Netflix's Umbrella Academy S1 and 2 Crash Course Ahead of S3

The Hargreeves siblings were raised by an eccentric father figure who was interested in their various powers after they were born on the same fated day. The third season of The Umbrella Academy is on the streaming service. Do you know if you're ready? Don't forget to keep reading for a quick recap.

The main characters of The Umbrella Academy are the Hargreeves siblings, who are based on the Dark Horse comic book series. Diego, played by David Castaeda, is a self-styled superhero in the first season who is obsessed with fighting bad guys and an escaped mental patient in the second season who is obsessed with stopping Lee Harvey Oswald from assassinating the President. He has the ability to curve the trajectory of weapons flying through the air.

In the first season of the show, Number Five returns from an accidentally long stint in the future, which explains why he still looks like a teen when his siblings are all 30. He was hired by the Commission as an assassin, traveling around eliminating people who threaten the timelines. Five is the target of two assassins in the first season because he wants his siblings to stop the apocalypse. The Hargreeves don't stop it, but Five uses his powers to get them to the past. He has a new Commission headaches in the second season.

Klaus Hargreeves is a cult leader who can communicate with the dead and is a recovering drug and alcohol addiction. Ben died on a mission when the siblings were kids but occasionally flexes his powers with Klaus' help, though during season two he ends up leaving the ghost life behind and entering the afterlife. Allison Hargreeves is a famous actress when we first meet her in season one and a civil rights activist in season two; her power, which she tries not to deploy, is a form of mind control.

Even though he had no special powers, Viktor Hargreeves was able to transform sound waves into devastating physical force because he was the most powerful among them. The first apocalypse was caused by Viktor's anger at the end of season one, which caused the moon to shatter. The scope of Viktor's powers and his relationships with the other Hargreeves will be reexamined in season two.

Tom Hopper's Luther Hargreeves has the torso of an ape after being saved by an experimental treatment that saved his life. He spent four years on the moon conducting research for his father, which he later learned was pointless, and in season two he works security at a club owned by Jack Ruby. A sensitive guy despite his giant size, he is in love with Allison, but it is difficult to act on for a variety of reasons.

Seven of the 43 children born that fateful 1989 day were adopted by a mysterious billionaire named Sir Reggie Hargreeves, who founded the Umbrella Academy to study them and train them into being a superhero team. In season one, we see that he wasn't a good source of comfort to his family. The nurturing was given to the robot Grace, also known as Mom, and a Chimpanzee named Pogo. In the second season, we meet younger versions of all three of them. An event that ties into The Umbrella Academy's second apocalypse is the assassination of Kennedy by a group of people called the Majestic 12.

The second season introduces us to another one of the 43 kids, who was raised by the Commission's devious, flamboyantly stylish handler, who was working as an assassin for the Commission. As a result of being sent on a mission by her mother to keep an eye on the Hargreeves, Lila has a dislike for Diego. At the end of season two, Lila learns the truth about her mother's hand in her tragic past, and escapes with one of the Commission's time-traveling briefcase devices, as The Umbrella Academy's marketing has made clear, she returns for season three.

At the end of season two, the Umbrella Academy gets a glimpse of what the Sparrow Academy will look like in season three. Ben Hargreeves is a different version of the one we know and love. There will be more introduced as the season progresses, but these are just the characters we know about already.

The time-travel return of Number Five coincides with the news of the apocalypse and his plan to prevent it, as well as those assassins who have been instructed. The 10 episodes introduce us to all the main characters, their variously damaged lives, and their relationships with each other. When Viktor's powers are awakened, they are shown to be the cause of the apocalypse.

The plan to escape season one's apocalypse doesn't go off without a hitch. All of the Hargreeves are in Dallas, Texas, in the first few years of the 1960s. They came back. The apocalypse was caused by World War III, which broke out in the wake of Kennedy's non-assassination, and once again Commission assassins are dispatched to try and keep them from interfering. There is a bit more teamwork and understanding between the siblings this time around.

The second apocalypse will be triggered by Viktor, who will blow up the FBI office where he is being held after being tortured by the FBI. The Soviet Union is blamed for the explosion that killed Kennedy. Nuclear weapons with them.