Perhaps the creativity of The Umbrella Academy is that its characters do not represent the perfect superheroes, such as Superman or Captain America, to provide just two notable examples. No, The Umbrella Academy’s personalities are amounts of trauma and unsolved conflicts.
The showrunner for the series is Steve Blackman (Fargo, Altered Carbon). He’s also an executive producer with Jeff F. King (Hand of God), Keith Goldberg, and Mike Richardson.
A vital fact is that it takes place in an alternate world. Here the American president John F. Kennedy wasn’t murdered in Dallas in 1963. In the first season, this group’s origin story was told.
In 1989, about precisely the same day, 43 children were born whose moms, unrelated to one another, had no symptoms of being pregnant before the afternoon before delivery. Billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves adopted about seven of these babies. They created The Umbrella Academy to prepare these kids when they had been to save the world.
What Hargreeves did not understand is that when these kids reached their teens, fights broke out, and the group will split up. That’s when this Umbrella Academy’s first chapter started. The second when the band’s six members meet on the occasion of their parent’s death. And they find that they need to work together to protect against the end of the planet.
The group consists of:
Netflix confirmed that it would maintain the same main cast of the first season, consisting of: