The final-ever episode of The Sandman arrives this week
WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The Sandman season 2
Netflix’s epic fantasy series The Sandman will be wrapping up with a bonus episode after the streaming platform confirmed the show would be ending.
The instalment comes after the main story was rounded off in the second and final season of the fantasy epic.
The Sandman, which featured a star-studded cast, ended with a big twist that saw his infant son Orpheus transformed into a fully grown adult (played by Jacob Anderson).
Orpheus would now take on his father Morpheus’ (Tom Sturridge) role as Dream of the Endless.
The bonus episode comes after The Sandman was dropped in two blocks by Netflix with episodes one to six landing on July 3, and the latter seven to 11 arriving on July 24.
Here’s a look at the bonus episode and when you can start streaming it.
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What is The Sandman season 2, episode 12 release time?
The Sandman season two, episode 12 will be coming to Netflix on Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 8am.
This is midnight PST on the Western Seaboard of North America and 3am on the Eastern Seaboard on the day of release.
Netflix generally releases most of its shows at midnight PT as the company’s headquarters are in California, which falls into this timezone.
Titled Chapter 12: Death: The High Cost of Living, the bonus episode will focus on Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), reported Variety.
The bonus episode came as something of a surprise earlier this year and was announced by Netflix after the streamer confirmed the episode titles for season two.
Season one also featured a surprise bonus episode called A Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope.
The episode followed a Siamese cat dreaming about a new world and also an author suffering from writer’s block, who met Morpheus.
A Dream of a Thousand Cats/Calliope was adapted from Dream Country from issues 17 to 20 of The Sandman comic.
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Will there be The Sandman season 3?
No, Netflix has confirmed season two will be the last outing of The Sandman.
Showrunner Allan Heinberg always planned for the second series to be the last, prior to the show being filmed in summer 2023. However, his decision was only announced in January this year.
Nonetheless, with the big season two twist, the door could be left open for a fresh story.
Heinberg admitted if he was asked to do season three, he would do it “instantly”.
He went on to tell Variety: “I would write this show for as long as they would let me. This show feels like all TV shows — like you can do anything.
“You can write about anything in the context of The Sandman in funny ways and romantic ways and scary ways.”
He said he was “very sad” to see the show go and described it as a “creative dream” for him.
The writer described The Sandman’s scope for storytelling as huge and where “all manner of stories” could be told from “imaginary realms and time periods”.
He added: “And this has been an education for me, this show, in every way — as all shows are, but more so this time. And I can’t believe Netflix let us make it.”
The Sandman season 2 is streaming on Netflix now