The Umbrella Academy: A Review
The newest installment in Netflix’s endless supply of original tv shows and movies is The Umbrella Academy. Based off of a comic book written by Gerard Way (former frontman for My Chemical Romance), the show takes place in present day and is set in an unspecified city and centers around a highly dysfunctional adopted family of seven. Each sibling has an unusual power, except one. The story begins with the death of their father, who they all loathed. He took them in at a young age and trained them to fight crime. The following are the seven children and their powers: One (Luther): Strength. Two (Diego): Extreme accuracy with projectiles (especially knives). Three (Alison): Mind control. Four (Klaus): Can speak to the dead. Five (no other name): Power to jump through time. Six (Ben): possesses monsters from other dimensions under his skin (often seen with tentacles. Seven (Vanya): power unknown…