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Behind The Scenes

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Season two of Umbrella Academy is a period piece. When the gang lands in 1960s Dallas, just days before the assassination of JFK, they face a whole new set of challenges. We’ll hear from writer Rob Askins about the rules of time travel, and from writer Aeryn Michelle Williams and actor Emmy Raver-Lampman about how going back in time as a modern black woman can have dangerous consequences.

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0:00.0	I heard a rumor that you watched all the new episodes of the Umbrella Academy before listening to this podcast. Otherwise, things, things, things,
0:08.0	will be all.
0:12.0	Hold on, it's going to get Nazi!
0:15.0	At the beginning of season 2 of the Umbrella Academy,
0:18.0	a vortex of blue light opens up in the sky
0:21.0	and tosses Klaus and his ghost brother Ben next to a dumpster.
0:24.8	We don't know where they are.
0:26.4	And as Ben puts it?
0:27.4	I think the question is, when are we?
0:30.8	The year is 1960, at least for Klaus and Ben. Shortly after, another flash of blue light.
0:37.0	Same spot, different year.
0:40.0	Yigo! Five! And that blue light flashes again and again and again until.
0:50.0	Loser!
0:52.0	Yego! What the hell did we do now? The Abrella Academy's time travel plan
0:58.7	experiences a small hitch while all seven members make it to the exact same spot, a back alley in Dallas,
1:05.3	they don't end up there at the same time. Instead, they find themselves spread throughout the
1:10.6	early 1960s. The problem with them arriving together was I wanted to
1:14.9	complicate their lives. This is Steve Blackman, the showrunner and executive
1:19.2	producer on Umbrella Academy. I wondered you, what would Klaus do with three years?
1:24.4	What would he do with his extra time?
1:26.9	He has no constraints of the family.
1:29.2	But he also has the benefit of knowing the future.
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