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Umbrella Academy Season Two Release Date Set
The second season of Umbrella Academy coming this summer, with a release date officially set. Netflix announced on Monday that the second season of the superhero series will premiere on July 31st, releasing an announcement teaser that you can see below.
The series is based on Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Dark Horse comic and stars Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, Marin Ireland, and Yusuf Gatewood.
The first season was a mega-hit for Netflix, ranking as their third most popular series release last year. The new season runs 10 episodes. The logline for the show is:
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 Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. But not everything went according to plan. In their teenage years, the family fractured and the team disbanded. Now, the six surviving thirty-something members reunite upon the news of Hargreeve’s passing. Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Vanya and Number Five work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father’s death. But the estranged family once again begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse