This contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2.

Last week I posted about how I dislike cliffhangers prompted by the season one cliffhanger from The Umbrella Academy, a series that I had very much enjoyed and found a non-ending frustrating.

I watched the season two opener and my reaction transformed from frustration to irritation. Season 1 centered on two major plot threads, an end of the world apocalypse in seven days and the secret behind Vanya’s lack of superpowers. They resolve when her powers induced the end of the world with the moon’s destruction but all of our central characters, including Vanya, escape into the past to continue their quest to save the world from the apocalypse they failed to prevent. Okay, the story’s not over and we continue this fight, right?

Wrong.

The characters are scattered from 1960 through 1963 Dallas, with 1963 being the time of an all-out Soviet invasion and nuclear war. Five, the character who brought scattered them through time, is informed that they had to stop this nuclear war and they have just ten days to do it and he’s plopped down in Dallas with that ten-day countdown. Oh, and Vanya’s forgotten who she is and what she can do.

So, the story has not resolved in any manner the central plot from season one but has recycled the plot into a ‘new’ apocalypse with another very limited window to prevent it and no actionable information and it has reset Vanya back to her starting position.

What the fuck kind of story telling is this?

I ant complete stories, not cheats and handwaving like a bad roleplay game adventure that suddenly changed gamemasters. Finish one story before starting another and when you do start another crib something other than the plot you failed to complete.