The Umbrella Academy

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Season 2
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 15, 2019
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 119 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 119
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 119
  3. Negative: 18 out of 119

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  1. DaveAus
    Sep 14, 2020
    3
    While it somewhat recycles the plot of season 1, the new setting is nice. Most of the cast is still great. It relies a bit to much in incorrect and offensive stereotypes on the 1960's. Ellen Page looks sick and bored in all of her scenes as usual.
  2. Borat
    Sep 7, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The first season the planet was destroyed over a girl pissed over her boyfriend.

    The second season the earth is destroyed by the same girl pissed over her girlfriend. Traahm    … Expand
  3. preciado_101
    Aug 13, 2020
    3
    Boring, repetitive, the problems are basically the same as in season 1 but just seen from different perspectives until... you basically fall asleep for 4 episodes in a row. Nothing ever happens or it sorta feel like that even if something is actually happening.
  4. Barny
    Aug 9, 2020
    2
    When current events and politically correct interests interfere with a show, you end up with the Season 2 of the Umbrella Academy. It is much weaker than Season 1 and very frustrating to watch at time, it does not look like it heading the right way.
  5. Dakertin
    Jul 31, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Far too much love interests in S2 and because of that I can guarantee it'll do much worse than S1. Such a shame they had to dirty such a promising show with a mediocre follow up. Anya angery girl who has emotional issues. How can we milk it even more, hmm? How about repeating the season but adding another character who is fairly similar and also has OP power.

    *YAWN*

    More backstory on the father and ben would of been better or focus more on other people who obtained powers.    … Expand
  6. TrapKing101
    Jul 31, 2020
    0
    Lazy second season. Spent too much time on "hot topic issues" instead if giving us an interesting follow up on a decent first season. Second season was pretty similar to first and ending is pretty similar too. Not going to bother following the show after this joke season.
  7. Teapot619
    Jul 31, 2020
    0
    Booooooo. Should of left it at where it was with the state of what we got. The ending of S3 should of been S2 as what we got was pretty much a copy and paste.

Awards & Rankings

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#15 Most Discussed TV Season of 2020

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. The Detroit News
    Reviewed by: Tom Long
    Aug 14, 2020
    75
    The violence factor is as high as the candy-colored production values, Kate Walsh returns as the dripping-evil top villain, and Ritu Arya adds snap as a sharp-talking wild card. Race and LGBTQ issues provide ballast, but for the most part “The Umbrella Academy” is just inspired bloody silliness the second time around.
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  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Alex Abad-Santos
    Aug 3, 2020
    90
    All that time spent on extreme exposition pays off in a flashier, more entertaining, tighter second chapter. Season one of Umbrella Academy set the board, and season two plays the game. There’s a lot more zapping and superpower-ing in season two, which should appease comic book fans who want to see superheroes do that kind of thing. But it also swings for something way more emotionally resonant.
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  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Steve Greene
    Jul 31, 2020
    50
    For a show with an occasionally impressive exterior (the interplay between Klaus and Ben gets an impressive-looking added wrinkle), the emotional heartbeat underneath is largely absent. Part of that comes from being stretched thin enough that characters without a well-established core are often left flailing, but it’s mostly due to the show’s continued affinity for the reset button.
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