Loved: The “Footloose” dance battle
When the Hargreeves siblings return to 2019, the timeline has been so altered by their past actions that the Umbrella Academy itself doesn’t exist. In its place: the seven surly members of the similarly (but not identically) super-powered Sparrow Academy. One of the Sparrows has the gift of spitting what amounts to reality-altering saliva on her victims, which is how we get a hallucination that imagines a fully choreographed Hargreeves vs. Hargreeves dance-off—set to the toe-tapping beat of Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose.” It’s not real, but it’s wonderful.
