The Umbrella Academy checks into Hotel Oblivion for season 3…next year

Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy has quickly gained a passionate following, although we didn’t get much information on the show’s upcoming third season at the streamer’s recent Tudum event. But we got some today, with Netflix revealing that season 3 will be along sometime next year:

What’s more, it revealed the theme of the third season: the little bell is a reference to the Hotel Oblivion, which is both the name of the third cycle of Umbrella Academy comics by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba as well as…well, an actual hotel.

What is the Hotel Oblivion on The Umbrella Academy?

In the comics, the Hotel Oblivion is a prison designed by Reginald Hargreeves to house some of the many supervillains the Umbrella Academy have fought over the years. After all, how is a normal prison going to contain people with superpowers?

But the Hotel Oblivion isn’t the only gimmick season 3 has going for it. If you’ll recall, our dysfunctional family of superheroes finished out season 2 by stopping at apocalypse in the 1960s (pretty normal for this lot) before getting back to their own time only to find it much changed. Their father Reginald Hargreeves is alive, and he has a whole new group of superheroes fighting for him: the Sparrow Academy, led by none other than Ben (Justin M. Min), a member of the Umbrella Academy who died years ago and appeared on the first two seasons as a Ghost.

In fact, Ben himself showed up in a different video today to wish himself and his Sparrow Academy siblings a happy birthday:

So not only do the members of the Umbrella Academy have to deal with a new group of doppelgängers living in their house, but they’re also going to get thrown into the Hotel Oblivion at some point. Or maybe they throw the members of the Sparrow Academy in there, or something else entirely. Who knows?

All of this indicates that Netflix is ready to hype up marketing for the new season of the show, which is becoming one of their standby hits. I’m all for it.

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h/t TV Line