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Derek and Chris chat all about The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Episode 4 "The Cleanse" as we're go spoiler filled detail on the new potential apocalypse.

• Created for TV by Steve Blackman
• Developed by Jeremy Slater
• Based on the comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá
• Directed by: Paco Cabezas
• Written by : Lauren Otero and Thomas Page McBee

In Reginald’s memory recovering machine the siblings learn that on October 14, 2006, in the original timeline, the Umbrella Academy (minus Five and Vanya) were sent to destroy a container in Moldova. Despite Reggie warning the team against any interaction with the container, Ben hears a tapping inside. He sees Jennifer inside and lets her out. But Reginald arrives and kills both Ben and Jennifer in front of the others. 

After regaining their memories of the incident, Reginald’s wife Abigail reveals that she was responsible for Ben and Jennifers deaths. Years ago, she created a new element, marigold. However, a second element was unknowingly created, durango, which is currently inside Jennifer. If the two interact, it would cause “The Cleanse”, which would destroy the world. 

To prevent The Cleanse, Reginald wants to kill Ben, but Viktor instead wants to remove Ben’s marigold. 

Five and Lila try to find the original timeline to prevent the original Ben’s death, but get lost in the timeline traveling subway system. 

Meanwhile, Klaus is forced to become a medium and prostitute for Quinn in order to pay off his debts. He manages to escape Quinn’s building and finds a bag of money in the grave of one of his clients. When she comes to retrieve it, Quinn and his Biker Gang also come to claim the money. But a standoff between the two groups leaves everyone but Quinn and Klaus dead. He steals the money and buries the immortal Klaus in a sealed coffin. 

Elsewhere, Ben and Jennifer have potentially apocalyptic sex in a motel, releasing an energy surge that damages their surroundings and kills the motel’s clerk.

• Number 1 - Space/Luther played by Tom Hopper
• Number 2 - Diego played by David Castañeda
• Number 3 - Rumour/Allison - Emmy Raver-Lampman
• Number 4 - Klaus Played by Robert Sheehan
• Number 5 - Five Played by Aidan Gallagher
• Number 7 - Viktor played by Elliot Page
• Ben/The Horror played by Justin H. Min
• Reginald Hargreaves played by Colm Feore
• Abigail Hargreeves played by Liisa Repo-Martell
• Lila Pitts played by Ritu Arya
• Quinn played by George Tchortov
• Dr Jean Thibodeau played by Megan Mullally
• Dr Gene Thibodeau played by Nick Offerman
• Jennifer played by Allison Brennan
• Sy Grossman played by David Cross

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Thanks for joining us for our podcast all about The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Episode 4 "The Cleanse". We'll return next time with The Umbrella Academy 405 "Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days".

Thanks so much for joining us fellow Academy Alumni and Brolly Dollies. John, Derek and Chris

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Chris and Derek are back again to chat about The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Episode 3 "The Squid and The Girl" and learn more information about The Cleanse.

• Created for TV by Steve Blackman
• Developed by Jeremy Slater
• Based on the comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá
• Directed by: Paco Cabezas
• Written by : Aeryn Michelle Williams and Elizabeth Padden.

In October 2006, fishermen caught a giant squid off the coast of the US with a young girl inside. When asked what happened, the young girl responded with "The Cleanse". 

Shortly after, Reginald built a town in Maine for the young girl, Jennifer, to live a normal life, yet stay protected. 

In the present day, Ben’s body has changed after colliding with the now grown Jennifer during her kidnapping by Doctors Jean and Gene Thibodeau. 

Klaus gets his drug dealer, Quinn to kill him but after he discovers Klaus’ immortality he kidnaps him with a plan for Klaus to pay back his debts. 

Five, Diego and Lila go to the Keepers' HQ. Five reveals to Lila that his powers now allow him to navigate between timelines via subway station, to the same place but in a different timeline. He has no control over where they travel to and when they find themselves in Five’s original apocalypse he quickly returns them to Diego. Diego finds files from the original timeline, which list Ben's cause of death as "The Jennifer Incident", a mission from the Umbrella Academy’s past that none of the family can quite remember.

Allison, Viktor, and Luther go to Hargreeves' manor, where they meet Abigail and Reginald. When Diego, Five and Lila arrive they realise that the original Reginald Hargreeves erased their memories of how Ben died, and reuniting they attempt to restore their memory. 

Meanwhile, Jean and Gene show Jennifer mementos of the original timeline, as well as the giant squid. They reveal she is the key to destroying all timelines and restoring the original one. 

