Netflix has tweeted out a short list of its Top 10 most popular series of 2019. Impressively settling into the top 3 is one of our favorite comic book projects: The Umbrella Academy. The show was only outdone by the hard-to-top Stranger Things season 3 and the much-hyped debut of The Witcher.
It was reported in September that season 2 of The Umbrella Academy is in production with Steve Blackman returning as showrunner. New cast members will include Rita Arya, Yusuf Gaewood and Marin Ireland.
The Umbrella Academy is the Netflix original TV series based on the Dark Horse Comics franchise of the same name by Gerard Way and Garbriel Ba.
The TV series finds the adult members of a super team / adopted family reuniting after years of estrangement due to their father's mysterious death. Drawing from tropes found in comics like X-Men, the father in this case is Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) a wealthy industrialist who adopted seven children, who were born under bizarre circumstances and each of whom has a super-human ability. Vanya (Elliot Page), Luther (Tom Hopper), Diego (David Castaneda), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Klaus (Robert Sheehan), Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) and Ben (Justin H. Min) are the children who live and train at the Umbrella Academy. They are cared for by their "mother" Grace (Jordan Claire Robbins) and the family butler Pogo (Adam Godley) an intelligent chimpanzee.
