Netflix’s dysfunctional adopted superhero family is returning for a third season on the online streaming platform.
Based on Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s comic book series, The Umbrella Academy will land on 22nd June. However, before the new season arrives, let’s have a quick preview of season two:
Vanya and Doomsday
Ever since season 1, the Hargreeves siblings have been tasked with preventing Doomsday. Just like in season 1, Vanya caused doomsday unintentionally.
Vanya releases energy that dislodges fragments of the moon into the Earth and ends the world. To prevent this from happening, season 2 sees the siblings travel back in time thanks to Five’s (Aiden Gallagher) powers. But they end up decades back, in 1963, Dallas, around the time of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
This, again, leads to Doomsday. Diego uses the Commission’s — a secretive agency that keeps tabs on the established timeline of the world — Infinite Switchboard to see into the future, witnessing an FBI building explode just as JFK’s car goes by during his parade. This sets off a chain of events in which JFK evades assassination, but the US government believes the Russians are behind the explosion. They retaliate and a nuclear war ensues, aka another Doomsday.
It turns out that the explosion is caused by Vanya. Believed to be a Russian spy, Vanya is tortured by the FBI. This sets off her powers, and she verges on exploding but she is saved by her brother Ben.
Curious case of Reginald Hargreeves
Reginald Hargreeves, the Hargreeves’ loving old adoptive father never fails to keep a trump card up his sleeve. At a roundtable meeting with a group of conspiracy theorists known as Majestic 12, Sir Reginald (Colm Feore) peels off his face, revealing it’s a mask and really he’s an interdimensional being. He promptly kills the gentlemen.
The Commission vs Hargreeves siblings
The climax of season 2 sees The Handler, aka the head of the Commission and Five’s former boss send just about everyone at the Commission to war with the Hargreeves.
Handler dies
Yes in the last episode of season 2, Five manages to kill her before she kills off everyone. Later, Herb, who becomes the acting chairperson of the Commission, awards the siblings a briefcase to return home.
The Sparrow Academy
The siblings finally go home, back to the year 2019. However, Reginald tells the siblings, “This is the Sparrow Academy,” and after that, a group of young superheroes gathers in the gallery.
And this is how season 2 ends leaving the audience hooked on what will happen to The Umbrella Academy.
