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Umbrella Academy

This story looks like one of those bedtime stories our parents used to tell us. Superhero children, with awesome powers, yet so normal, requiring love and affection, like any regular child. Moral lessons and consequences that befall them when they do something wrong… Well, this isn’t exactly the premise of the show, but at first sight, it’s what it most reminded me of. You have this group of individuals, linked, connected as brothers, not by blood but by the craziness of their adoptive father instead. He took the children under his care and turned his house into some sort of boarding school for special kids. Give it a couple of years and you end up with a very dysfunctional family.  Despite the huge amount of fantasy, we can easily create empathy with the characters. They’re all very interesting and very different from one another, which makes us pay attention to all of their stories and they’re all pretty captivating. Pogo is a very curious character from whic