Summary

• Mary J. Blige and Cameron Britton shine as Cha Cha and Hazel, Blige from the music to the acting.
• Kate Walsh impresses in another role as “The Handler” with a controlling yet strange character portrayal.
• Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman shine as the evil couple Jean and Gene, despite the weaknesses of the fourth season.

The Umbrella Academy is about a dysfunctional family. A dysfunctional family with superpowers that causes many apocalypses – one per season, to be exact. The show also features many guest stars, some of whom are famous faces. These are the people we’re talking about here. In season 1, there were Mary J. Blige and Cameron Britton as assassins Cha Cha and Hazel. Starting in episode 5 of season 1, but especially in season 2, there was Kate Walsh as “The Handler,” who controlled the lives of people like Cha Cha and Hazel. And in season 4, there was David Cross as Sy Grossman, the cleaner who hired the Umbrella Academy to find his daughter Jennifer.

But the best guest stars of all are Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman as Dr. Jean and Gene Thibodeau, an amusing but disturbing couple who will do anything to achieve their goals. The only problem is that they are in season four, the final – and worst – season of the series. In the following article, we take a look at all the guest stars in The Umbrella Academy and explain why Mullally and Offerman are the best despite their worst season.

Guest stars in seasons 1 to 3

Cha Cha and Hazel

Cha Cha and Hazel are a pair of assassins for the Commissionthe agency whose goal is to preserve the timeline by removing people who alter time. Their latest target is Number Five (Aidan Gallagher), a member of the Umbrella Academy who worked as an assassin for the Commission but eventually broke his contract and fled. Cha Cha and Hazel were dispatched to destroy the threat.

Mary J. Blige and Cameron Britton are great as Cha Cha and Hazel, especially Britton as the murderer who is finally improved by loveBritton is less well known but has done great work, especially his role as Edmund Kemper in Thought Hunter is terrifying yet insightful. Blige has been known for her music for decades, but has recently turned to acting. The Umbrella Academy was her first major role after her Oscar-nominated role in Mudbound. Since then she has worked as an actress.

The Handler

The handler is a superior of the commission who assigns missions to people like Cha Cha, Hazel, and Five. In the second season, she has Five take out the board and takes over the leadership of the Commission. She finally gets her just punishment when she tries to take out the Umbrella Academy, but she still manages to cause a lot of chaos over two seasons.

Kate Walsh is best known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery in Grey’s Anatomy and its spin-off Private practicewhich makes her excellent and very different work as a handler even more impressive. Although she is not exactly a sympathetic character in The Umbrella Academy, She plays a fantastic role as a strange but controlled woman who eventually aims too high..

Guest stars in season 4

Sy Grossman

At the beginning of the fourth season, the Umbrella Academy (and everyone else) have been in their current timeline for six years – and no one has their powers. But then Sy Grossman kidnaps Viktor (Elliot Page), a member of the Umbrella Academy, and holds him captive for ransom to bring the gang back together.. He does this so he can ask her to find his missing daughter, and he happens to have a box of her things, including a bottle of Marigold. When the Umbrella Academy finds Jennifer, they discover that she is not actually Sy’s daughter, but Sy keeps showing up at key points throughout the season to make sure she and Ben get together.

David Cross is perhaps best known for his role as Tobias Fünke, the mild-mannered (and very strange) husband of Lindsay Bluth in Arrested developmentSince then, he hasn’t had many regular roles on other shows. Instead, he takes on many guest roles and is great in all of them. Sy is no exception. Cross is wonderful as a man who is not really who he claims to be, but still manages to get everyone around him to do his will, even if they are suspicious of him..

Drs. Jean and Gene Thibodeau

As great as everyone else is, Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman as Jean and Gene Thibodeau outshine all other famous guest stars who have appeared on the The Umbrella AcademyThe reason for this is simple: Jean and Gene are a married couple who finish each other’s sentences, which Mullally and Offerman understand because they are a married couple themselves.

Of course, we hope that the actors do not resemble their characters in any other way. Jean and Gene are cheerful but viciousand their evil side always wins out. In the six episodes they appear in, they kill the man who brings them artifacts from other timelines, forcibly kidnap Jennifer from the Umbrella Academy, then scare her with the giant squid she was trapped in as a child. Oh, and they get the only dance in Season 4.

Mullally and Offerman are brilliant as individuals. Mullally is best known for her work as Karen Walker in Will and Grace and Offerman is best known for his work as Ron Swanson in Parks and recreation. But they have both played many other roles and both have Emmy Awards. But as a couple they really shine. If only they had had a better season, because as things stand, their roles are ultimately not that important. Even when Jean and Gene call together all their followers in the final episode and have them guard the store where Ben and Jennifer are holed up with guns and knives, it’s an empty gesture. After all, Ben and Jennifer are going to do the purge whether those people are there or not.

So, While Mullally and Offerman’s work is brilliant, the fourth and final season is not, and that makes the difference. Unfortunately, the season is a mess and has so many plot holes it’s ridiculous. Also, fans aren’t happy that Jean and Gene get the only dance in season 4. Of course, none of this is Mullally and Offerman’s fault, but the fact that they appear in this season is a shame. Since so much went wrong in season 4, it’s hard to see what went right, including their portrayals of Jean and Gene.