What happened in season one of The Umbrella Academy?
In 2019, Sir Reginald Hargreeves dies, and the estranged siblings have their first reunion in years—coinciding with the time-travel return of Number Five, who brings with him news of the apocalypse and his scheme to prevent it (as well as those assassins who’ve been instructed to make sure doomsday proceeds as planned, though that all gets very complicated). For the viewer, it’s 10 episodes that introduce us to all the main characters, their variously damaged lives, and their variously fraught relationships with each other. The big conflict arrives when Viktor’s long-dormant powers are awakened and are revealed to be the cause of the apocalypse.
