And amid all the action, dark jokes and death there’s something quite sweet about that. The Umbrella Academy’s lesson is clear – all the super strength, mind control and necromancy in the world can’t mess you up more than your family. Named as one of Netflix’s most beloved series ever (apparently 43 million viewers streamed at least part of season 2, making it the sixth most popular show of 2020) and with season 3 arriving soon, on-demand shows don’t get much bigger than this peculiar offering. Forced back together by the death of their cruel “father”, the Hargreeves siblings – played by Elliot Page, Robert Sheehan, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H Min – stumble through a quest to save the world in the present day, before being thrown back through time and forced to do the same thing again in 1960s Dallas during the (superior) second season. With a third season landing on 22nd June 2022, make sure you catch up on the first two instalments. The cast of Umbrella Academy season 3 Netflixīased on the graphic novel by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, The Umbrella Academy follows an adopted family of super-powered misfits, whose exploits as child heroes have left them wounded, traumatised, dead or just disaffected despite their incredible abilities.
