Sandman Speculations

Since we now know for certain there will be a second Sandman tv season, I can't help but speculate how that might work. Now both the tv and the audio adaption chose to use essentially two of the trade collections for one season - i.e. Preludes and Nocturnes plus The Doll's House for s1, with two of the Fables and Reflections stories for the bonus episode. So I think it's a safe bet s2 will follow the audio model and use two trade volumes for its second season, specifically Seasons of Mist and A Game of You, possibly with some more Fables and Reflections tales (they need to do at least Midsummer Night's Dream and Thermidor for greater continuity, though then again they might want to keep Thermidor for a Brief Lives centric third season together with Song of Orpheus in order to have all the Orpheus stories together).

Now, A Game of You has minimal Morpheus content - he basically just shows up in the finale with a tiny tiny cameo before that. I don't think this would be done on tv. So rather than devote the first half of the season to one storyarc and the second to the next, I suspect the tv version will run both storyarcs simultanously, which means we'll switch between a Seasons of Mist derived Morpheus storyline and the mostly Morpheus free Game of You events within the same episodes, mostly, and both will conclude in the finale.

( Spoilers for the comics ensue; tv only people, know you'll get them here. )