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Stylistically, narratively-I was truly thrilled by it. I think the performances were so strong, it's so beautifully produced, and refreshingly original. I think I might just read the comics during the hiatus-because if there's any logic in the world, we'll see a second season, and more thereafter.

The season finale takes us from the last day to the end of the world and it doesn't let down one bit. Incredible drama tied up nicely with great editing and visual effects, really doing a great job at capturing their powers visually. The actors that plays the siblings all has such great chemistry, making us not doubting one second the story of all 7 siblings.

The ensemble cast is just so well picked, everyone doing a great job and making them realistic as possible, it's still a superhero show. At first I didn't know if I would enjoy it as it's very weird but funny but it keeps things fresh and original from other superhero shows. The writing are actually great, giving us a character driven story with one thing we knew, Number five's goal to stop the apocalypse and it's one hell of a ride. The soundtrack is just amazing, so many good songs that flows so well with the action sequences and just random hilarious scenes that we got.

I love time travel and super heroes and my wife tolerates watching both with me. This combines those both and adds in a very dysfunctional family with a robot mom and a talking monkey.

We both really liked this series and watched it in two nights.

My question is....

Will there be another season?

Flew through all 10 episodes over the weekend. 100% set up for Series 2 and I cant wait. Great performances all round but special mention to a really special break out performance from Aidan Gallagher who I expect we will all be seeing much more of.

Very highly recommended and hoping for a very quick turnaround on Series 2.

I would have loved to see more of Allison's ability. This show was well written and full at times but there was a lack of scenes with the main characters using their super powers. Hopefully season 2 will change that.

I wasn't impressed with the first half of the series, so so impressed with 6-9, and the last episode really pulled it together for me. I have to admit I was a little pissed at the amount of tolerance shown, considering the circumstances (cant say much more on that subject without spoilers) but maybe thats what the writers wanted, if so, they did their jobs. The special effects and writing in the 10th episode saves the entire series. I really don't care for a season 2, its basically The Watchmen Movie only differences being they are extremely screwed up young adults instead of middle aged.

After having its problems in my eyes the majority of the season it finishes on a high! What an amazing end every part was perfect! Here's to hoping season 2 goes from strength to strength

Whaaaattttttt??????? Please bring the second season right now

I'm going to review this as "Season one" even though as I write this a second season has yet to be confirmed by Netflix, though based on buzz and reviews I think it's probably likely.

Adapted from a series of comics by My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way, "The Umbrella Academy" is about a group of children with special powers who are collected to live as a family under the guidance of distant patriarch Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore). Twenty years on from their time as a superhero team, the remaining members of the family are reunited by the death of Sir Reginald and the return of long missing family member No 5 (Aiden Gallagher) who has returned from the future with a plan to divert the apocalypse.

Though it's not without its flaws I generally enjoyed this season. It reminded me of times of the recent "Lemony Snicket" series, with a deliberate stylised unrealness to the world that the characters inhabit. Fashions and technology are designed to appear timeless and also to reflect the number of characters that can travel through time. It's often funny, laugh out loud funny at times and the action scenes that occur regularly are usually well done. The music choices are really good too, drawing from a range of sources (and again from different decades to establish that "out of time" feeling).

The visual effects I thought I'd keep separate from both the negatives and the positives as some of them, such as the motion capture performance of Mr Pogo are staggeringly good for television. In fact most of the CGI work is excellent. The practical effects though, particularly the head stuck on a gorilla-ish body for Luther aren't as impressive. I don't know if they lost confidence in a different effect but this one doesn't really work at all.

The pacing though, I felt was the shows real problem. A lot of the character beats were hit a few times more than they need to be, in order to establish the characters and a couple of subplots could perhaps have been lost altogether without losing much impact. Shorn of a couple of episodes I think that it could have been tighter run. Tonally it's a bit strange too, I haven't read the comic books but I have been reading about them since watching the series. I does feel like the production backed away from some of the more outlandish aspects that they could have done.

Fortunately though, the series keeps its better episodes for the end and they are enough to maintain my interest for a second series, should one be incoming.

Predictable since episode 1. Copy of X-Men. Everyone making dumb choices left and right in order for the weak script to advance. No logical continuity. Just really bad.

I cannot understand how people on here are giving this 8-10.

Perfect ending to a perfectly scripted series! Have binged this in a week... it's that good! Strong performances from all the cast have made this so enjoyable. Every character has developed and the scripts have helped them all to fulfil their roles in the character development. Can't wait to start series 2!!!

This show is most underrated show of Netflix ist much better than stranger things

Vanya at the theater. The white violin in hand, sort of like Gandalf. The group acting like a bunch of boobs at times goes in totally unprepared. Luther, for some reason, has power over everyone, even though he's only a brick. I know this episode is manipulative. It gets us hepped up for season two. New powers are unleashed and Vanya is still with the family. They never deserved her. Even when Dad was at his worst, they could have had some compassion. Especially when they had some really bad real life issues. The final scenes of total destruction are well done. We now know a little about each characters. I see Ben is going along for the ride too. What is his status?

Let's go bowling, really! And then argue and resolve some teenage angst. The show wants to be quirky but quirky done badly - and this is bad - is just silly.

A clear example of the end justifies the means. It's pretty obvious when a show doesn't really know how to continue the natural flow of a narrative. They shoehorn inconsistent elements and actions in to achieve the outcome.

It all seemed to go wrong in episode 9 and then they seemed to continue it into episode 10.

And surely the intent of character driven shows like this is that you like and care about them. But the only characters that had any substance or depth were Klaus and Hazel. The rest would not be missed.

The best episode of the season by far, with some really cinematic shots and an unexpected ending. Though the ending was definitely a cop out.

Don't waste time watching this show. The finale was bad like real bad. It sets up a cliffhanger for the next season in the worst way possible. They make stupid decisions all along. I was told how good this series is. But it's very disappointing.

And I'm getting tired of forced dramas where peolpe try to do something, goes bad and keep trying it. Well, that sums up the last three episodes. I've alredy seen this. Kind of sad since it had a great premisea

Edit: I read the p'remise of the comics and actually this is an improvement, at least on what triggers the situations, but still. Predictable and ninesensical at certain points. Raised to three stars