By Michelle Willson
Feature/Entertainment Editor
“The Umbrella Academy” was released on Netflix Feb. 15 of this year. Netflix released one season of 10 encaptivating episodes that will leave you speechless and wanting more.
The Netflix original series starts because of a rare phonomon that occurred October 1989. 45 women around the world spontaneously gave birth.
Though they had not been pregnant the day before.
Billionaire industrialist, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, went around and adopted seven of these children because they had special powers. He created The Umbrella Academy to prepare his new children to save the world.
The story follows the dysfunctional family of seven superheroes who are reunited after the death of their father. They are forced to uncover their father’s killer while trying to stop the impending apocalypse.
The story is shown both in real time and through flashbacks of the family’s life growing up. I love that they decided to utilize this form of storytelling because, in showing the story both ways, you get to see the motivation behind the characters actions.
The Hargreeves children: Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Number 5, Ben and Vanya. As they uncover the Mysteries and try to change the course of time.
The group has clashing personalities and, like siblings, they do not always get along.
The siblings struggle to figure out whose plan to follow, but they know they have to combine their powers and fight this battle together.
The series had me on the edge of my seat. Not knowing what was coming next. So much that the episodes are 60 minutes long and my friends and I, still ended up watching eight of the 10 episodes in one sitting. There is already talk of a second season, but no release date has been set.
The series is based on a comic series by Gerard Way, former lead singer of “My Chymical Romance,” and was illustrated by Gabriel Bá.
I give this series a five out of five stars because it exceeded any and all expectations I had. It is not your average superhero story.