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What happened in season two of The Umbrella Academy?

Photo: Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix
Photo: Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix

To escape season one’s apocalypse, the siblings time-travel with Number Five, but the plan—like virtually all Umbrella Academy plans—doesn’t go off without a hitch. In this case, the Hargreeves are scattered across the first few years of the 1960s, though all land in Dallas, Texas. Eventually they reuninte. Once again, Number Five comes bearing news of the apocalypse—caused by World War III, which breaks out in the wake of Kennedy’s non-assassination, due to the Hargreeves’ intervention—and once again Commission assassins are dispatched to try and keep them from meddling with the timeline. And once again, the relationships between the siblings aren’t exactly harmonious, though there’s a tiny bit more teamwork and understanding this time around.