Spoilers for season 1 of The Umbrella Academy below.
Your favorite ragtag group of superhero siblings are reuniting for a second season. Netflix announced The Umbrella Academy season 2 will premiere on Friday, July 31. When the unconventional comic book series' first season hit Netflix in February 2019, it became one of Netflix's Top 10 most popular releases that year, Deadline reports. Watch the new trailer above, then read on for everything we know about the new installment.
The Umbrella Academy season 2 hits Netflix in July.
Cast members from the hit Netflix series announced via a socially-distant video montage that a second season drops on July 31. The show, based on the graphic novel series by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way and illustrator Gabriel Bá, will follow its first season format with another 10 episodes dropping at once.
The first trailer for season 2 dropped just a few weeks before the episodes will hit Netflix. During the preview, set to a track called "Here Comes The End" by Gerard Way, the superheroes are prepping for another end-of-the-world scenario. In this case, it takes place in the '60s and has possible ties to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
All seven of the central superheroes are set to return.
The White Violin (Ellen Page), Spaceboy (Tom Hopper), The Kraken (David Castañeda), The Rumor (Emmy Raver-Lampman), The Seance (Robert Sheehan), and The Boy (Aidan Gallagher) are all returning for season 2 of The Umbrella Academy. All seven main actors appeared in the announcement video and will reprise their roles.
Steve Blackman will also continue as the series' showrunner and executive producer. Jeff F. King, Mike Richardson, and Keith Goldberg will also executive produce season 2, per Deadline.
There's no word yet on whether other cast members will return alongside the Hargreeves siblings, including the villains (Kate Walsh as The Handler, Mary J. Blige as Cha-Cha, and Cameron Britton as Hazel) and Colm Feore as the family's late patriarch, Sir Reginald Hargreeves. However, the element of time travel introduced at the end of season 1 suggests anything is possible.
A trio of new cast members have been confirmed for season 2.
Joining the dysfunctional gang of superheroes are three new characters. TVLine reported in September that Yusuf Gatewood (The Originals) will play Raymond, a natural-born, confident leader; Marin Ireland (Homeland) will play the no-nonsense Texas mom Sissy; and Ritu Arya (Humans) will play Lila, a chameleon "who can be as brilliant or as clinically insane as the situation requires."
The second season will have to answer that time-traveling cliffhanger.
Season 1 of The Umbrella Academy followed seven of the 43 infants inexplicably born on the same day to unconnected women who showed no prior signs of pregnancy. The children at the center of the show were adopted by a billionaire (Hargreeves) who founded The Umbrella Academy as a training ground for superheroes. While the siblings initially go their separate ways, they reunite to solve the mystery surrounding their late father's death. But at the end of season 1, the team fails to stop a global apocalypse and are seemingly forced back in time.
An official description of the new season, via Netflix, reads:
"Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya’s 2019 apocalypse was risky. Well, he was right—the time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas. Over a three year period. Starting in 1960. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they’re the only ones who survived. Five is the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which - spoiler alert!—turns out is a result of the group’s disruption of the timeline (déjà vu, anyone?). Now the Umbrella Academy must find a way to reunite, figure out what caused doomsday, put a stop to it, and return to the present timeline to stop that other apocalypse. All while being hunted by a trio of ruthless Swedish assassins. But seriously, no pressure or anything."
