climax, while The Sandman stays more patient and mythic, lingering on wonder and unease.

Goodbye, Lara

Tokyo MX • Jul 5, 2026

DramaFantasy

A mermaid princess once traded her voice and magical nature for a chance at human love, but the spell carried a terrible cost. Two centuries later, she awakens in a Japanese lake with one final opportunity to find love and secure her place in the human world.

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Why this pick

The Sandman and Goodbye, Lara both lean into fantasy romance with a heavy cost, where love and loss sit right beside danger. The animated world trades in quiet longing and a ticking deadline, and the emotional pressure comes from irreversible magic and fragile connection, while The Sandman keeps things larger-scale and more myth-horror than intimate.

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