A Look Back at The Umbrella Academy - Season 2

 

We're getting season three of The Umbrella Academy soon. So it's time to review the last season.

The Umbrella Academy is a comic book web show based on the Dark Horse Comics' series of the same name. The series is produced by Dark Horse Entertainment, Borderline Entertainment, and Universal Content Productions and distributed by Netflix. The show was developed by Steve Blackman and Jeremy Slater. This season consist of ten episodes.

The story is after the events of the first season, Five and the rest of his siblings find themselves scattered across Dallas in the 1960s. Five later learns from Hazel that a nuclear doomsday is coming and not only is it somehow linked to JFK not being assassinated, but that him and his siblings have only ten days to stop it.

• Negatives

I've got nothing, so just move onto the mix section of the review.

• Mix

Now there is quite a bit of good character development through this season. We get to see what some of the members of Umbrella Academy have been up to since they got to the 60s. The mix bag is some of the character's thinking is very questionable to me. For instance, Allison is not only married but, is also but of the civil rights movement. So what's the issue? The issue stems from it felt like she was putting those aspects of her life, other than stopping the apocalypse. She should know that none of that stuff is gonna matter if it's all wiped out by a nuclear doomsday. And not just her either, there are plenty of moments like that as well. So it really felt like instead of stopping the problem at hand, some of the doomsday stuff was put to the wayside for more dramatic moments.

Then we have the pacing. It wasn't too bad, but there were a lot of times that episodes had moments that felt slower than others were the pacing was pretty good.

• Positives

Let's get into some of the positives, one of those being the action. This time around we're giving a lot of fun action sequences. Hell, the first episode opens up with a crazy action scene involving Russian soldiers and it was sweet. I also think this time around they turn violence up, which made those scenes even more brutal.

Another thing I liked is much like the first season, we're giving great bits of humor. There was a great moment where Diego and Luther didn't quite understand a foreign language, and I do believe one innocent old lady got the scare of her life. That was a great bit that got a big laugh out of me.

Even though I had issues with the writing when it came to the characters, I still gotta give the cast credit. They still do a fantastic job, I love seeing how the handle what the characters are going through, and they once again continue that great chemistry that had during the first season.

Speaking of the first season. Much like that one, we're left that a huge cliffhanger. Where the Umbrella Academy see that things aren't quite the same, and definitely make me excited for season three.

This season wasn't too bad. We've got some fun action, good humor, the cast once again being fantastic, and a very interesting cliffhanger. Although this time around I felt some of the characters properties weren't exactly on straight and the pacing could feel off sometimes. But it wasn't that big of a deal.

My final rating is Good.

Okay, that's going to do it for me. But I'm not done with Netflix just yet, cause on Thursday, Jun 23rd I'll be reviewing their newest movie, Spiderhead. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.