Netflix has just dropped two surprise episodes of The Sandman. The two-part bonus episode will feature one animated episode with guest voices including Sandra Oh, James McAvoy, and David Tennant, as well as a live-action episode.
The first episode is called A Dream of A Thousand Cats and it will be an animated special and adapts the storyline from the comics of the same name. Alongside Oh, Tennant, and McAvoy (who funny enough voiced Dream in an audiobook adaptation of The Sandman) the voice cast includes Rosie Day, David Gyasi, Joe Lycett, Michael Sheen, Nonso Anozie, Diane Morgan, Tom Wu, and Neil Gaiman himself.
The second episode, Calliope, will be a live-action episode and will star Melissanthi Mahut (the voice of Kassandra in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey) as the eponymous Muse. In the comics, Calliope was captured by a 20th-century writer in order to give him constant inspiration.
In addition to Mahut, the cast includes Arthur Darvill, Nina Wadia, Souad Faress, Dinita Gohil, Kevin Harvey, Amita Suman, and Derek Jacobi.
The Sandman premiered on August 5 on Netflix with a 10-episode first season. According to Netflix, the live-action adaptation of Neil Gaiman's critically-acclaimed comic book series has been the number one TV show on Netflix for two weeks in a row with close to two hundred million hours viewed.
Though once considered unadaptable, Neil Gaiman became personally involved in the Netflix series and it looks to have succeeded. IGN's The Sandman review awarded the show a 9 calling it "everything longtime fans could have dreamed of in an adaptation."
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.
Source: IGN.com The Sandman: Two Surprise Episodes Released on Netflix