Everybody’s favorite dysfunctional adopted superhero family returns for a third season on Netflix on Wednesday. The Umbrella Academy, based on Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s …
Everybody’s favorite dysfunctional adopted superhero family returns for a third season on Netflix on Wednesday. The Umbrella Academy, based on Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s comic book series, is the ultimate polished package of time travel shenanigans, snide father figures and multiple end-of-the-world scenarios. Before you catch the newest season, there are some details you should probably go back over from season 2. The season ended on a stunning cliffhanger, plus there’s hope for a certain couple to reunite. Ever since season 1, the Hargreeves siblings have been tasked with preventing Doomsday, aka the apocalypse. Just like in season 1, Vanya (Elliot Page) is at the center of this world-destroying cataclysm. In the season 1 finale, 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 (David Castañeda) 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 — you guessed it — 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.
