Umbrella academy is well made but having watched it all it's basically taken a single plot element from a bunch of other shows and jumbled them together loosely. it feels a lot like the doomsday plot from heroes with the samson unit plotlines from preacher built around a bunch of superheroes who don't seem to ever use their (underwhelming) powers and it starts with the death of the overbearing father so they all get plenty of opportunity to be all brooding and mardy about everything. it quickly becomes a lets resolve our problems by discussing them repeatedly than a lets fix everything by punching it in the face like real superheroes.
Umbrella academy is well made but having watched it all it's basically taken a single plot element from a bunch of other shows and jumbled them together loosely. it feels a lot like the doomsday plot from heroes with the samson unit plotlines from preacher built around a bunch of superheroes who don't seem to ever use their (underwhelming) powers and it starts with the death of the overbearing father so they all get plenty of opportunity to be all brooding and mardy about everything. it quickly becomes a lets resolve our problems by discussing them repeatedly than a lets fix everything by punching it in the face like real superheroes.