ABOVE: “The Umbrella Academy” cast dance in promotional video for the show’s second season. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Netflix announced the release date to the second season of its superhero series “The Umbrella Academy” with the help of its cast May 18.
Led by star Ellen Page, cast members Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H. Min helped to re-create the popular dance scene from season 1 in a video while self-quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the video, as in the original scene, the seven adopted siblings dance to Tiffany’s 1987 pop classic “I Think We’re Alone Now” separately but within the same scene. Toward the end of the promotional video, Min holds up a card with “The Umbrella Academy” season 2 logo and its release date of July 31.
Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” which also stars Mary J. Blige and Cameron Britton, is based on the Dark Horse Comic of the same name about “a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who reunite to solve the mystery of their father’s death and the threat of an impending apocalypse.”
The show’s first season was released on Netflix on Feb. 15, 2019 to mostly positive reviews. The show was the third most watched series on the popular streaming service in 2019.
The show’s first season — along with the first season of DC’s “Doom Patrol,” another superhero team-up series which debuted on the DC Universe streaming service at the same time as “The Umbrella Academy” — was praised by many in the community for its inclusion of queer characters and storylines, something that was not in “The Umbrella Academy” original comic book run and has been noticeably absent in many of the films and TV shows in the wildly popular superheroes genre. Warner Bros. recently announced that “Doom Patrol” season 2 would be released on its new HBO Max streaming service June 25, a month before “The Umbrella Academy’s” second season.
Watch “The Umbrella Academy” season 2 teaser below.
https://youtu.be/jsigH18Brs0
