Umbrella Academy. Season Three, The World Has No Two Ends Without Three – Danger Room –

this is what i wanted Umbrella Academy back to the last season of the series (comics Gerard way Yes Gabriel Ba) Released on July 31, 2020, which is already far away. It’s one of Netflix’s biggest business assets, and the company knows it. Not surprisingly, season four stranger things† Maybe to take advantage of the charm.

In any case, the Hargreeves have won the public’s love for a series so charismatic and visually vibrant that their plot flaws have been overlooked. Not every show can say that.

A series with a great concept, despite a certain conscious point (and differentiation) in its second season, the premise was already more than sold out.a. So they repeat the program for the third season? Of course, cliff hanger It promised something completely different.

And finally there was lime and there was sand. On the one hand, yes, a show that dared to reinvent itself. But instead it is stated that they had to repeat the same skeleton: the end of the world caused by the erratic time travel that the heroes had to fix. Once you accept that this series is just a plot to be told and retold, you begin to appreciate the changes in approach.

And this season seems to want to underline: whatever is said. What matters is how. When you put a magnifying glass on this question, you realize that the characters have changed a lot throughout the series.

The series returns to the point where the previous one ended: the series are transported to a parallel universe. Umbrella Academy Instead, there was an alternative version called sparrow academy† And yes, Ben never died in that universe.

One of the most interesting things is the contrast of visions between the two academies. It’s clear that sparks are flying and this rivalry has made some of the best and funniest parts of the entire season. While the subject scheme couldn’t be more classical, numerous chapters are devoted to see what unites and separates both academies.

The best thing about parallel universe stories is the ability to imagine what the world would be like if something changed. IHis ability to drastically change the trivial is at the heart of this season. This leads the characters to reinvent themselves and understand new aspects of their identity that enrich them.

So, even though the plot is all over the place, they seem to already know that they can’t surprise the audience like that right now. A more flexible solution was therefore chosen with great care. character driven† And it’s pretty successful because if there’s one thing that’s remembered and celebrated in this show, it’s the characters.

Forget the extraordinary handling of Viktor’s transgender. It is organic and performed with the required naturalness and care. It was very easy to do roughly and the treatment was sufficient. If you want to normalize this kind of problem, this would be a good example of how fiction should show it.

But for this season, scenarios that are as important as or more important than the characters,† They were able to take advantage of the academy and its secrets and the hotel more than ever before. forgetfulness obsidian. Three seasons of the series have adapted the three stories in their own way. But it was this that chose to stand out the most. Steve Blackman He understood that he was building his own history and tried to establish his own existence about the hotel.

It is presented here as the field of operation for some Hargreeves lost in a universe to which they do not belong. And as a place for social outcasts and criminals, it is showcased with a lot of good work. Like the Hotel Cecil, it was originally a luxury place that had fallen into its greatest collapse.

With clear aesthetic memories of the most famous horror hotels, the most obvious being the Overlook, they manage to create a rather interesting, still and haunted atmosphere and aesthetic. One wonders how they compare the pop and colorful aesthetic typical of this series with a calmer and cooler photo of the hotel.

The script still has missteps and issues, not quite as sublime as it used to make this series. But because of the tone, it’s not something that bothers you. The audience understands that the show is not trying to create a perfect plot; Something practically impossible at this point, given the confusion of temporal paradoxes that the plot frame leads into the author’s room.† On the contrary, it does not hesitate to present surreal concepts and surprises in abundance.

This season’s directing has not lost any of the courage of the previous one. It still has a lot of heartbeat and rhythm, which raises the issue.I. They retain the aesthetic features of their predecessors (like video montage sequences or the constant internal rhythm of recordings) but with new sounds, such as paco headswhich provides some freshness.

The cast has since taken on more of their characters, which must have helped them look their best in the most dramatically compensated season. They don’t stop growing and absolutely the entire cast nails every single one of their scenes. This is totally awesome and they just keep getting better. In turn, the inclusion of new actors playing their likes also easily manages to win the love of the audience. From a Génesis Rodriguez who can be naive and smart at the same time June H. Min He said it was difficult for him to give another version of the same character.

this is the third season Umbrella Academy sounds like an open ending to a scene. But it’s also the most rounded season in every way. It may not have turned out to be the most spectacular, but it was she who was appreciated, giving more flair to the characters. A series that does not stop growing every season and makes you want to return to this crazy universe.