Time paradoxes, impending doom, dance-offs… season 3 is finally here!
Really puts a damper on the high they must have been feeling from all that saving the world business.
There is, however, one major difference.
Tom Hopper as Luther Hargreeves, Justin Cornwell as Marcus.Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix
I’d expect that discrepancy will somehow figure into the overall arc of the season.
But while the Sparrows have mastered their skills as superheroes, they also seem much colder.
Most of the time.
Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez) in ‘The Umbrella Academy’ season 3.Netflix
We’ll come back to it.
Upstairs, there’s more smack talk between the two groups.
Ben seems really bothered by the way the Umbrellas think they know him.
Colm Feore as Reginald Hargreeves.Netflix
Jayme spits her venom on Diego.
Both Number Ones decide this beef needs to be settled “the old fashioned way.”
And then everyone starts dancing to “Footloose.”
Viktor Hargreeves (Elliot Page) has a sit-down with Marcus (Justin Cornwell) in ‘The Umbrella Academy’ season 3.Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix
Oh friends,The Umbrella Academyreallyisback.
It’s a full-length dance-off and it is incredible.
Luther’s crab move makes a reappearance.
Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves, Elliot Page as Viktor Hargreeves, David Castañeda as Diego Hargreeves, Aidan Gallagher as Number Five, Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves.Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix
Christopher the Cube blasts confetti all over the room.
Anyway, it’s all in Diego’s head yep, that hallucinatory venom will get you every time.
The two academies go at it and it’s very evident that the Umbrellas are out-matched.
Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves.Netflix
Like, it’s not even close.
The Sparrows were not expecting that.
Hey, I didn’t say it was good news, I said it was interesting news.
Ben (Justin H. Min) meets with Fei (Britne Oldford) in ‘The Umbrella Academy’ season 3.Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix
It’s perfect for these guys!
I ended the world twice.
You’re just meat in spandex."
Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves, David Castañeda as Diego Hargreeves, Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton as Stan.Netflix
So, yeah, Marcus heads home to find the briefcase.
in its path including Marcus.
That’s not good!
Pogo in episode 305 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’.Netflix
“We won,” he says, toasting to a job well done.
Oh buddy, he has no idea.
That’s something, right?
Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves.Netflix
But the most emotional spoke on episode two’s wheel of plot belongs to Viktor and Allison.
And it’s true, Viktor is emotional.
In that spirit, Viktor decides to finallycome out as trans.
Viktor looks lighter, relieved.
No worlds are being destroyed and that’s a nice change of pace for the old man.
Well, there’s no way Viktor was going to go without her, he says.
It’s a very sweet moment for these two, who have a complicated but close relationship.
His whole life, he felt “strange” in his own skin and hated seeing himself in mirrors.
Sissy helped him realize that he was hiding from who he really is.
Now looking at his reflection, he finally sees himself.
It’s a lovely way to do a coming out story.
The meeting does not go as well as that conversation, however.
Marcus, of course, never shows with the briefcase because Marcus has been eaten by that orb thing.
The thought of not getting to fix things and be with her daughter sends Allison spiraling.
Three is unwell, friends.
It’s Klaus’s birth mother!
And now he’d like to find her and see what his life could’ve been.
He enlists Five, who is really leaning into that retirement life, for the road trip.
Klaus ends up tracking down Rachel’s sister amongst an Amish community in Pennsylvania.
Curious isn’t it?
Now that’sverycurious, isn’t it?
It’s all of their mothers.
They all died before any of them were born.
That is going to be a big, big problem.
Episode 3: Pocket Full of Lightning
Welcome to the Commission Players Present: The Grandfather Paradox!
Actually, it ends with someone saying “God help us all,” but you get the picture.
It’s bad and it is currently the predicament the Hargreeves siblings have found themselves in.
While they do that, the rest of the siblings have much more earthly matters to contend with.
Remember that thing I said about Three being unwell?
Well, yeah, we should all be concerned about Allison.
She’s drinking non-stop and is angrier than we’ve ever seen her.
She wants that briefcase from the Sparrows and she wants it now.
He also tells them that he watched people just straight-up disappear from another energy wave.
They put two-and-two together and realize Marcus must have been swallowed up by whatever is terrorizing the city.