On his own solo quest, Ben is told by Sy Grossman to use the wounds he got from Jennifer and listen to his body to find her. He arrives at Jean and Gene’s hideout and unleashes his inner horror to free Jennifer, unaware the Thibodeau's intentionally let them escape to carry out their plan.

• Number 1 - Space/Luther played by Tom Hopper
• Number 2 - Diego played by David Castañeda
• Number 3 - Rumour/Allison - Emmy Raver-Lampman
• Number 4 - Klaus Played by Robert Sheehan
• Number 5 - Five Played by Aidan Gallagher
• Number 7 - Viktor played by Elliot Page
• Ben/The Horror played by Justin H. Min
• Reginald Hargreaves played by Colm Feore
• Abigail Hargreeves played by Liisa Repo-Martell
• Lila Pitts played by Ritu Arya
• Dr Jean Thibodeau played by Megan Mullally
• Dr Gene Thibodeau played by Nick Offerman
• Jennifer played by Allison Brennan
• Sy Grossman played by David Cross

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Thanks for joining us for our podcast all about The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Episode 3 "The Squid and the Girl". We'll return next time with The Umbrella Academy 404 "The Cleanse".

Thanks so much for joining us fellow Academy Alumni and Brolly Dollies. John, Derek and Chris

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We are chatting about Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 4 Kugelblitz in spoiler filled detail in our latest podcast.

Episode Directed by Sylvain White

Teleplay for this episode written by Aeryn Michelle Williams

As Harlan could not control the powers he gained from Viktor in 1963, he and his mother lived a difficult life, needing to move constantly. But when Sissy died, he had a particularly violent episode. In the present, after his energy burst Harlan reconnects with Viktor, while Allison uses her powers on Sloane, the remaining Sparrow at Hotel Obsidian, to try to force her to reveal the whereabouts of the briefcase but Sloane does not know where it is.

Frustrated, she and Diego go into a bar with those types of people outside, hoping to get into a fight. Meanwhile, Luther and Viktor give Sloane back to the Sparrows as a peace offering, but at the last minute Ben demands that they hand over Harlan as well.In the ruins of the Commission, Five and Lila find its Founder, an elderly future version of Five with a missing arm and a cryptic tattoo. Before he dies he warns Five not to save the world.

Back in the Hotel Obsidian, on clean up duty, Klaus and Stan find a luxury suite called the White Buffalo and not on the Hotel inventory. As they check out the suite Stan accidentally fires a spear gun which kills Klaus. Elsewhere in the Hotel, Harlan finds the files on the Umbrella Academy's dead mothers and reveals to Viktor that when his mother died, his outburst of power inadvertently killed their mothers and caused the grandfather paradox.

Umbrella Academy

Number 1 - Space/Luther played by Tom Hopper

Number 2 - Diego played by David Castañeda

Number 3 - Rumour/Allison - Emmy Raver-Lampman

Number 4 - Klaus Played by Robert Sheehan

Number 5 - Five Played by Aidan Gallagher

Number 6 - Ben/The Horror removed from this timeline

Number 7 - Viktor played by Elliot Page

Sparrow Academy

Number 1 - Marcus played by Justin Cornwell

Number 2 - Ben/The Horror played by Justin H. Min

Number 3 - Fei played by Britne Oldford

Number 4 - Alphonso played by Jake Epstein

Number 5 - Sloane played by Genesis Rodriguez

Number 6 - Jayme played by Cazzie David

Number 7 - Christopher played by Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube

Featuring Reginald Hargreaves played by Colm Feore

Lila Pitts played by Ritu Arya

Harlan played by Callum Keith Rennie

Chet (Hotel Obsidian Manager) played by Julian Richings

Stan played by Javon 'Wanna' Walton

Umbrella Academy Creators

Created for Television by Steve Blackman

Developed by Jeremy Slater

Based on the comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

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We'll release our discussions about Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 5 "Kindest Cut" next week.

Thanks so much for joining us fellow Academy Alumni and Brolly Dollies.

John, Derek and Chris

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We are back with Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 3 Pocket Full of Lightning. This is our spoiler filled chat so make sure you've watched the episode.

Episode Directed by Cheryl Dunye

Teleplay for this episode written by Robert Askins

Number Five begins to worry about his retirement as he explains the grandfather paradox to his family, as a lovesick Luther rejoins the Umbrella siblings. On the trail of the paradox Five reluctantly teams up with Lila to solve the time paradox, realizing neither of their briefcases work. Meanwhile, Allison and Viktor negotiate with the Sparrows, where Allison falsely claims they have Marcus and the Sparrows falsely claim they have the briefcase, but Allison's increasingly reckless behavior begins to worry Viktor.

