The Umbrella Academy, Season 2
- Eloi Silver Medal
- by multiple writers and directors
- TV Season
- Superhero
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- The Umbrella Academy, Season 2 by multiple writers and directors, ten episodes (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
Five’s plan for the Umbrella siblings to escape the apocalypse by going into the past ends up scattering them throughout different years of Dallas in the 1960s. They manage okay on their own until shortly after 11/22/63, when secondary effects from changes to the timeline cause a nuclear holocaust that can be averted only by recently arrived Five jumping back to 11/15/63 to exert his unique charm into getting the gang to work together.
—Michael Main
Hazel to Five: If you want to live, come with me.”
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: Dallas between 1960 and 25 November 1963, then back to 15 November 1963.
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: 1993 London (briefly in an opening flashback) and 1982 Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: starting time for the siblings on 1 April 2019, and two later jumps, too.
- Timeline Models
- Hypertime: Despite the fact that the Commission’s headquarters is sometimes labeled as being in the 1950s, we’re convinced that it exists in a hypertime from which it can see and manipulate a single “real-world” timeline.
- Time Runs in Reverse for Some Beings: Curse that writer Steve Blackman! May he never have an umbrella when he needs one and always have one when he doesn’t!
- Time Travel Methods
- Equation-Induced Time Travel: The first time through, I got the calculation wrong. That’s how I ended up in this body. But now I know the correct calculation.
- Innate Time Travelers: Number Five
- Luggable Time Machine
- Themes
- Anachronistic Music, Dance, and Other Creations: ♫ As long as I know how to love, I know I’ll stay alive ♫ and other hits.
- Fix Your Time Travel Screw-Up!: Five goes back ten days, hoping to fix the screw-up that led to a nuclear holocaust on 25 November 1963, even if it means that Diego’s plan to Save JFK! must be cast aside.
- Letters, Texts, Phone Calls, Talking, and Other Direct Communications through Time: The Swede’s pneumatic transport tube.
- Long Life: Hargreeves and Five
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: Dad?[/d] Although, admittedly, this is their adopted dad.
- Objects Meets Self with Dire Consequences: The seven dire consequences of meeting yourself.
- Save JFK!: Okay, here’s the plan: Oswald finishes his shift at 4:30 p.m. Once he walks out those doors, we force him into the front seat—
- Save the Bigwig (excluding JFK and Lincoln)!
- Save “Lois”!: Franz pleads with Dave to not enlist.
- Self-Visitation: Young-body Five meets his fifteen-days-younger old-body Five.
- Stop the Apocalypse!: the impending nuclear holocaust
- Time Cabal: The Commission and their cast of thousands.
- Real-World Tags
- Civil Rights Movements: Allison and Raymond.
- Cold War: “If there is one thing the FBI takes seriously, it is the Communist threat to this country.”
- Crop Circles: Oops. Vanya didn’t know her own strength.
- Frankel Footage: Hazel gave it to Five.
- Jack Ruby
- Fictional Tags
- Ghosts: Ben, usually just seen by Klaus
- Smart Simians: Young Pogo
- Groupings
Variants
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- The Umbrella Academy, Season 2 by multiple writers and directors, ten episodes (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “Right Back Where We Started” by Steve Blackman, directed by Sylvan White (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “The Frankel Footage” by Mark Goffman, directed by Stephen Surjik (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “The Swedish Job” by Jesse McKeown, directed by Stephen Surjik (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “The Majestic 12” by Brownwyn Garrity, directed by Tom Verica (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “Valhalla” by Robert Askins, directed by Tom Verica (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “A Light Supper” by Aeryn Michelle Williams, directed by Ellen Kuras (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “Öga for Öga” by Nikki Schiefelbein, directed by Aeryn Michelle Williams (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “The Seven Stages” by Mark Goffman and Jesse McKeown, directed by Amanda Marsalis (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “743” by Brownwyn Garrity, directed by Amanda Marsalis (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
- “The End of Something” by Steve Blackman, directed by Jeremy Webb (Netflix, USA, 31 July 2020).
Indexer Notes
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- The Ending—Up in the ITTDB Citadel, we gave a collective groan when Five rewound time to save the day at the end of Episode 10. It was a cheat on the writers part to fix everything by using a power that had never shown up before, and it set things up so that no future mistake will ever be a problem. We can’t understand why the writers missed a much more powerful ending of mortally wounded Five jumping back in time a couple minutes with his final bit of strength to warn everyone. Then wounded Five can die happy, while warned Five and his sibs kick ass.