After a long night of binge watching season one and waiting desperately for months to watch the second, The Umbrella Academy has been in the back of my mind for a while now.

If you've watched season one till the end, you know that Five takes the siblings to a different timeline in order to save them from the end of the world. This time, he and the siblings (reluctantly bringing Vanya along) jumped back to the 1960s. Separated in different timelines, they try to adapt to their new lives while waiting to find each other.

Scattered all over Texas, each characters' life in their respective timeline is shown to be like anyone else's. Yes, they suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but they adapt to this new obstacle. After casually walking into a "whites only" diner, Allison finds shelter in a women's beauty parlour where she gets "heavily involved in politics". Elsewhere, Klaus starts a gigantic cult that according to him is "too clingy", while Diego is locked in a mental institution with a woman who is more than just crazy. Luther, on the other hand, gets comfortable in his 60s life before he finds Vanya living on a farm with a unique family of her own.

I think this season of the show was tailored to fit each character into some part of America's history. Cults were at a rise in the 1960s as the counterculture movement fueled people's freedom of expression. The audience sees Allison working her way through pre-existing racism and becoming part of the civil rights movement. Diego is also seen desperately trying to prevent President Kennedy's death, which puts him in a psychiatric facility being diagnosed with something even viewers felt he had: a hero complex.

One thing that was brilliantly written was seeing a more humane side of Reginald Hargreeves. He is seen at a bar with Five, bonding like a real father and giving him a piece of advice that changes everything in the finale. Speaking of the finale, the siblings also realise that someone they never knew about is actually one of them. I'm curious to know if anyone else saw it coming, because I didn't.

To be honest, I respect how the season finale adapted a beginning-to-end structure starting the episode with a throwback to Ben's funeral. However, the final episode seemed very different from the rest, almost like it was meant to be its own thing. And although it does have intriguing incidents that wrap up this season quite well, there are many scenes that made me cringe. That along with the plot twists that just seemed a little too twisted made me realise that a well written foreseeable development works much better than a mediocre, unpredictable one.

Even with that, The Umbrella Academy is one of the most binge-worthy shows on Netflix right now. And because there are still several unanswered questions, I will eagerly wait for another season of this magnificent show. For now, I leave you with a quote from Dr. Hargreeves that is relevant now more than ever: "Even if you know everything there is to know about right now, you could never predict what will happen next."

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