Review: The Umbrella Academy

A week or two back, I saw advertisements for Netflix’s new series, The Umbrella Academy.

For anyone unfamiliar, the premise is that on a single day, all over the world, 43 women gave birth. In and of itself, this isn’t odd. What was odd was that none of them had been pregnant when they got up that morning.

An eccentric billionaire decides to adopt as many of them as he can and, oh yeah, they all have superpowers.

Think “dysfunctional Incredibles meets dysfunctional Fantastic Four.”

The show went live yesterday, I watched it yesterday, and now I’m ready to share a few thoughts on the show.

SyFy Going Back To Focusing On Science Fiction

I got up this morning, and after dealing with a number of comments on my last post, I saw something pretty interesting. It seems SyFy has decided to reboot the network and focus on science fiction again like it did in the old days.