In Umbrella Academy season 3, family is the ultimate test

polygon.com:

In the third season of The Umbrella Academy, the Hargreeves siblings must team up to save the world from certain doom. Sound familiar? It should, because that is also the summary of seasons 1 and 2 of The Umbrella Academy.

But that’s not necessarily a bug. Sometimes, resetting plots and settings ad infinitum can be frustrating — and certainly there are moments in this season of The Umbrella Academythat feel like something that’s happened before. At the same time, showrunner Steve Blackman introduces a lot of new plots, new characters, and new settings to complicate it all, some directly from the comics, some loosely inspired by them, and some just for fun. It is a lot to take in, both jarringly different and startlingly the same. But in the end it all comes back to the Hargreeves siblings and the unhappy cycle of their own making. How much you enjoy this season depends on how much you enjoy stories about people suffering because they keep making the wrong decisions over and over again, even in the face of potential annihilation.

[Ed. note: This review contains some mild setup spoilers for the third season of The Umbrella Academy.]

This season kicks off with the Hargreeves siblings finally back in 2019 — except, due to their shenanigans in 1963, it’s a different version of 2019 than they know. The biggest difference is that Reginald Hargreeves did not adopt them as children. Instead, he picked seven different superpowered children born on October 1, 1989. They’re now an elite team of crime fighters known as the Sparrow Academy.

At first, most of the Umbrella Academy seems resigned to accept their new fate in this strange timeline, but they soon realize that their presence in this alternate reality seems to have