Klaus confronts Reginald about their mothers, whom Reginald confirms he did not kill, and they end up bonding with a bowl of ice cream. But Klaus also learns that the Sparrows keep Reginald medicated to keep him docile, and he teaches Reginald his former rehab therapy tricks on how to hide the pills without swallowing.

The Sparrows discover the Kugelblitz in the basement, but head to the Hotel Obsidian to confront the Umbrella academy. As the fight ensues, the Umbrella siblings are almost defeated when an unexpected intervention from Lester Pocket, unleashing a devastating burst of energy, killing Alphonso and Jayme as Luther leaps and saves Sloane from the burst.

In the aftermath of the devastating attack from Lester, Viktor recognizes him as Harlan Cooper, the son of his former partner Sissy.

Umbrella Academy

Number 1 - Space/Luther played by Tom Hopper

Number 2 - Diego played by David Castañeda

Number 3 - Rumour/Allison - Emmy Raver-Lampman

Number 4 - Klaus Played by Robert Sheehan

Number 5 - Five Played by Aidan Gallagher

Number 6 - Ben/The Horror removed from this timeline

Number 7 - Viktor played by Elliot Page

Sparrow Academy

Number 1 - Marcus played by Justin Cornwell

Number 2 - Ben/The Horror played by Justin H. Min

Number 3 - Fei played by Britne Oldford

Number 4 - Alphonso played by Jake Epstein

Number 5 - Sloane played by Genesis Rodriguez

Number 6 - Jayme played by Cazzie David

Number 7 - Christopher played by Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube

Featuring Reginald Hargreaves played by Colm Feore

Lila Pitts played by Ritu Arya

Harlan played by Callum Keith Rennie

Chet (Hotel Obsidian Manager) played by Julian Richings

Stan played by Javon 'Wanna' Walton

Umbrella Academy Creators

Created for Television by Steve Blackman

Developed by Jeremy Slater

Based on the comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

TV Podcast Industries is made possible by our supporters on Patreon. You can follow and support us here: https://www.patreon.com/tvpodcastindustries

We'll release our discussions about Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 4 "Kugelblitz" next time.

Thanks so much for joining us fellow Academy Alumni and Brolly Dollies.

John, Derek and Chris

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We continue our chat about the Hargreeves family with our Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 2 Podcast about "The Worlds Biggest Ball of Twine".

Episode Directed by Cheryl Dunye

Teleplay for this episode written by Jesse McKeown

With Marcus their Number One missing, the Sparrows take a hostage in retaliation, as Luther is kidnapped by the Sparrow siblings and held captive. While captive, Luther learns more about the Sparrows and bonds with their Number Five, Sloane.

After being released by the Sparrows, along with a complimentary tote bag, Luther drifts back up to Sloane, where he spends the night. Lila attempts to head to Berlin and leave the city, but discovers that her Commission briefcase no longer works. Trying to source a new briefcase, Lila mimics Fei's powers on the roof of the Sparrow Academy to steal the Umbrella's briefcase.

Meanwhile, Diego and Stan bond after they fight with the Sparrow Number Four, Alphonso, and Number Six, Jayme. After learning of Sissy's death in 1989, Vanya takes lessons from her previous relationship to escape her box, as she reveals to his siblings that he, Viktor, is transgender. Viktor’s siblings accept him with open arms.

Allison travels home and makes a painful discovery, finding that Claire, her daughter, does not exist in this new timeline, sending her spiraling with grief and rage. As Viktor pulls Alisson out of her despair, both head to the handoff where Marcus was meant to give them the briefcase, but he doesn’t show. Unbeknownst to them, they are stalked by Lester.

Klaus takes Five on an eye-opening road trip, to find Klaus' birth mother at an Amish community, but discovers his mother, along with all the mothers of the Umbrella siblings, died before they were ever born in this timeline, creating a grandfather paradox.

All the while, further shockwaves from the growing Kugelblitz cause more waves of objects, humans, and animals to disappear.

