On The Umbrella Academy

[danieldwilliam]

 

Finished watching the Umbrella Academy.

Very much enjoyed it and looking forward to Season Two. I enjoyed the way the familial  dysfunction of the Academy and individual issues really got in the way of them responding to the main threat. My guess is that they are going to have to loop around their family history a number of times in order to heal their family and therefore either solve or not trigger the main problem.

Well acted. Nicely character driven - every character in the story has their own  motivations and their own way of interpreting or mis-interpreting the information they have.

I wonder if Vanya is called Vanya as an allusion to Checkov and his gun.

I can't helping thinking that if Pogo had just sat everyone down in about episode 4 thigns would have turned out better.

It's very tropic, which I suppose gives the opportunity for genre savvy guessing but I think I'm content to watch it play out.

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

They did work incredibly well. You could feel the familial bond, you could feel it being strained by the unusual circumstances of the family and the unusualness of the individuals. You could also feel that the relationships were not entirely collegiate or free from disharmony and were struggling under the pressure of what was going on.