Netflix has announced that the highly-anticipated second season of The Umbrella Academy will premiere on July 31.
The first season of the Dark Horse Comics adaptation ended on quite the cliffhanger, with Spaceboy, The Kraken, The Rumor, The Seance and The Boy using their combined abilities to stop their sister The White Violin from bringing about the end of the world by travelling back in time. Their plan appeared to succeed, but we were left wondering what the long-term ramifications would be for our ragtag bunch of heroes, who reverted to teenagers in the final shot.
To accompany the announcement, Netflix released a music video featuring the main cast members (Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin Min) mirroring the first season's dance number by cutting a rug to Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" while in quarantine.
On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. But not everything went according to plan. In their teenage years, the family fractured and the team disbanded. Now, the six surviving thirty-something members reunite upon the news of Hargreeve’s passing. Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Vanya and Number Five work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father’s death. But the estranged family once again begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.
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