It was touch and go for a second there, but Netflix has officially confirmed that The Umbrella Academy will be back for a third season of dysfunctional superhero action.
Although we’ve basically assumed this was happening for a while, Netflix has now confirmed that it’s renewed its dysfunctional superhero series The Umbrella Academy for a third season.
Oh my god! We're back! Again! It's official. Production for S3 of The Umbrella Academy begins in February pic.twitter.com/tZxyezzCOc
— Umbrella Academy (@UmbrellaAcad) November 10, 2020
The second season of the show, which saw the superpowered Hargreeves siblings transported back in time and trying to prevent a(nother) apocalypse in the days leading up to the Kennedy assassination, was tremendously successful, so again, renewal was all but a foregone conclusion. But with COVID slowing down or stopping productions the world over, we had just a tiny bit of doubt. Now we can put our minds at ease.
The third season, like the first two, will have 10 episodes. All the cast members we’ve come to love are returning, including Hargreeves siblings Ellen Page (Vanya), Tom Hopper (Luther), David Castañeda (Diego), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Allison), Robert Sheehan (Klaus), Aidan Gallagher (Five) and Justin H. Min (Ben). Also back are Ritu Arya as Lila Pitts, a new morally fluid character who started up a relationship with Diego; and Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves, the siblings adoptive father. Showrunner Steve Blackman is also back.
The second season ended with the Hargreeves kids making it back to their own time, but clearly something went wrong. Their brother Ben is alive (and seems like a real dick this time around), and their old house is populated by an entirely different set of heroes, members of something called the Sparrow Academy.
It sounds wild, but that’s what fans of the show have come to expect by this point. There’s no release date yet for The Umbrella Academy season 3, but it goes into production this upcoming February.
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h/t Variety