As befitting a show whose entire plot rests on all that time-wimey material (thanks, Number Five!), the next season of The Umbrella Academy will be a season piece. Netflix has released pictures plus a synopsis, and it seems like our dysfunctional family of ex-child-superheroes has been taking a vacation back.
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Spoiler
When we saw the Hargreeveses, they’d failed to stop the apocalypse of Vanya/The White Violin. Left without any option, they chose to use the abilities to return into an unidentified time of Number Five, ending the season on a cliff-hanger that was ginormous. It wasn’t just as simple as reverting to their (dreadful ) childhoods and starting over. Instead, they have been delivered by the time-travel back to more than two decades ahead of their birth that was auspicious. And not only that, but they’re all stuck in different years…
Here’s the official synopsis, from Netflix:
Five warned his family (so, so many times) that with his abilities to escape out of Vanya’s 2019 apocalypse was insecure. He was right – the time jump scatters the siblings punctually in and around over three years. He was starting in 1960. A few, having been trapped in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they.
Five is the final to land, smack dab amid doomsday, which! – ends up is due to the group’s disruption of the deadline (déjà vu, anyone?). The Umbrella Academy must discover a way to reunite, figure out what triggered doomsday, set a stop to it now, and return to the current timeline to prevent that apocalypse—all while being hunted by a trio of ruthless Swedish assassins. But seriously, no pressure or something.
