The unfortunate side of that, however, is just how long it keeps the seven of them apart. Five (Aidan Gallagher), who is no stranger to time-traveling insanity, is once again forced to be the one responsible for informing his brothers and sisters of the oncoming apocalypse.Įach Hargreeves sibling's new lot in life feels earned and logical, considering the trajectories of their individual arcs back in Season 1. Vanya (Ellen Page) is stricken with amnesia and has settled in as a nanny in a farmhouse. Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) has become a civil rights activist. Klaus (Robert Sheehan), and by extension his ghost brother Ben (Justin H.), have started a cult. Diego (David Castañeda) has, regrettably, found himself locked up in a mental institution. Luther (Tom Hopper) has found work for himself as an underground boxer where he mostly throws fights and gets himself punched in the face. Their new temporal circumstances have forced the Hargreeves siblings to adapt. It wouldn't be totally accurate to say that Umbrella Academy is ever "grounded"-one of the lesser antagonists this season is a sentient goldfish who smokes cigarettes by sucking up smoke-filled air bubbles in his tank-but the characters themselves feel authentic and flawed (maybe even a little too flawed at times-but we'll get to that in a second). The situation may be a familiar one, but the Hargreeves siblings are no longer the people they were back when they tried to save the world the first time. On the surface, it may seem like an easy way to repeat everything about Season 1 with a period piece setting-but thankfully, Umbrella Academy deftly maneuvers around falling into any sort of routine by actually allowing its characters to grow and change. Now Playing: Netflix's The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Review: Weird And Wonderful Specifically, their meddling set off a chain of events that led to a new, completely different apocalypse that they now have to try and avoid.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's This may have mitigated the problem of the world ending back in the modern era-or at least put that problem on hold for the time being-but naturally, hopping back to the past just caused more issues than it solved. In a slap-dash attempt to avoid the apocalypse, the dysfunctional Hargreeves family-seven adopted super-powered siblings-wound up time traveling back to the 1960s. The set up for Season 2 will sound familiar. Now, they're all returning for a new adventure-or, well, a sort-of new adventure. It was exciting and weird and populated with characters that felt just familiar enough to love at first sight. Netflix's surreal family drama slash sci-fi superhero action thriller planted its flag in the ground last year with a charming and fresh 10-episode debut that took the comic book source material by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba and made it into something totally new. Chances are, if you're watching Umbrella Academy Season 2, then you've finished Season 1 and you already know what you're in for.
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