'The Umbrella Academy' Season 1 Recap: Everything that happened on the thrilling show leading up to Season 2

'The Umbrella Academy' Season 1 Recap: Everything that happened on the thrilling show leading up to Season 2
Ellen Page (IMDb)

Netflix's popular superhero dramedy 'The Umbrella Academy' is all set to release Season 2 but are you all read up on Season 1? Don't worry, in case you don't remember everything that happened in the show's thrilling first season, we've got you covered with this recap.

Our story begins in 1989 when 43 women around the world simultaneously give birth, despite showing no signs of pregnancy prior to each birth. Eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore) attempts to collect as many of these infants as he can. He finds and adopts seven of them and raises them as part of his own superhero team, The Umbrella Academy.

ADVERTISEMENT

Unfortunately, one of them, Ben Hargreeves / Number Six / The Horror (Justin H Min), dies and that combined with years of ill-treatment causes the Academy to disband. Cut to the present day when Reginald Hargreeves dies under mysterious circumstances, causing his estranged children to gather at the family home for the funeral.

To the surprise of everyone present, Number Five (Aidan Gallagher), one of the siblings who had disappeared into the future years earlier, returns with a warning that the apocalypse was coming. Unfortunately, the Hargreeves siblings aren't the tight-knit team they used to be and tensions quickly arise. Vanya Hargreeves / Number Seven (Ellen Page), who is a violinist and the only one in the family without powers, meets a man named Leonard Peabody (John Magaro) and slowly falls for him.