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The Umbrella Academy season 3 landed on Netflix on Wednesday 22nd June 2022 at 8am. Filming for season 3 wrapped in August 2021. Steve Blackman, showrunner for The Umbrella Academy, shared a...
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- The Umbrella Academy season 3 release date: June 22
- The Umbrella Academy season 3 trailer: check out the official teaser
- The Umbrella Academy season 3 plot: what can we expect?
- The Umbrella Academy season 3 episode titles: what are they?
- The Umbrella Academy season 3 cast: who is returning?
- The Umbrella Academy season 3: who has been cast as The Sparrow Academy?
- The Umbrella Academy season 3: what questions need answering?
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It's Brellies vs Sparrows in The Umbrella Academy season 3
The Umbrella Academy season 3 will launch exclusively on Netflix on Wednesday, June 22, meaning Netflix is foregoing its traditional Friday launch schedule for the show's return.
Announced during SXSW 2022, the launch date unveiling was accompanied by a brief teaser, which suggests that the Umbrella and Sparrow academies will fight it out during the season 3 premiere. Place your bets on who'll win (though we suspect it'll be the Sparrows. Sorry, Brellies):
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On the surface, it seems odd that Netflix is releasing The Umbrella Academy season 3 on a Wednesday. As we mentioned, the streaming giant usually releases new content on Fridays, so what's the reason for the change?
In short, Stranger Things season 4. Netflix's wildly popular series is being released in two parts this year, with the first batch available to stream now. Meanwhile, the second half (or, rather, episodes 8 and 9, which are feature film in length) arrive on July 1 – just nine days before The Umbrella Academy's return.
After months of waiting, The Umbrella Academy season 3's official trailer was released online on May 19. Set to the tune Ballroom Blitz by Sweet, the teaser is packed full of action and also reveals some new plot details about the series' next instalment.
We see The Umbrella and Sparrow academies duking it out (they even stop for one of those dance numbers at some point) and being at odds with one another. We suspect it won't be long before they team up, though, given events that may transpire if The Umbrella Academy doesn't return to its own timeline.
Yes, as you've likely guessed, Viktor, Luther, and company will have to avert another apocalypse. This time, it's something referred to as a kugelblitz – the name of one of season 3's episode titles, funnily enough – which is essentially a black hole that'll destroy all matter in the universe. That is, unless the two academies band together, reverse the time paradox that The Umbrella Academy created, and send them back to their own reality. They've only got five days to do so, too, so time's a tickin'. There's plenty of other stand-out moments in the trailer, but we'll let you find those out for yourself.
During an Umbrella Academy panel at Netflix Geeked Week 2022, the streaming company released another sneak peek at season 3. This time, it shows the gang checking into the Hotel Obsidian, a key location in this batch of episodes:
This Umbrella Academy Season 3 sneak peek reminds me just how much I've missed The Hargreeves. #GeekedWeek pic.twitter.com/cYYhofivnWJune 6, 2022
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Disclaimer: we've seen The Umbrella Academy season 3 in its entirety, but you won't find any story-based spoilers in this section. Full spoilers follow for seasons 1 and 2, plus the graphic novels, though.
Here's the official plot synopsis, courtesy of Netflix's Tudum website: "The last time we saw the Umbrella Academy, they had just stopped 1963’s doomsday. Convinced they prevented the initial apocalypse and fixed this timeline for good, they return home to the present day. However, the celebration is short-lived when the crew realizes things aren’t exactly (okay, not at all) how they left them.
"Enter the Sparrow Academy. About as warm as a sea of icebergs, the Sparrows immediately clash with the Umbrellas in a violent face-off that turns out to be the least of everyone’s concerns. Navigating challenges, losses and surprises of their own — and dealing with an unidentified destructive entity wreaking havoc in the universe — the Umbrellas need to convince Dad’s new family to help them put right what their arrival made wrong.
"Will they find a way back to their pre-apocalyptic lives in the upcoming season? Or is this new world about to reveal more than just a hiccup in the timeline?"
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The titles for each of season 3's episodes were revealed by showrunner Steve Blackman during Day 2 of Netflix Geeked Week 2021:
•301: Meet the Family
•302: World's Biggest Ball of Twine
•303: Pocket Full of Lightning
•304: Kugelblitz
•305: Kindest Cut
The series' eight main cast members, plus two supporting characters, are back for season 3:
•Elliot Page as Viktor Hargreeves/Number Seven
•Tom Hopper as Luther Hargreeves/Number One
•David Castenada as Diego Hargreeves/Number Two
•Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves/Number Three
•Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves/Number Four
Spoilers for The Umbrella Academy comic book volume 3: Hotel Oblivion.
Hotel Oblivion's ending only gives us one real name and one moniker, with the latter being the group's leader, aka Number One. In the comics, the only other Sparrow Academy name we learn about is Carla, who takes Vanya to meet the group before they rescue The Umbrella Academy from being defeated by numerous supervillains.
Unfortunately, Carla doesn't feature in season 3, but Netflix has confirmed which actors will appear as The Sparrow Academy's members:
•Justin Cornwell as Marcus Hargreeves/Number One
•Britne Oldford as Fei Hargreeves/Number Three
•Jake Epstein as Alphonso Hargreeves/Number Four
Spoilers for The Umbrella Academy comic books, as well as seasons 1 and 2.
The Umbrella Academy has built up an intriguingly complex mythology, and that means there are plenty of questions that viewers need answering.
Fans of the TV series still don't know why 43 children were unexpectedly born on October 1, 1989, to mothers who weren’t pregnant when the day began. Or even what happened to most of those kids. Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's comics reveal how this came to be in the opening pages of volume one – Apocalypse Suite – but, in case this revelation comes to light in the show, we won't divulge it just yet.
In the comics, 13 of that number are known as The Umbrella and Sparrow Academy members. However, the show also introduced Lila as a potential 14th who we haven't seen in the graphic novels yet.
That means that there are still 29 or 30 – depending on the medium of your choice – who are yet to be revealed. The problem now, of course, is that the TV series could move ahead of the comics (like Game of Thrones did) and unveil those individuals, or plot points that may come to the comics in the future. Given that Blackman is taking the show in its own creative direction, though, that potential issue may be sidestepped entirely.
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No, but it may not run for much longer. In his chat with IGN, Blackman confirmed that the show wouldn't run for 10 seasons, which is the number of graphic novel volumes that Way and collaborator Gabriel Ba have in mind.
"I know where I'm going," Blackman said. "I'd like another season for sure. From the very early start of this, I had an idea where I wanted the TV show to end and I would love to have another season to get close to that ending. I already know what I want the endgame to be. That is obviously going to be different than where Gerard is going, because he has much more stuff he wants to do with these amazing characters that he created."
Our hope is that The Umbrella Academy season 3 acts as the midway point for the series, and that we'll get at least two more seasons out of it. There's plenty of material in the comics that could make the jump from the page to the small screen, but it remains to be seen if Blackman will use any of that, given that the show is diverging from the source material.
Either way, this isn't the end of The Umbrella Academy on Netflix. It'll be a sad day when it's over but, for now, at least we've got a third season to enjoy.
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The third season of the superhero comedy drama television series The Umbrella Academy was released on Netflix on June 22, 2022, and consisted of 10 episodes. Created for television by Steve Blackman and developed Jeremy Slater, the series is an adaptation of the comic book series of the same name written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel ...
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