The Umbrella Academy is currently streamed on Netflix. not involved) and give birth to children with special powers. Babies are adopted by an eccentric entrepreneur. But wait, this is all prelude. The current drama unfolds in the present, many years into the future, in which the children have all grown up and separated.
The said contractor died for apparently natural reasons. And it is this incident that brings together the superheroes. Death seems natural to the coroner, but one of them, Luther Hargreeves (Black Sails and Game of Thrones alum, Tom Hopper), discerns a criminal act. The others are not so interested, not because his theory is not convincing, but they just do not care.
Their adoptive father took them under his wing, but he was distant – so much so that he forgot to name them and called them by their number (for example, he called Luther Number One and so on ). It is the adoptive mother of the children who gave them their name. The kids left him because he did not care a bit about it.
As for the entrepreneur, Sir Reginald Hargreeves or The Monocle, he was quite a man. His hotel master was a chimpanzee who spoke and, quite remarkably, he knew babies and their superpowers. He might also have heard of an apocalypse that was getting ready and one of his adoptive children, The Boy / Number Five (Aidan Gallagher), saw it and lived to tell the story. # 39; history. Well, his superpower is the journey back in time. His identity is The Boy because he's literally a boy, thanks to mistakes that occurred during a trip back in time.
The first episode is slightly entertaining. There is action, mystery, a little face and even a bit of family drama – but everything goes as before.
In today's superheroes, a television show or movie must be exceptional to stand out. The Umbrella Academy, if judged by its first episode, is just above average and seems to have been missed. But it still remains good enough to make me curious about the mysteries that the episode has put forward. Was Monocle's death natural? If not, then who killed him? How did he know the children and their superpowers and why did he welcome them? The apocalypse, who will bring it? And why? Is it Umbrella Academy's job to save the world? The answer to the last question is probably yes.
The Umbrella Academy is streaming on Netflix.