The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Review

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In a world rife with comic book adaptations and superhero stories, The Umbrella Academy still manages to break the mold. Newcomers might have trouble keeping up with the metric tons of lore, family dynamics, and plot lines, but this season contains most of the payoff fans have been waiting for.

Season 3, like the first two seasons, was developed for Netflix by Steve Blackman and Jeremy Slater. Fans of the comic will recognize the loose adaptation of each series of Gerard Way's ongoing franchise as the inspiration for a season of the show. The first season covered The Apocalypse Suite, the second covered Dallas, and the third finally takes the Hargreeves family to Hotel Oblivion.

Elliot Page's Umbrella Academy Character Comes Out As Transgender In Season 3

The third season of The Umbrella Academy picks up right where season 2 left off. The Hargreeves are back in the modern-day, convinced of their success, only to find a new family of superheroes in their family home. Fans are quickly introduced to the Sparrow Academy, another group of seven superheroes that Reginald Hargreeves gathered after his brush with his first take on the idea in 1963. After a confrontation with their replacements, the original Hargreeves lie low at the elegant Hotel Obsidian. The family is prepared to go about the rest of their lives until a new apocalypse rears its ugly head. The duel between the Hargreeves families is set against the backdrop of a third end of the world, which the heroes will have to continue trying to stop.

The returning cast is stellar as always. Every member of the Umbrella Academy is in top form as they reprise their beloved role. Perhaps the most publicly notable aspect of the season was Elliot Page's public transition between