The extraordinary beings of the Umbrella Academy are set for a return. Netflix has announced they have renewed the live-action superhero series for a second season.
Season 2 will consist of 10-episodes and production will begin this summer in Toronto, Canada. The series, based on the Dark Horse Comics created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, will have its main cast return which includes Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and Justin Min. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
The renewal arrives a month and a half after Umbrella Academy debuted to mixed-to-warm reviews. The show carries a 76% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and many critics note that it starts off a tad slow but picks up as the series progresses. In The Umbrella Academy, 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 a billionaire who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. Now, the six surviving members reunite upon the news of their father’s passing and must work together to solve a mystery surrounding his death. But the estranged family begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.
