The best episodes of The Umbrella Academy tend to feature the Hargreeves saying “yes and” rather than “no but.” It’s…
Though “743” is the penultimate episode of the season, in many ways it feels like the climax. It seems to wrap up…
A lot of my praise for this season of The Umbrella Academy has come with the caveat that I just have to have faith…
The Umbrella Academy isn’t particularly great at plot. For instance, “Öga For Öga” is a pointless runaround story…
Two episodes in a row where The Umbrella Academy’s characters actually sit down and have a full conversation? Be…
“Hell yeah, family meeting!” You took the words right out of my mouth, Diego. Halfway through season two someone…
“That’s the thing about the Commission, isn’t it? Some things just don’t make sense, until they do.”
“The Swedish Job” takes on a tall order. It wants to move the show’s central apocalypse story forward, deliver some…
The Commission has never been my favorite element of The Umbrella Academy. Though Cha-Cha and especially Hazel had…
The first season of The Umbrella Academy had a lot going for it: Heaps of style, an engaging cast, and some…
A few decades ago, for no discernible reason, a bunch of women all over the world suddenly gave birth despite not…