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The Umbrella Academy: Extra Ordinary (2019)
Lazy acting and the worst fight choreography I've seen in years
This episode is so convoluted, stupid and entirely phoned in that it almost seems like Tommy Wissau created this episode. The fighting in this is so horribly bad, but the attention to detail to make it so bad is what is impressive. The antagonists are wearing metal helmets that look like knock off Chuck'E'Cheese characters, so of course they make the knife throwing character throw knives that deflect off the helmet. So what does that knife throwing protagonist do??? Why he punches the bad guys exclusively in the helmet, making loud clangs that only hurt his hands. At one point a woman armed with an assault rifle is chasing one of the main characters down a staircase and they almost run into each other. Apparently she cannot shoot while they are nearly touching on the staircase as this would sadly end the life of one of our protagonists. Instead we are treated to a woman running down the stairs and almost poking the barrel of her gun into the protagonists back. She has to wait until she has reached the bottom of the stairs and summarily turned to face the direction watched the protagonist run off in. The worst part of this is that they almost immediately cut to another shot of the armed woman chasing the protagonist down another staircase only this time she fires the gun at her from the stairs while they are much further apart. SO WAIT, too close on the stairs and you can't pull a trigger but if she's far enough away then she can shoot???? Make up your mind you lazy idiots, I literally don't know how this episode got produced. The acting is so detached and horrible, the big guy in the group is constantly reading his lines like he is using cue cards, which is odd since he was great in Black Sails. There is honestly so much more to take apart in this absolutely dumbed down borefest. This was funny to watch though because man, they get so much wrong that it absolutely drops into being hilarious when you are finding scenes where they expect an audience to care about these inane hollow characters. None of them have a back story, you don't empathize with any of them because of the haphazard nature of the story telling. They never invest in any throughline that gives any kind of emotional payoff for anybody, which again, makes it funny to watch. But that's not at all what they were going for so there is no getting around how much this sucks.