“The Umbrella Academy” cast recaps show before final season: 'Somehow, all this leads to a meme'
Elliot Page, Aidan Gallagher, Ritu Arya, and more stars catch you up on the past three seasons of the Netflix superhero show.
The first three seasons of The Umbrella Academy have been quite a wild and twisty ride. Ahead of the Netflix superhero series' fourth and final season premiere this week, the cast joined Entertainment Weekly to recap the long, strange road it's been.
Much like the original comic series The Umbrella Academy by writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Ba, season 1 of the show began with a flashback to Sir Reginald Hargreeves (described by star Elliot Page as "Elon Musk meets Howard Hughes") adopting seven children with superpowers, each born to different mothers on the same day. Flash forward to the present, where the siblings — including the time-displaced Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) but not the then-deceased Ben (Justin H. Min) — reunite for their adoptive father's funeral.
Victor Hargreeves (Page) has long felt estranged from the rest of the family, because he had been deceived into believing he was powerless. But when Victor's lover Leonard Peabody (John Magaro) helps him realize he has the ability to create extremely strong sound waves, Victor lashes out to a degree that brings about the apocalypse. But that was far from the only problematic relationship in season 1.
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"You are not to judge!" Ritu Arya (who plays the power-mimicking Lila) tells Emmy Raver-Lampman (who plays the mind-controlling Allison Hargreeves) in EW's video. "I'm sorry, who was falling in love with her brother?"
"Oh yeah, fair enough," Raver-Lampman says, in reference to Allison's romantic feelings for Luther Hargreeves (Tom Hopper).
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The cast of 'The Umbrella Academy' filming season 4.The Hargreeves heroes failed to stop the apocalypse in the season 1 finale, but were given a second chance by being catapulted back in time to the '60s. There, they meet a younger version of Hargreeves and get involved in the civil rights movement, among other things. But it was a small moment, of Victor and Five passing each other in cars, that became the most popular part of season 2.
"Somehow, all of this leads to a meme," Gallagher says.
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Raver-Lampman admitted she's never seen the car meme, which inspired Arya to do a reenactment of Gallagher's and Page's facial expressions.
Watch the full recap above. The Umbrella Academy season 4 takes its bow Aug. 8 on Netflix.
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