Dead Boy Detectives comes to an end at Netflix, no season 2

It's a sad day for fans of Dead Boy Detectives, Netflix's YA offshoot of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Variety has reported that the series will not return for a second season. Though the news doesn't come as a huge surprise, given that there's been no word on the show since its April debut, it's still a disappointment to those who were hopeful the series would continue.

Dead Boy Detectives was a little bit of an oddity in itself since the series was originally going to air on Max and connect more to the DC universe (it's based on the DC comic book series of the same name) but then was later moved to Netflix, which made sense because The Sandman, another series set in the Gaiman universe, was already airing there and Dead Boy Detectives featured a couple of little crossovers between the two Netflix series.

Additional episodes of The Sandman are coming to Netflix soon, but Dead Boy Detectives has ended its run on the streaming service. In this day and age, it's always possible that the series could get saved by another platform or find life somewhere else. For now, though, fans should prepare for the worst.

Starring Jayden Revri and George Rexstrew as the main duo Charles Rowland and Edwin Payne, Dead Boy Detectives follows the ghostly pair working together to investigate crimes instead of heading off toward their respective afterlives, which causes Death and the Night Nurse (Ruth Connell reprising her role from Doom Patrol) to come looking for them. The series also starred Kassius Nelson, Briana Cuoco, Yuyu Kitamura, and Jenn Lyon.

The show's cancellation is a particularly bitter pill because the finale ended with a sizable cliffhanger, leaving the fate of fan-favorite character Niko (Kitamura) up in the air. Niko "dies" in the finale, but then a post-credits scene teases that she might still be alive somewhere. Now, I guess we'll never know.

One has to wonder if Netflix intends to cancel The Sandman after this upcoming season too, and if all of this might be linked to the sexual assault accusations against Gaiman, as reported by Rolling Stone.

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