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The Umbrella Academy Stars and Producer on Screwing Up the Universe One More Time in Season 3 The Umbrella Academy Season 3 First Reviews: Elliot Page Shines In “The Most Emotional Season Yet ...
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- Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda
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77% Tomatometer 94 Reviews 85% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings On one day in 1989, 43 infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before.
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- February 15, 2019
- Elliot Page
- Another dysfunctional family portrait.
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- The Umbrella Academy: Season 3 Review
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By Alex Stedman
Updated: Jun 15, 2022 7:06 am
Posted: Jun 15, 2022 7:01 am
The Umbrella Academy Season 3 will debut on Netflix on June 22, 2022. Below is a spoiler-free review.
In some ways, the most unexpected thing The Umbrella Academy could’ve done was pull back on some of its trademark wackiness to tell a more intimate story of a family in crisis – as the world ends (again) in the background. Season 3 requires a tad bit of patience to see its vision through, but if you hang in there through a few slower initial episodes you’ll be rewarded with a moving portrait of a complicated and flawed family, bolstered by excellent performances and a good amount of Umbrella Academy-flavored fun.
This season opens in a very different place than Season 2 did (which isn’t a huge surprise, given that The Umbrella Academy also soft-reset itself after the first season); where the previous installment saw the Hargreeves separated, this one starts with them all together and confronting The Sparrow Academy, essentially the alternate-universe version of themselves that they accidentally created by messing with the timeline. Season 2 had fun bouncing across each sibling’s various storylines, but bringing them all together again allows for a more focused style of storytelling. Don’t get me wrong: I’m thoroughly enjoying Stranger Things Season 4’s ambitious, branching-narrative style, but it’s also refreshing to see a streaming series dare to go smaller and more disciplined (all the episodes are between 40 and 50 minutes), and for The Umbrella Academy, it’s a surprising change that works.
Still, it takes a little while for things to get cracking and lean into what this particular superhero series does best: delving into the nuanced relationships between the siblings. While the first episode is a ton of fun, playing with the dynamic between the Umbrellas and Sparrows in riotous fashion, the next couple slow down quite a bit as the characters try to figure out their current apocalypse and struggle with some growing pains of bringing the band back together. But give it time – or, more specifically, give it three episodes. Episode 4 is when we start cooking with gas, firing up some crazy twists and unfolding its vision for our traumatized and exhausted Hargreeves.
These familial relationships, and the character development for each individual Hargreeves, is where The Umbrella Academy has always shined, and it continues to do so more than ever in Season 3. No single member of the family is given the shaft, story-wise, and there’s not a weak link in the bunch in terms of performances. In particular, Luther, who in previous seasons has struck me as more annoying than endearing, is given something of a redemptive arc, and Tom Hopper’s performance makes the character a heck of a lot more likable in this batch of episodes.
The Umbrella Academy Season 3 may take a few episodes to find its footing, but give it time and it eventually ends up doing what it does best: building on the character development of the Hargreeves siblings and their relationships between one another. There’s not a weak performance in the bunch, but Tom Hopper gets a little something more to work ...
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The Umbrella Academy tells a more intimate and focused story in Season 3, bolstered by the strength of its complicated characters and excellent cast.
Alex Stedman
The Umbrella Academy is such an incredible show that really should be entertaining to all types of different people! I would absolutely recommend it to any superhero fan, action fan, sci-fi fan or drama fan because it has something for fans of all those genres!
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