WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the entire first season ofThe Umbrella Academy.
Read at your own risk!
Well, that happened.
Credit: Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix
Due to Hargreeves rigorous standards, the children all grew up disaffected and alienated from each other.
They did not, however, manage to actually stop the aforementioned apocalypse.
Check it out below.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I want to start right at the very end.
As the last episode ends, it becomes apparent that they didnotstop the apocalypse.
The last shot is literally of the Earth being engulfed by explosions.
How did you guys decide to play it that way?STEVE BLACKMAN:Yeah, it ends horribly!
What I really wanted to do was find a really good cliffhanger.
It has to be trickier than that.
If we get a second season, well see how theyre gonna end up.
These guys arent dead, but we dont know what happens.
Their wonderfully dysfunctional family couldnt quite win the day.
I thought that was very telling for the season.
I like how the White Violin story ended up.
but in a format unique to the show.
How did you conceive her journey?I talked about it early on with Ellen.
We decided we wanted to play it from start to finish.
All the way to the endgame, where shes overtaken by the abilities she didnt even know she had.
The ultimate revelation about Vanya is that she wasnt powerless at all, she was the exact opposite.
Theres much more to this character that well see if we get more seasons.
She lived believing she wasnt special, and thats very damaging.
Getting to open up like this overwhelmed her in the end.
The endings different, but similar ideas are in there so that real fans wont feel cheated.
The guys won an Emmy.
He wrote that from scratch, the whole Apocalypse Suite.
All that music youre hearing is Jeff Russos score.
Its a 90-person orchestra, its all original music, and its all fit to what were doing.
Thats something I want people to know, because thats an amazing thing Jeff Russo did.
Its a true Apocalypse Suite.
Can you talk about conceiving this character and his role?First of all, John Magaro is great.
I wanted to get away from the conductor, because it felt like too much of a trope.
It was such a villainous character, almost with a twirling mustache.
So the idea was to give her a love interest.
He manipulates her with every single beat, but you could get it, given who Vanya is.
But he almost makes it with her!
Once shes in that bathtub, hes gotten her to comply and shell do whatever he says.
That was so much fun to do.
But its too late.
Vanya has her own autonomy now, her own agency now, and shes moving forward even without him.
The mad scientist is gone now, but the monsters there.
The Day That Was and The Day That Wasnt are the two episodes.
I thought it was a really beautiful way to show how each of our actions has consequences.
For example, Luther and Allison will never know that kiss happened.
It was not to torture the audience.
And that changes all those moments they had together.
They might be my favorite episodes.
They were hard to write and break, but Im really proud of those two episodes.
[Laughs] If I didnt colorize his shirt, he would be inRoma, wouldnt he?
Thats a good point.
If I didnt do that and he ran around youd be like, hes inRoma!
My favorite scene in the whole show I think is where Hargreeves gives Klaus a shave.
By the way, I didnt say it was heaven!
So it may or may not be heaven where that happened.
Plus the other siblings actually get to see his presence manifest.
Its why they broke up in the first place, because his death broke him apart.
Now if only they only could achieve their final job of saving the world!
