Every sci-fi and fantasy show you should watch in 2022
By WiC Staff
The Umbrella Academy season 3 — Netflix — 2022
Another Netflix release coming in 2022 is the third season of The Umbrella Academy. Superhero stories have become so much the rage this past decade that now there’s a rush to subvert them; The Boys, which we talked about earlier, is doing that. So is The Umbrella Academy, which is Netflix’s entry into the superhero arms race. The show has been a solid success for the streaming platform, racking up both views and critical acclaim, so it was no surprise when the streamer renewed it for a third season back in 2020.
The Umbrella Academy is a pretty fun show, serving up equal helpings of dark humor and superhero action. The series follows a dysfunctional family of seven superpowered individuals who were adopted and raised by an even more dysfunctional scientist/father figure who taught them to harness their gifts.
After the first season’s explosive finale, the show’s second took us on a time travel adventure to the 1960s. But when the team got back to their own time, they found things much changed, which is always a risk when time travel is involved. Season 3 will see the Hargreeves family trying to make their way in this alternate future, where they discover that their foster father never adopted them and started the “Sparrow Academy” with mostly different superpowered individuals instead.
Whatever this new future holds, with The Umbrella Academy you can bank on it being weird as well as highly entertaining. Season 3 is coming to Netflix sometime in 2022. — Daniel