The Umbrella Academy Review: Netflix's new superheroes struggling with a strange education to save the world

The world is coming to an end, time travel and superheroes who are trying to reverse the apocalypse are the flavor of the season. As viewers prepare for Marvel Avengers series : Endgame Netflix presents its new series of superheroes to save the world with The Umbrella Academy .
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Great power involves great responsibilities. It's a concept that our superheroes did not recognize in The Umbrella Academy for a very long time. Based on the Dark Horse comic series of the same name by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba, the Web series introduces us to a family of extremely powerful individuals, with the exception that they have all been adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves et al., The Monocle.

The First Season of The Umbrella Academy is a blend of the first two comics, Apocalypse Suite and of Dallas . While fans immediately noticed the difference in terms of tone, narrative arcs and still liked it, others might find it strange with regard to superhero stories. You see, The Umbrella Academy is not your ordinary superhero series, but things come back to normal at the end. It's the story of a dysfunctional family where children are subjected to tremendous physical and mental pressure allowing them to learn to control their specific abilities.

The series follows 43 children born the same day around the world with only seven of them. go to the Umbrella Academy created by The Monocle. He numbers the children according to their usage and does not prefer to call them, except their number. This always-dark character often forms a point of contention between our heroes as they reflect on their "private love" education and the personal trauma that they all had to suffer when they were children. Naturally, they behave more as an imperfect team than as brothers and sisters. The Monocle promulgates his latest plan in the hope of reuniting him after a few years of absence in an attempt to save the world from an impending apocalypse.

The huge bademblage of actors, such as Tom Hopper (Number One aka Spaceboy), David Castañeda (Number 2 aka The Kraken), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Number 3 aka The Rumor), Robert Sheehan (Number 4 aka La Seance), Aidan Gallagher (Number 5), Justin H. Min (Number 6 with Horror) and Ellen Page (Number 7 aka The White Violin) feels at home. They are all capable of taking a very different approach to empowered people. They are broken, especially the number 7 which has always been shot down and put aside because it is not special like the other six (at least that's what we need to think about). But she is "the extraordinary" batch revealed later in the series and is the culminating scene of the final episode in the final episode.

Most of his series continues to construct new mysteries but fails to answer some relevant questions when the curtains fall. It is possible that the showrunner Steve Blackman has reserved some secrets for the next season and that in the meantime, the entire volume 3 will be released on the shelves in August this year. So, there is still much to explore and the first season establishes the universe very well in this direction.

However, the series is slow, with too many silent spaces between the two. The characters' individual intrigues take a long time to settle and until the fifth episode, the designers build intrigues, which allows viewers to get acquainted with "The Umbrella Academy" and its bizarre balls. Watch for the performance of a team of outsiders who are going through a strange education and mission to prevent the end of the world.

Rating: 3/5