It would have been easy for season 2 of The Umbrella Academy to slip into telling the same tale twice, but instead, the series opts to explore how the events of the first season changed the characters and their relationships to each other and the world around them. However, as the episode’s title suggests, Right Back Where We Started does reset the story a bit for season 2, forcing the team to find each other all over again - both literally and metaphorically - over the course of a 10-episode arc that has them trying to avert yet another apocalyptic event. THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY (L to R) ROBERT SHEEHAN as KLAUS HARGREEVES, EMMY RAVER-LAMPMAN as ALLISON HARGREEVES and ELLEN PAGE as VANYA HARGREEVES in episode 205 of THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Cr. Given how much narrative material was introduced across season 1’s 10 episodes, and how much time has elapsed since the series premiered on Netflix, it’s a credit to the show’s creative team that the first chapter of season 2 avoids feeling overstuffed.
The first episode of the new season is one of the series’ best, offering a recap of the characters, concepts, and emotional arcs of season 1 while simultaneously teasing the exciting potential of the team, and what stands in the way of them realizing that potential. It required a world-ending event to make the former members of the child superhero team overcome their personal grudges in the first season of The Umbrella Academy, and season 2’s premiere episode - penned by showrunner Steve Blackman - offers a spectacular reminder of just how powerful the remaining members of the family are. Not only does season 2 deftly juggle multiple timelines and narrative threads, it adds even more depth to its colorful cast of characters who manage to become even more fascinating the more we find out about them.
In a season bookended by two of its most exciting episodes, the second story arc of The Umbrella Academy measures up to the high mark set by season 1. THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY AIDAN GALLAGHER as NUMBER FIVE in episode 201 of THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Cr. Now stranded in Texas during the early 1960s, the Hargreeves siblings must find a way to reunite and return home while simultaneously protecting the past and saving the future. Season 2 finds the dysfunctional family of superheroes transported back in time after fleeing the apocalyptic events of the first season.
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