- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 15, 2019
Critic Reviews
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The Umbrella Academy is an impressionistic version of what a TV show should look like, all anthropomorphic monkeys in bike gangs and angry Amish mobs (both of which have little bearing on the narrative). But the characters are so charming and likeable, the aesthetic so beguiling, that it’s almost easy to forget that you have no idea what’s going on. Or at least no longer care.
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The show descends from its second-season cliffhanger into an ever-more-convoluted world of shifting timelines, battling super-teams and existential dangers, presented with plenty of goofy humor and irreverence but as the strange new elements pile up, increasingly aimed at what feels like a hardy band of loyalists with the patience to keep pace.
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For a show featuring an openly trans hero, a drunk who communicates with the dead, a time-traveling senior citizen in the body of a 15-year-old, a half-man/half-ape with a heart of gold, and various other colorful characters, this is a show scared to really break new ground and relies on the illusion of change.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 51
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Mixed: 6 out of 51
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Negative: 22 out of 51
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Jun 28, 2022They have clearly run out of ideas, out politics first, have backwards character development
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Jun 22, 2022
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Jun 29, 2022