The Umbrella Academy
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Few TV shows have cleared the deck as thoroughly asUmbrella Academydid atthe end of its first season.
In rapid succession, each member of the Umbrella Academy is dumped into an alleyway in Dallas.
In this time line, the Soviet Union has apparently attacked Dallas.
At leastUmbrella Academyseems to have a sense of ironic self-awareness that its repeating itself.
if youre not aware, on some level, that youre self-cannibalizing.
Klaus, with ghostly brother Ben in tow, is strutting around making enemies at dive bars.
Diego has been committed to an asylum and befriended a fellow patient named Lila (Ritu Arya).
Meanwhile, Allison has somehow recovered her voice.
And Klaus will surely dosomethingto alienate and annoy the whole family again.
Whats missing here is growth.
I supposeUmbrella Academywill have the rest of season two to tell us.
Then again, time travel, so who knows?
Just before he died, Hazel slipped something into Fives coat pocket.
Its not like Five to miss a step, so I assume hell find it before long.
Umbrella Academyhasnt lost its taste for brutally overplayed needle drops.
Hazels If you want to live, come with me is a minor inversion of a line from theTerminatorfranchise.
Diegos plan to go back and kill Hitler after saving JFK.
suresoundslike a pitch forUmbrella Academy season three.
There once was a young buck from Dallas, who sported a miniature phallus.
Now accepting any and all submissions for an ending to Klauss limerick.
