the umbrella academy

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: Hargreeves V. Hargreeves In The Season Three Trailer

“Too Many Siblings. Not enough timeline.” is pretty fitting at this stage for hit Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy. They’ve ended the world twice while trying to save it and they’ve jumped through hell loops of time doing it and now, they’re at the next biggest impasse which is to face an alternative version of the school they once called home. After putting a stop to 1963’s doomsday, the Umbrella Academy return home to the present, convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed this godforsaken timeline once and for all. But after a brief moment of celebration, they realize things aren’t exactly (okay, not at all) how they left them. Enter the Sparrow Academy. Smart, stylish, and about as warm as a sea of icebergs, the Sparrows immediately clash with the Umbrellas in a violent face-off that turns out to be the least of everyone’s concerns. Navigating challenges, losses, […]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Gets A Third Season Shooting In February

Lee B. Golden III

Both the trades and Netflix confirmed on Tuesday, a third season for hit series, The Umbrella Academy, based on Based on the acclaimed Dark Horse Comics publication by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá. Season one aired last February with a second arriving this past July as it focused on seven disparate members of a specially-gifted “family” – all born to seperate parents on the same day and time around the world. The interwoven drama culminates around the family’s oldest, Number Five, as he goes toe-to-toe with The Commission in order to save the world from an apocalyptic fate while struggling to keep his embattled family together in the wake of their eccentric billionaire adopted father’s death. The show’s regulars include features Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Kate Walsh and Colm Feore, with Cameron Britton and Adam Godley, and season two […]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Season Two Trailer Blasts The Hargreeves’ To The Past!

Lee B. Golden III

Given the explosive and catastrophic season one finale of The Umbrella Academy, it’s a relief that this series got a second season to tell the story fans of the show have been pining for. Netflix is streaming all season two episodes beginning July 31, and so with the official trailer now up and running, check out the synopsis below as well. Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya’s 2019 apocalypse was risky. Well, he was right – the time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas. Over a three year period. Starting in 1960. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they’re the only ones who survived. Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which – spoiler alert! – turns […]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: Netflix Forecasts More Superhero Thrills And Apocalyptic Drama For A Second Season

Lee B. Golden III

The announcements are in and The Umbrella Academy is coming back for another season which goes before cameras in Toronto this summer. Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castaneda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin Min are expected to recur for another ten episodes. The Umbrella Academy premiered its live-action first season adaptation from My Chemical Romance lead singer, series creator Gerard Way back in February. Its story is preceded by an event thirty years ago centered on 43 miraculously-born infants – seven of whom are adopted by a billionaire industrialist whose runs an academy specially devoted to schooling and training them to one day save the world. Thirty years later, the fractured family of whom there are now six surviving members are reunited upon learning of the death of their adopted father. With two time-jumping assassins hunting down one of their own as armageddon nears, it’s up to […]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Forbodes With An Apocalyptic Forecast In The Official Series Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Netflix debut its first official trailer on Thursday for the upcoming season one premiere of The Umbrella Academy. February 15 is the date with ten episodes lying in await to endulge your forthcoming month of happy streaming. Indeed this one looks like a lot of fun to take in along with Kingdom after wrapping up season two of The Punisher. Peep the trailer, as well as the poster just beneath with deets in full: On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. But not everything went according to plan. In their teenage years, the family fractured and the team disbanded. Now, the six surviving thirty-something members reunite upon the news of […]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY: Netflix Announces 10-Episode Live-Action First Season For Next Year

Lee B. Golden III

Netflix hit big this week with the release of animated series, Castlevania, now on deck for a second season with more episodes. As it stands, they’ve now advanced a new project in the form of a new ten-episode live-action serial adaptation next year. For this, we turn to The Umbrella Academy, inspired by the popular Eisner award-winning comics and graphic novels from Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) and illustrator Gabriel Bá. Per the press announcement on Tuesday, Universal Cable Productions is producing the series for a 2018 premiere date forthcoming. The Umbrella Academy is a live action series that follows the estranged members of a dysfunctional family of superheroes (The Umbrella Academy) — The Monocle, Spaceboy, The Kraken, The Rumor, The Séance, Number Five, The Horror, and The White Violin — as they work together to solve their father’s mysterious death while coming apart at the seams due to their […]