Robert Sheehan
The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Swings into the ’60s: Review
The Pitch: When we last saw the super-powered, super-dysfunctional Hargreeves siblings, they had front-row seats to the end of the world — mostly because they caused it. In a last-ditch attempt to stave off the apocalypse, time-traveling Number Five (Aiden Gallagher) zaps the Umbrella Academy back to the past to stop it, only to find out he’s flung his brothers and sisters scattershot throughout different years in the early 1960s in Dallas, Texas. Each of them thinking they’re alone, they try to settle into new lives: Hulking Luther (Tom Hopper) turns to drink, despair, and bare-knuckle boxing; mind-control maven Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) gets married and embeds herself in the budding Civil Rights Movement; knife-throwing bruiser Diego (David Castañeda) is institutionalized; pansex...
Gerard Way’s The Umbrella Academy Sets Season 2 Premiere Date on Netflix
The dysfunctional superheroes of The Umbrella Academy will suit up once again this summer: Season 2 of the hit TV series is set to premiere on Netflix on July 31st. The announcement was made Monday via a quarantine-style video featuring the show’s core cast dancing to Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now”, a callback to a particularly fun and poignant Season 1 scene. Season 2 will reportedly consist of 10 new one-hour episodes. Much of the first season’s cast is expected to come back, including Ellen Page, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, David Castañeda, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Colm Feore, Adam Godley, Robert Sheehan, and Aidan Gallagher. The Umbrella Academy will also welcome three new faces in Marin Ireland (Homeland), Yusuf Gatewood (The Originals), and Ritu Arya (Humans). The Umb...
