The Sandman Season 2 Uncertainty Highlights Netflix's Biggest Flaw
Netflix has been receiving pushback for its creative decisions from all sides, and every success seems to be a new minefield for the once-powerful streaming service. With The Sandman, a new extremely popular comic book adaptation hanging in the balance, Netflix's analytics have been called into question by fans and critics.
The Sandman was long considered unfilmable, but the recently released adaptation has been almost universally beloved by longtime fans and newcomers. Its first season received rave reviews and prompted immediate calls for more. Unfortunately, the source material's writer Neil Gaiman has raised the possibility of the series ending after just one season.
The Sandman: Predictions For A Second Season
Netflix's analytics are a tricky game. They're not always willing to talk numbers and the ones they put out tend to only tell part of the story. By the numbers that fans do have access to, The Sandman was watched for over 69 million hours in its first six days. The show doubled that impressive number and racked up 127 million hours of watch time in its first full week. It became the number one show on the service across English-speaking territories and remained in the top 10 for weeks. To an uninformed observer, this would sound like an outstanding success and would warrant the production of the second season. Unfortunately, it's not that simple and the more complex elements of the streaming service's analytic structure cast the series' future in doubt.
To hear Neil Gaiman tell it, Netflix isn't prepared to greenlight a second season for anything that doesn't see unbelievable unobtainable success standards. These standards don't just require tons of people to watch the show, it also measures when and how people
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