When will The Sandman Season 2 Volume 2 premiere? Release details, explored

Netflix kick-started The Sandman Season 2, the American fantasy drama based on Neil Gaiman's comic book series, with Volume 1 on July 3, 2025. The first part of the second season (six episodes) dropped in its entirety on the platform.

The Sandman Season 2 Volume 2 will be released on Netflix on July 24, 2025, concluding the show. As showrunner Allan Heinberg discussed in many interviews, the show was always intended to be a two-season project.

The sophomore season will adapt many interesting stories from Geiman's comics, including The Song of Orpheus, The Tempest, Tales in the Sand, along with fan-favorite comics like Season of Mist and Brief Lives.

The cast for The Sandman Season 2 includes Tom Sturridge as Dream, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Ruairi O’Connor as Orpheus, Barry Sloane as Destruction, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death.

The Sandman Season 2 Volume 2: Release and streaming details

The second season of The Sandman has finally released its first batch of episodes, and fans are already anticipating the final arc of Dream's story, which will be concluded in Volume 2.

The Sandman Season 2 Volume 2 will be released on Netflix on July 24, 2025, at 12 am PT/ 3 am ET in the US. Fans would require an active Netflix subscription to catch the final part of the second season.

While Volume 2 will consist of a total of 5 episodes, the show will also release a special bonus episode, titled "Death: The High Cost of Living" on July 31, 2025, which will be centred around the character of Death.

The titles for The Sandman Season 2 Volume 2 episodes are as follows:

1) Time and Night

2) Fuel for the Fire

3) The Kindly Ones

4) Long Live the King

5) A Tale of Graceful Ends

What can you expect from The Sandman Season 2 Volume 2?

The Sandman Season 2 Volume 1 saw Dream's efforts to reunite with his estranged Endless sibling, Destruction. While Volume 1 saw Destiny gathering his Endless siblings, Dream, Death, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, Destruction remained absent from this reunion.

However, in Episode 6, Dream finally discovered that Destruction has been living in peace on a private island, right next door to Orpheus’ temple. Since Dream's last agonizing meeting with his son Orpheus, Destruction knew this was the only place his sibling would not follow him, as he said:

“Seems our brother chose to live in the one place he knew I would not dare to go.''

However, after Dream and Delirium reunite with their sibling, he reveals his reason for abandoning his realm and staying at Orpheus’ temple:

“Remember that I left. Remember how hard it was for me to leave. But that I did it out of love … For humankind. For this world and all others … Love is the only good reason to do anything.”

The closing moments of Volume 1 set an explosive arc for Volume 2, where Dream finally gave his son his parting gift of Death, which will have harrowing repercussions on his character in the final part.

Talking about Dream's decision to kill his son, actor Ruairi O'Connor (Orpheus) said with Netflix's Tufum:

“It’s this thing that Orpheus has been chasing after for 2,000 years — to not exist. It’s not great living as a disembodied head and, at this point, I think it’s about knowing the relief that he’s going to get.”

After committing this huge sin, Dream returns to his realm and privately weeps for his son, an act not typical of his character.

While Orpheus asked for the gift of Death from his father, the spilling of family blood will have grave consequences, and Dream will face the Furies (the Greek goddesses of vengeance) in The Sandman Season 2 Volume 2.

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Edited by Aashna