Spoiler alert: This article contains major spoilers of “The Sandman” second and last episode of bonus of the season, “Death: The High Cost of Living”, now streaming on Netflix.
Netflix’s last chapter of “The Sandman” has no dream, only death.
Entitled “Death: The High Cost of Living”, the Bonus episode – which was launched on Friday, a week after the end of the last season of “The Sandman” – is based on a series of comics with a blow from the author Neil Gaiman who focuses on the death of Dream (Tom Sturridge) (Kirby Howell -Baptiste) and the time she spends once 100 years old. During this particular visit, she met a young man disappointed with the name of Sexton Furnaval (Colin Morgan) and tries to help her reconcile her recent suicidal feelings.
So why this story – the one who does not even include the titular character – was chosen as the last piece that fans will get from this version of “The Sandman”, after the second and last season of 11 episodes?
“When we discovered together that season 2 would be our last season, Netflix said very generously:” Why don’t you do an additional episode? Like, take the 11 episodes you need to tell the story, then we will give you one more. “When you discover what these things cost is a great gift, indeed,” said the showrunner “The Sandman” Allan Heinberg Variety.
Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death and Colin Morgan as a Furnival Sexton in “The Sandman”.
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The choice to put an end to the series was made more than two years ago by the gaman co-creators, Heinberg and David S. Goyer (before the accusations of sexual misconduct against Gaiman), who decided that the final of the series would cover thanks to the death of Dream in “The Wake” Comics. But then the question remained, what are you doing with the bonus episode?
“So we talked about” Ramadan “. We talked about, is there a version of an hour of “ Overture ”? It is an elevator that we can manage. And that looked like a series of episode 6 of season 1, where Dream and Death just have a walk in London and we all love this episode a lot. “”
Heinberg and Gaiman are credited as co-writers in the episode, a choice that Heinberg dit was made when Gaiman “very generously” gave him the original script to draw inspiration from the episode.
“I tried to take everything I could from this scenario,” said Heinberg. “In particular, a few lines have been a few lines that the taxi driver, Lenny,” said Death and Sexton who were directly from this film. And it was just like, Neil and David Goyer and I had shared the credit for the first episode, and it was like a great way to go out to share the credit with Neil for the last episode. And I undertook to have gave me the version. Film, Death was a teenager, Sexton was a teenager.
While the episode presents many references to Superman – Sexton’s favorite superhero and a classic American signal of heroic intensions – Heinberg said that he did not know when he wrote it in 2023 that the payment was going to fall so shortly after the theatrical version of James Gunn “Superman” restart, and instead, he was just a good time of “Sandman”. (Heinberg also has a continuous development agreement with Studio Warner Bros.)
“I didn’t do it! I don’t even know if James Gunn looks at the show, but I hope no. No, it’s that I tried to work in as many DC references as possible,” said Heinberg. “I don’t know if you remember, but in season 1, Rose’s little brother, Jed, is obsessed with DC Comic he tries to be a superhero.
“The Sandman” by Gaiman is a property of DC comics itself, and more than one opportunity brought members of justice League for scenarios – including Batman assistant to Dream / Morpheus funeral. This does not happen in the final of the series of the adaptation of the Netflix series of Heinberg, but with his love for DC references, it was something considered
“We talked about:” Does Robert Pattinson want to come to the funeral? ” In short, we discussed it, but only briefly, “said Heinberg, laughing.
Overall, Heinberg describes the bonus episode as “a good night kiss to the public before the show sets”. “It was like, if you cry the loss of your show, it’s exactly the right way to say goodbye and remember that even in the face of death, there is so much joy and so much love and so much to appreciate about the moment we pass here,” he said.