Umbrella Academy

Number 1 - Space/Luther played by Tom Hopper

Number 2 - Diego played by David Castañeda

Number 3 - Rumour/Allison - Emmy Raver-Lampman

Number 4 - Klaus Played by Robert Sheehan

Number 5 - Five Played by Aidan Gallagher

Number 6 - Ben/The Horror removed from this timeline

Number 7 - Viktor played by Elliot Page

Sparrow Academy

Number 1 - Marcus played by Justin Cornwell

Number 2 - Ben/The Horror played by Justin H. Min

Number 3 - Fei played by Britne Oldford

Number 4 - Alphonso played by Jake Epstein

Number 5 - Sloane played by Genesis Rodriguez

Number 6 - Jayme played by Cazzie David

Number 7 - Christopher played by Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube

Featuring Reginald Hargreaves played by Colm Feore

Lila Pitts played by Ritu Arya

Harlan played by Callum Keith Rennie

Chet (Hotel Obsidian Manager) played by Julian Richings

Stan played by Javon 'Wanna' Walton

Umbrella Academy Creators

Created for Television by Steve Blackman

Developed by Jeremy Slater

Based on the comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

TV Podcast Industries is made possible by our supporters on Patreon. You can follow and support us here: https://www.patreon.com/tvpodcastindustries

We'll release our discussions about Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 3 "Pocket Full of Lightning" next week.

Thanks so much for joining us fellow Academy Alumni and Brolly Dollies.

John, Derek and Chris

TV Podcast Industries

Fellow alumni we are back discussing Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 1 "Meet The Family". We chat all about the return of our favourite unlikely family and meet the new Sparrow Academy.

Episode Directed by Jeremy Webb

Teleplay for this episode written by Steve Blackman and Michelle Lovretta

After averting doomsday in Dallas, the Umbrella siblings return to a very different academy, now ruled by the powerful and hostile Sparrows, masters of both dance and combat, in an altered timeline.

It is revealed that after their encounter in Dallas in 1963, Sir Reginald chose not to adopt Luther, Diego, Alisson, Vanya, Klaus and Five but seven other children instead, including Ben, Marcus, Fei, Alphonso, Sloane, Jayme and Christopher (the cube), and established "The Sparrow Academy".

When both families meet for the first time at the Academy, an imaginary dance off in Diego’s mind, induced by venom from Jayme (No 6) turns into a fight, and a ball of energy forms in the basement of the Sparrow Academy. Upstairs in the ensuing fight the Umbrella siblings are overpowered until Vanya unleashes a burst of energy to defeat the Sparrows.

The Umbrella siblings flee to the Hotel Obsidian and plan their next move, but inadvertently leave the time travel briefcase at the Academy. Vanya goes to make a deal with the Sparrow Number One, Marcus, who agrees to hand back the briefcase in exchange for the Umbrella Academy siblings leaving with no more trouble. This meeting is observed by Ben and the Sparrow Number Three, Fei. Diego discovers he and Lila have a young son, Stanley, and must make up for his 12-years of absence as Lila leaves Stan with him and heads to Berlin.

Elsewhere, an older man named Lester Pocket packs his suitcase and sets out for an unknown destination. When Marcus goes to get the briefcase, he discovers the ball of energy or Kugelblitz, a time anomaly caused by the crossing timelines, and is disintegrated. After witnessing this act of power, Grace, who now works as the Sparrows' maid, begins worshiping the Kugelblitz as her god.

Umbrella Academy

Number 1 - Space/Luther played by Tom Hopper

Number 2 - Diego played by David Castañeda

Number 3 - Rumour/Allison - Emmy Raver-Lampman

Number 4 - Klaus Played by Robert Sheehan

Number 5 - Five Played by Aidan Gallagher

Number 6 - Ben/The Horror removed from this timeline

Number 7 - Viktor played by Elliot Page

Sparrow Academy

Number 1 - Marcus played by Justin Cornwell

Number 2 - Ben/The Horror played by Justin H. Min

Number 3 - Fei played by Britne Oldford

Number 4 - Alphonso played by Jake Epstein

Number 5 - Sloane played by Genesis Rodriguez

Number 6 - Jayme played by Cazzie David

Number 7 - Christopher played by Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube

Featuring Reginald Hargreaves played by Colm Feore

Lila Pitts played by Ritu Arya

Harlan played by Callum Keith Rennie

Chet (Hotel Obsidian Manager) played by Julian Richings

Stan played by Javon 'Wanna' Walton

Umbrella Academy Creators

Created for Television by Steve Blackman

Developed by Jeremy Slater

Based on the comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

TV Podcast Industries is made possible by our supporters on Patreon. You can follow and support us here: https://www.patreon.com/tvpodcastindustries

We'll release our discussions about Umbrella Academy Season 3 Episode 2 "World's Biggest Ball of Twine" later in the week.

Thanks so much for joining us fellow Academy Alumni and Brolly Dollies.

John, Derek and Chris

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