Spoiler warning: the following article contains details from throughout the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy.
- Netflix has officially renewed The Umbrella Academy for a third season.
- Season 3 will premiere on June 22
The end of the first season of The Umbrella Academy, quite literally, went out with a bang, and the show’s second season picked up from that exact moment. From there, we saw a whole lot of time travel, a lot of action, a lot of laughs, a villain who was a fish in a tank with a human body, and some really cool and stylistic scenes with even better acting to go along with it. In short? Umbrella Academy Season 2 was a damn good time. So now we ask the obvious question—when’s season 3?
As the show’s Season 2 cliffhanger left things, our heroes are in some sort of alternate dimension, where The Umbrella Academy is instead replaced by something called The Sparrow Academy. We were already guessing that was where Season 3 would directly pick-up, and with Netflix announcing the casting of the Umbrella Academy’s Sparrow Academy counterparts, that feels like a safe guess.
There have also been some tea leaves telling us that Netflix and everyone behind the show have big plans in mind. Back in 2019, Gerard Way—who not only is the frontman of My Chemical Romance, but also the primary writer of The Umbrella Academy comics—told Collider that he gave showrunner Steve Blackman an 18-page document outlining his entire plan for The Umbrella Academy comics, which he plans to eventually total 8 volumes (three have been released so far, the most recent having come out last fall).
Additionally, actor David Castañeda, who plays Diego, told Men’s Health that he knew Blackman is already working on a third season, but was keeping his ideas mostly private. “There’s been some notes, some ideas thrown back and forth if we get the opportunity to go forward,” he said. “But Steve kind of keeps all that stuff really close to his chest until we get a hard confirmation.”
Here’s what more we know about the forthcoming third Umbrella Academy season.
Elliot Page will now play Viktor Hargreeves.
Since production wrapped on Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy, Page came out as transgender, now going by the name Elliot Page and using he/they pronouns. Appearing on the cover of Time magazine, Page detailed how much he related to Vanya in the first two seasons of the show. “I related to how much Vanya was closed off,” he said.
Blackman said in the Time piece that he’s seen a change in Page’s demeanor since returning for work on Season 3.
“It seems like there’s a tremendous weight off his shoulders, a feeling of comfort,” he said. “There’s a lightness, a lot more smiling.”
During production of Season 3, Elliot also revealed Vanya will transition alongside him, and take on the name Viktor.
Who will be in the Umbrella Academy Season 3 cast?
It’s been confirmed that most of the key players from Season 1 and 2 will return for Season 3. That means Hopper as Luther, Page as Vanya/Viktor, Castañeda as Diego, Raver-Lampman as Allison, Robert Sheehan as Klaus, Aidan Gallagher as Number Five, and Colm Feore as Reginald. Additionally, Adam Godley (as the voice of Pogo) and Ritu Arya (who played Season 2’s breakout character, Lila) will also be returning.
It seemed at few moments in the second season like it might be the end of the line for Justin H. Min, who plays the deceased Ben. A major moment in the second season was when Ben went into the light to save an overwhelmed Vanya, finally sacrificing himself out of Klaus’ visions. But that changed in a big way when the timelines changed—when the rest of the gang returned to the “present,” Ben was still alive—and part of something called The Sparrow Academy. And that made Min essential for a potential season 3.
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And Netflix has confirmed Min’s return as Ben for Season 3 as well, albeit a very different Ben—rooted in The Sparrow Academy—and he’s #2 in that hierarchy. Netflix describes this Ben as a “Machiavellian tactician,” and he seems destined to be a Season 3 antagonist.
Netflix also announced the rest of the Sparrow Academy members: #1 will be Marcus, the group’s leader who “oozes confidence and leadership,” played by Justin Cornwell from I Am The Night. #3, Fei, is a perceived misanthrope who in actuality is lonely, and will be played by Hunters‘ Britney Oldford. #4 will be Alphonso, a scarred fighter with a “biting sense of humor,” played by Designated Survivor’sJake Epstein. #5 will be Sloane, played by Genesis Rodriguez (who voiced a character in Big Hero 6). #6 is Jayme, a loner who “doesn’t say much because she doesn’t have to,” and is played by Cazzie David (yes, comedian Larry David’s daughter, who recently published her debut collection of essays). And #7 is being called “Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube,” which, uh, we’ll just leave that one be for now.
When will Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy be released?
Season 3 is set to premiere on Netflix–all 10 episodes at once–on June 22.
What will Umbrella Academy Season 3 be about?
Unlike the first season of The Umbrella Academy, the end of the second season actually found our heroes in a position of success—they managed to prevent the apocalypse. They also all seem to be in a pretty good place with one another, having lived for a few years in the ’60s; every member of the gang seems more mature than when we first met them in Season 1 (that’s character development, baby!).
It’s not all peaches and cream, though—as we saw at the very end of the season, their meddling in the past created an alternate timeline. And while the future they made it back to wasn’t destroyed by an apocalypse (or any of the Vanya-induced mania that we saw at the end of the first season), some things were very messed up. Let’s recap quickly: Reginald Hargreeves was still alive, and also didn’t recognize his adopted children. And, oh yeah—Ben is still alive, as we saw him at the forefront of another group of figures, the Sparrow Academy members, in silhouette. Or at least he’s alive in this reality.
So, that Season 2 ending gives us a pretty decent set up of what Season 3 would be—our guys have got to figure that whole mess out. And it’s a decent setup, too. After two seasons of the gang literally trying to save the world from impending doom and apocalypse, a season of smaller problems, trying to find themselves and straighten out the timelines, would be a nice change of pace.
In lieu of the Season 3 premiere, Netflix shared a few more details about the season, including a clip of the Hargreeves family in the Hotel Obsidian, which Klaus suggests as a place for them all to stay while they figure out their connection to The Sparrow Academy.
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