Despite Neil Gaiman’s reduced role and controversy, The Sandman’s final season can’t escape its quiet Netflix farewell.

This article contains minor spoilers from “The Sandman” second and final season premiere, “Season of Mists,” now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” graphic novels opens its final season with a storyline near and dear to many fans: “Season of Mists.

Going into season 2, Morpheus’s words feel especially apt due to the large shadow cast over the show by its co-creator, Neil Gaiman . The 64-year-old fantasy author, who wrote the comics The Sandman is based on, stands accused of sexual misconduct by eight women .