On a particular day, around the world a strange phenomena took place in which women became pregnant and delivered a baby all in one day. Of the 70 or so occurrences of this phenomena, 7 children where "acquired" by an eccentric billionaire and adopted. They discovered that they had "powers" and became the crime fighting family in the Umbrella Academy. The seventh child (Ellen Page as Juno) is ordinary and basically ostracized by the others. This season picks up with all the kids returning home (in all their adult dysfunction) to attend the funeral of their father. At which point Number Five returns from his time-traveling to tell them the world is ending in a few days and only they can stop it. What is both fun and cringeworthy in this series is that as an observer, some of the decisions that are made are so clearly going to cause exactly the effect they are intended to stop... over and over. One wonders just when these superheroes are going to figure things out. But that is the fun part too, since the family and personal dysfunction is what really makes these characters worth watching.
3 stars (out of 5)
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