Allison couldn’t care less.
Viktor can’t help but notice the changes in his sister.
They make a plan to do an exchange later at the hotel.
Just a guess but, it doesn’t seem like it will go well!!
He’s making mixed tapes!
That feature songs by Lionel Richie!
He’s all-in on Sloane.
Do you feel loved?"
When Viktor responds that he does, Diego says, “Good, ‘cause you are.”
10 razor for his haircut.
It, um, goes poorly almost immediately.
Things escalate until Ben orders Christopher to attack the Umbrellas.
Well, his appearance certainly adds a new wrinkle to things, doesn’t it?
Time travel, as always, is a bitch.
After Five watches a video that a now-dead Herb (RIP, buddy!)
It turns out that Five is the Founder of the Commission.
He’s missing an arm and has a strange tattoo on his chest.
(Again with that word!)
His dying words to himself are “whatever you do, don’t save the world.”
Back at the Obsidian, the other Umbrellas are dealing with a Harlan problem.
When Viktor let out that big wave during that first fight with the Sparrows?
That’s what drew Harlan to Viktor’s location.
But that connection has a real down side.
Like, the worst down side.
He killed the mothers, thus setting the Grandfather Paradox into motion.
Viktor knows that his siblings will not take this news well.
you’ve got the option to see it in his face that he fears what will come next.
Should we kick things off with that Allison and Luther scene?
This is their third apocalypse in a month!
Plan B is to team up with the Sparrows and fight this thing together.
Of course, the Sparrows won’t play ball until the Umbrellas turn over Harlan.
Viktor is not going to let that happen without a fight.
All of this disagreement over what to do next really hits Allison hard.
Luther is the first sibling to really see how much, because of course he is.
She’s tired of losing people.
When Luther goes to hold her, she goes in for a kiss.
At one point, that would’ve been his dream come true.
When he backs off and explains that he’s seeing Sloane, Allison’s whole demeanor changes.
He’s yet another person she’s lost.
She rumors him to stay.
She rumors him to “want” her.
It goes bad, fast.
Finally, Allison yells to stop and the “rumor” breaks.
Luther is crushed that she would betray him by using her powers on him.
His siblings think the end having a fighting shot against the Kugelblitz and saving the universe justifies the means.
Viktor makes a choice: He sneaks Harlan out of the hotel to buy him time.
While he’s doing it, he runs into Allison, who he begs not to tell the others.
Viktor is moved that Allison would support him like this.
“You’d do it for me, right?”
The rest of the group isn’t so amenable.
You managed to destroy everything, again."
Hey, at least Diego gets a happy moment in this story, right?
Remember that disastrous dinner in Dallas when Reginald tore Diego apart?
But with this Stanley storyline, we get the mirror image of all that.
Even when Stanley accidentally kills Diego’s brother!
What a thing to see!
A mystery for another day, perhaps!
Let that sentence sink in!
And her instinct is right.
So that’s something interesting and fun that will probably come up later!
Both Harlan and Viktor, however, don’t want her interfering.
Allison is the saddest girl, to be honest.
Is she angrier at Harlan for what he did, or at Viktor for keeping the truth from her?
Wait until Viktor finds out.
Take Diego, for instance.
And what do you think that hotel is named?
It’s the Hotel Oblivion.
Trudy will be so mad!
That’s all Pogo needs to hear he knows that “it’s happened.”
Reginald called it “Project Oblivion.”
Based on Diego’s experience there, Pogo’s right about it being dangerous.
Five’s time with Pogo doesn’t end there.
It’s also how everyone is present for the big Allison/Viktor confrontation that we knew was coming.
It couldn’t take another wave.
And so the two families celebrate their hard-earned victory: There is champagne!
Of course there’s dancing, you know what show this is.
Viktor doesn’t believe that way of thinking, he says but that’s exactly what worries Five.
He’ll kill him if he ever does it again.
“You know what they call a superhero who works alone and doesn’t listen to anybody?
We find Ben, Fei, and Christopher discussing next moves.
), but Ben says they aren’t done with them yet.
He has some sort of deal with Reginald.
The vibration is too much with the Kugelblitz inside and Christopher explodes, killing Fei with him.
