The Sandman
Chapter 14: Brief Lives
TV Flash files “Chapter 14: Brief Lives” as hour 14 of 21 in the TV Flash guide — The Sandman (2022–2025) on Netflix, season 2, episode 4, aired 2025-07-03, 45 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 14 of 21 in the The Sandman guide, hour 4 of 11 in season 2. It aired 2025-07-03 (45 min). The listed hour before it is “Chapter 13: More Devils Than Vast Hell Can Hold” (S02E03). Next is “Chapter 15: The Song of Orpheus” (S02E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Morpheus grudgingly helps Delirium search for their vanished sibling in the waking world — where a deadly force lurks in the shadows.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Chapter 14: Brief Lives sit in the The Sandman guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 14 of 21 — hour 4 of 11 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did The Sandman S02E04 air?
Chapter 14: Brief Lives aired 2025-07-03 and is listed at 45 minutes.
Do I need the comics first?
No, though protective fandom will compare. Comic-accurate weird instead of a superhero rinse; anthology-shaped seasons still play as one realm of bargains and bad dreams.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Dream of the Endless, finally, with comic-accurate weird instead of a superhero rinse. Tom Sturridge's quiet gravity and a mythology protective fandom had been guarding for decades. Watch for anthology-shaped seasons that still feel like one realm, and for fantasy television that prefers stories, bargains, and bad dreams to lore dumps.
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