‘The Umbrella Academy’ sets sights on July return after ‘Doom Patrol’ in June
Cast members recreate a scene from “The Umbrella Academy” season one to announce season two’s release date . Image: YouTube/Netflix via AFP Relaxnews
The seven leads from “The Umbrella Academy” have teamed up – at an appropriate distance – to deliver a recreation of season one’s dance scene and announce a July 31 date for season two.
Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Ellen Page and David Castañeda play out a sequence from that first season in which a mansion’s worth of estranged, isolated adoptive orphans connect through an ’80s pop classic and reveal something of their hidden, inner natures.
Then absent for plot reasons but now reintegrating into the ongoing story, Gallagher’s umbrella-twirling The Boy and Justin Min’s Ben offer a taste of things to come for the show’s second run-out.
Season 1 finished with a cataclysmic event, and Umbrella Academy’s adoptive siblings manage to skip back in time to try and put things right, so it’s not at all clear how season 2 would begin.
The announcement comes a week after HBO’s “Doom Patrol” set its own sophomore season return for June 25, and the two shows have something of a family connection themselves.
While both are based on respective comic book series, “The Umbrella Academy” co-creator (and My Chemical Romance singer) Gerard Way has acknowledged “Doom Patrol” as a direct inspiration.
That’s no bad thing, though, and “Doom Patrol” owner DC Comics was evidently impressed: Way was invited to write 2016’s sixth volume of “Doom Patrol” and its continuation “Weight of the Worlds”, both of which were published through Way’s DC imprint, Young Animal. IB
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