The second season of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy ended not only with a dramatic confrontation (naturally), but with a game-changing reveal. (That kind of thing tends to happen when you’ve been messing with the timeline, no?)
With season three set to start filming in Toronto next month, it’s time for teasers and reveals and casting news! The seven siblings from the first two seasons will all be back (well, mostly? sort of?), along with Ritu Arya’s Lila, but it’s time to meet the new class.
When the Hargreeves family returned to the present day, all was not as they expected it to be. It’s April 2, 2019, but Reginald Hargreeves is alive, the mansion is far from empty—and it isn’t their home. The painting over the mantel is of Ben, not Five. This isn’t the Umbrella Academy.
It’s the Sparrow Academy.
And now we get to meet the Sparrows: Marcus (Justin Cornwell), Ben (Justin H. Min), Fei (Britne Oldford), Alphonso (Jake Epstein), Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez), Jayme (Cazzie David), and everyone’s new favorite character, Christopher (EXISTENTIAL DREAD INDUCING PSYKRONIUM CUBE).
JUSTIN H. MIN will play BEN … but not the one we know. This Ben is scheming, tactical and vicious, determined to gain his status as leader. pic.twitter.com/AJnYCRgEJ0
— Netflix (@netflix) January 11, 2021
JAKE EPSTEIN will play ALPHONSO — a scarred crime-fighter with a caustic and biting sense of humor who enjoys verbally berating his enemies, almost as much as he enjoys a good pizza and a six-pack of beer. pic.twitter.com/aqxUU9PMp0
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) January 11, 2021
CAZZIE DAVID will play JAYME, a loner with a fear-inducing snarl you’d be wise to avoid at all costs. She doesn’t say much because she doesn’t have to. pic.twitter.com/l17wZ50ar8
— Umbrella Academy (@UmbrellaAcad) January 11, 2021
EXISTENTIAL DREAD INDUCING PSYKRONIUM CUBE (Newcomer) will play CHRISTOPHER, a telekinetic cube that can turn the room freezing cold and induce paralyzing fear without so much of a warning. The trustworthy, loyal oracle of the Sparrows is treated as just another sibling. pic.twitter.com/EGXjmRxvkS
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) January 11, 2021
So we get Ben back—but not exactly. (I’m not complaining, okay? I love Ben.)
The Sparrows were introduced briefly in the third volume of the comics, Hotel Oblivion, and the not-yet-released fourth volume will be titled Sparrow Academy. It’s hard to say how closely the show will hew to the books, given that we don’t know much yet about the Sparrows, their powers, or their upbringing.
We anxiously await word on when the Sparrows and the Umbrellas will appear on our screens.
