- Title: The Umbrella Academy – Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days
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While offering some interesting aspects, “Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days” turns out to be an odd choice for the penultimate episode of the series. Had there been more room to play with the looming finale spending a full episode on Five (Aidan Gallagher) and Lila (Ritu Arya) getting lost in subway to alternate realities or having Luther (Tom Hopper) and Diego (David Castañeda) waste their time with the CIA would certainly be worth exploring. However, that means everything else is put on hold leaving only a single episode to deal with Ben (Justin H. Min) and Jennifer’s (Victoria Sawal) badly-rendered CGI merging, the explanation for motives and events, and the final mission of the Umbrella Academy.
Highlights of the episode include Luther and Diego fighting their way out of the CIA and the various moments between Five and Lila including the montage covering their several years apart from the rest of the family. Their return, years to them but only hours to everyone else, will lead to confrontations and recriminations which the series leaves no time to delve into. We also get the resolution to the Klaus (Robert Sheehan) storyline and the reveal (but not reasoning) of Abigail being behind events and killing Gene (Nick Offerman).
