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UMBRELLA ACADEMY: WEIRD IS GREAT!



   I feel like this is the first time i have made a post about a show that just got released this early. Truth be told, i missed a class trying to binge all ten episodes of the new netflix show; Doom Patrol (that was a joke), sorry Umbrella Academy.  Honestly speaking, i find it truly intriguing how rare and fascinating how two really good and similar shows like Doom Patrol and Umbrella Academy got released during the same period of time. With the Netflix marvel shows being cancelled, i think its safe to say we'll still have our dosage of realistic superheroes on the small screen.
  Based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name, Umbrella Academy tells the story of a group of kids who wan born on the same day in 1989 to mothers who weren't pregnant before that day. A rich man named Sir Reginald Hargreeves who managed to adopt seven kids out of the forty-three that were born on that day. With six of them(allegedly) having extraordinary powers, Sir Reginald decides to make them a team of crime fighting heroes through his very strict training methods that end up damaging them emotionally,psychologically and physically growing up.

  The show focuses on the kids all grown up while showing us flashbacks that tie up to their current predicaments in each episodes. The team of crime fighting kids dubbed; ''The Umbrella Academy'' by their father lacked any form of emotional connection with the man because of how cold he was, he didn't even give them names, instead, he opted to call them by their numbers; that is, from number one to seven but luckily for them their robot mother (yup i know it's weird) who gave each of them except number five actual names.
 The siblings are really interesting, each member of the umbrella academy is unique, super powers aside. Their leader Luther is a really big guy with super strength, Diego is essentially the group's Batman with incredible reflexes, fighting skills and excellent precision,Allison has a really weird power, she can control you into doing anything as long as she starts of with the phrase "i heard a rumor that" and boom! you've been hypnotized. Number 5 has the ability to travel through time and space, Ben brings out really big tentacles, Klaus can conjure up the dead and Vanya can err....err..she's ordinary.
I really enjoyed the style of this show, it has a mix of several time periods, the music in it is honestly stellar with each episode having at least one classic song that adds to the scene in which it's played.Side characters like Hazel and Cha Cha(played by the beautiful Mary J. Blige) are very entertaining that most times i found myself wanting more of them than even the main cast of characters. They are a bunch of new surprises as you progress through the season, they are unexpected deaths, interesting new possibilities that really make me hyped about season two. I think if i were to name my three favorite characters from the academy, i'd have to  pick, Klaus, Diego and Number 5 because i think they were the ones that kept the series going really well paced.
  So if you've got approximately eleven hours of free time on your hands, i advice you see this show as soon as possible because its really good. I do have to warn you that you may either really hate the finale or love it very very much so please keep that in mind and don't kill me when you're through. Also, due to some issues with google, i urge you to write your name when commenting so i know who's posting but you do not need to do that if you have a google blogger account. Thank You.

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