The Kugelblitz sends out its deadliest wave yet as it begins to grow into an alarming size.
Whatever they’re doing is malfunctioning, so why not take the opposite approach and embrace the end times?
An Umbrella Academy wedding?
That’s the stuff dreams are made of.
He’s not even invited to the wedding.
and all the guys are invited except for Ben.
He’s all alone.
Plus, who wouldn’t want to be invited to this karaoke party?
A chance to sing “The Time of My Life” with the Hargreeves brothers, come on!
When Reggie finally shows up and tries to make nice with everyone it includes poetry!
Lila gets Diego to talk to him and in a true surprise, Reggie actually compliments the guy.
It’s all he’s ever wanted.
He wants forgiveness for betraying her, but she won’t give it.
They end the night sitting outside together taking in the burning end-of-the-world sky.
Here at the end of the world, he finally gets that.
He finally has “everybody coming together when it really matters.”
Is everyone going to make it out of this apocalypse alive?
That’s so cute.
Five is right, and the consequences of no one else seeing it are dire.
Five thinks this is all some sort of trap.
Hmm, it’s almost as if this whole thing was planned.
She’s trying to win him over.
To remind him of family sticking together.
She makes that same play when the group reconvenes.
Everyone heads off to face the end of the world via Kugelblitz in their own way.
He did everything that was asked of him and he ended up being manipulated and used.
He won’t allow that anymore.
Reginald calls him “remarkable” and asks for forgiveness.
“The best way to bring a family together is at a wedding or a funeral.
We tried the one, now it’s time for the other.”
Once again, one last time, Reginald is using Luther.
Yet another son Reginald has used and discarded.
It seems like that quick thinking might be the key to everything.
Episode 10: Oblivion
And so Reginald Hargreeves finally gets to put Project Oblivion into action.
The group sans Luther and Klaus make it through the tunnel and take in the Hotel Oblivion scenery.
Reggie once again spins a story about how Klaus didn’t make it.
If they can find the sigil, they can reset the universe.
He splits people into groups and sends them off on separate adventures.
Sloane is left to listen to Ben whine about how daddy doesn’t appreciate him enough.
Ben can’t shake the moody, scheming bad guy he’s become.
And that’s when the hotel starts changing.
Walls show up where they weren’t before, people walk out of one room and onto another floor.
It’s trippy and does not bode well for the Hargreeves children.
But wait there’s another Hargreeves grouping we should talk about: Klaus and Luther.
They need to warn the others, Klaus needs to go back.
Klaus is hesitant since, you know, “there’s no pain in the void!”
Luther pleads with him, then threatens him, and finally, Klaus agrees.
The battle is about to begin.
I am one bell ring away from my prize!”
It’s a bad look!
And then Reginald rings that bell.
We’ve seen what happens next before the lethal Guardians arrive.
), and the two of them use Viktor’s power to kill the Guardian they come across.
Five, Sloane, and a reluctant Ben come together to kill a second one.
As Luther fades away, he and Sloane get the goodbye they weren’t afforded before.
“I will love you forever,” he tells her.
Five realizes that the sigil is hidden in a pattern of seven stars on the floor of the lobby.
Curiously, he orders Allison to see to it she stays off of the stars.
This is where her deal is coming into play.
It’s killing them.
The hotel fades away and they’re left standing in some giant, glowing machine.
Their bodies fuel the machine.
And she pushes the button.
And everything goes black.
We immediately find Allison back at her house in California.
And then she finds Ray there too.
How is this possible?
The rest of the gang get off the hotel elevator and it opens up into a garden.
The world is back.
The universe has been reset.
Sloane is missing, but you know who is alive and well and no longer part ape?
He’s alive now.
Five’s arm and Diego’s fingers are all back.
And maybe most alarmingly:All of their powers are gone.
They have no time to dive into what that means.
Luther runs off to look for Sloane.
Diego and Lila walk away to go start living their lives together.
A whiny Ben stomps off.
Five is more confused than ever and walks off, seemingly to go figure a few things out.
Finally, we see Reginald standing above it all with his now-alive wife Abigail at his side.
What did this guy do now?
And that’s season 3!
Stick around EW for plenty of more coverage on the latest season.The Umbrella Academyis now streaming on Netflix.
