It’s time to accept that superheroes aren’t having a moment. They are the moment. Super-powered humans with extraordinary abilities are so common in 2019 that there isn’t a watchable medium of entertainment that doesn’t boast dozens of them at any given time; with The Umbrella Academy, Netflix is doing its part to deconstruct that dominance, to delightful results.
The Umbrella Academy, based on the comics by former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá, is about a family of superpowered siblings that have long since given up their heroic mantles and drifted apart in adulthood. When their adopted father Reginald Hargreeves dies, they convene in their childhood home for his funeral and face the glaring fact that their upbringing was more than unusual, it was abusive, and none of them have ever fully healed from Hargreeves’ emotional neglect. Read more…
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