The Umbrella Academy has never shied away from sex, violence and naughty words, but it looks like season 3 will up the ante.
The Umbrella Academy, Netflix’s adaptation of Gerard Way’s superhero comic, has been going strong for a couple of seasons now. In a crowded market for superhero shows, it’s managed to stand out by dealing with heavy content while still maintain a very lively, very whimsical sense of humor. To give you an idea, one of the characters is an old man trapped in the body of a teenager who had a decades-long relationship with a department store mannequin. And it just gets weirder from there.
The third season will pick up where the second left off: with our favorite dysfunctional superhero family returning to their own time period only to find that everything has changed: their father is alive, and their house is occupied by an entirely different group of superpowered people known as the Sparrow Academy. And it sounds like the series will be upping the ante in other ways, as Digital Spy reports that season 3 will be rated TV-MA after the first two seasons were rated TV-14.
That means that The Umbrella Academy is now officially “unsuitable for children under 17” as it may contain “crude indecent language, explicit sexual activity or graphic violence.” Which is all stuff the show had before, but I guess it’s going to take things to the next level.
The Umbrella Academy season 3 drops on Netflix on June 22. I was gonna watch it anyway, but now color me extra intrigued.
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