The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 1.
The Umbrella Academy helped bring a new kind of superhero story to Netflix, and now the streaming service has greenlit a second season. No big surprise there!
Not only did The Umbrella Academy generate plenty of online chatter for Netflix, but it’s pretty clear that showrunner Steve Blackman anticipated The Umbrella Academy season 2 all along. The show’s first season ends on about as cliffhanger-y a cliffhanger as possible with the central Umbrella Academy kids heading off into the past to parts and times unknown.
The Umbrella Academy season 2 cast
We’re not the only ones who want to know what happens next. The returning cast is dying to find out what’s next for the Hargreeves family, too:
“For me, it’s gonna be so interesting to explore Vanya,” Ellen Page said of her new White Violin persona. “It’s like Vanya 2.0 – less repressed and what does that mean in the good ways and bad kinda thing.”
Klaus Hargreeves actor Robert Sheehan said he appreciates the “transformative” nature of Klaus and that we can expect more of it in The Umbrella Academy season 2.
“He’s constantly emerging into this new self. He’s a butterfly that refuses to leave the cocoon, or he keeps going back into it. I’d love to see Klaus re-formed as something else, different completely. Hopefully, if the murmurings are to be believed, that’s kind of where we’re headed. I think he’s in a constant state of change and that would bring much excitement for me.”
The Umbrella Academy season 2 release date
The Umbrella Academy season 2 does not have a release date yet, but filming is set to begin this summer in Toronto.
The Umbrella Academy season 2 plot
The Umbrella Academy season 1 adapted the majority of the comic’s first volume, “Apocalypse Suite,” with a little bit of the second volume, “Dallas” thrown in. The Umbrella Academy creator Gerard Way told our US chums that he anticipates more of “Dallas” in The Umbrella Academy season 2.
“When all said and done there’s eight graphic novels planned total,” Way said. “We’re two series ahead of the show and I think right now there’s only been a couple things used from Dallas’ so I think if there’s a potential season two you would see some things potentially from ‘Dallas.'”
