This review contains mild spoilers for “The Sandman,” Season 2. A long, dark shadow has fallen over “The Sandman.” Three years after premiering on Netflix, this slavishly faithful comic-book adaptation has returned,

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.

For fans it is a bittersweet return for The Sandman, with the series cancelled following sexual assault accusations levelled at Gaiman.