for quite some time now comic books have dominated movies but network television
simply couldn't compete they tried but it was pretty lame
there were a few glimmers to be fair but again they just couldn't compete with
the budgets of major motion pictures but then along comes streaming services
particularly with netflix leading the charge with a
seemingly bottomless pit of money and they have
what what it takes to bring comic books to life
on the small screen for what actually end up being
eight to ten hour movies and right now it's a great time
to be a comic book fan in the television space
i don't know how many people are actually watching these shows and i am
curious why do you think people love comic book
movies so much but it's been harder to get them to
watch the comic book television shows because harlequin and doom patrol
maybe it's the paywall situation umbrella academy has been quite popular
i think it's maybe the most popular actually come to think of it if the
comic book television shows of late uh but of course the boys is right
behind it with its season two uh debuting um about a month after the
umbrella academy season two uh and so far when it comes to season
twos we're three for three and i think the
boys will probably deliver as well but nine out of the ten episodes of
umbrella academy season two are perfect like a dream you hope will
never end i said that actually about the incredibles 2
speaking of twos uh i was like when i was watching and i knew it couldn't last
forever and i was like i don't want it to end
and i felt the same way watching the umbrella academy but of course it's a
much longer piece of entertainment so it's got that going for it but yeah
i'd say maybe around episode i don't know
six or seven i was like yeah i'm getting up there this show's almost over but i
wish it would never end it's so good so much story so
much story all the main characters get rich story lines and there is
tons of action uh from visual effects of you know using their powers to just
you know regular action with you know uh cool
choreography and thrilling chases i got a lot of
flippy kicks this season which i appreciated
but i have to say in episode 10 i was a little disappointed
that the show to me jumps the shark a bit which of course we'll discuss in the
spoiler review and speaking of spoilers in season two
there are so many twists like wow i can see why
netflix hasn't shown very much as of my filming
this review there's only been one trailer which was
not very revealing but as season two as soon as it started
as soon as it began and began to unfold i was like oh
there are a lot of surprises here don't worry this is a spoiler-free
review and i would be careful out there on social media because discovering the
twists in story are a real treat especially
with how many of them there are and how fast they come and build
up upon each other so i was having such a good time with that
i don't want to ruin that experience for you and thankfully despite faltering in
episode 10 it really faltered in my opinion i was
like i do not like this at all but the show does manage i feel to
recover at the very last minute with a strong tease for season three
very strong i was like okay i forgive you umbrella
academy i'm back in i i will say that umbrella
academy is becoming quite x-men i mean that comparison could
be easily made for the first season but oh it's on especially with the 1963
setting which of course is when the x-men
you know around that time period debuted in the comics and there's an opening
sequence i couldn't believe this opening sequence
which feels not just ripped from the x-men comics but also has movie level
vfx when i watched it i was like oh my god is the whole season gonna be like
this it's not but i don't care i liked what i
got the vfx do take a bit of a break until
the final few episodes where they come back up but never to the degree of the
opening that was a very it's a very strong
opening i can't wait for you to see it even if you don't watch umbrella academy
you should watch the first 10-15 minutes of season two
and then i bet you keep watching but anyway the story again is so rich
the character is so entertaining the acting so good
you don't even notice that there's not as much vfx
you're so emotionally invested umbrella academy also continues to be a good
mystery several mysteries in fact as i said
there are a lot of twists and reveals that build on each other
and so that also keeps things interesting you're like how much more
can you jam pack into this thing and they're like oh just you wait and i'm
like you know that old um audio commercial
where the guy's just being blown away by the screen that's how i felt watching
this season and the back to the future time
travel aspects are also a treat visiting a recent past where you
know what happens in the future you know sometimes
you know it's something so far away that it's not going to impact the people of
the past that you're visiting here you're like
oh you know you're probably going to live to see it which will i think play
into season three which is interesting and then also you run into younger
versions of people that you knew in the present
all of that's a real treat very back to the future but it doesn't seem like a
ripoff it seems here like its own thing i liked
that quite a bit they did more with it than i ever
imagined they would and this time no characters get
shortened on screen time or development and i know that will make some of you
very happy one of you in particular tweeted me and
said what about alice and grace i love allison so much she had nothing to do
the first season is she taken care of this season and i'm
happy to report that she is because yes i agree in season one
emmy raver lampman's allison and david castaneda's
diego weren't given much to do and that really
has changed here they are given very compelling storylines diego in
particular really steps up this season to go from
being my least favorite character in season one
to now actually one of my favorites i know i can't believe it myself
it was great vanya continues to benefit from having the absolute coolest
power set it's not only very powerful but it looks cool as i
i'm a big fan of telekinesis as you know her power actually isn't telekinesis but
it's close enough so i'm like that's the power set i would want it's fantastic
and to put all that power in a sharp tiny package like ellen page
is very intriguing and continues to be she's even more el she's
this is the most alan pagey she's ever been and on that note
i do think that season two blurs the line
between vanya the character and ellen page the actress you'll see what i'm
talking about to the point that it sometimes took me
out of the show while i was watching and i was like
is that vanya or ellen page and they're like it's both
but i have to say that her storyline was so well done so moving so well acted
that i i'm cool with it anyway even though again i think she's kind of more
playing ellen page with vanya's powers and they lost the whole you know violin
thing and the in the white outfit that she wore a lot
of stuff from season one with vania is is gone so i guess that also contributed
there's kind of a reason for it as you'll see
but that kind of contributed to my feeling of disjointedness for the
character from season one to season two still loved her though that power set
you can't top it tom tom hoppers uh luther actually i
think has the least to do this season but i think his character might have hit
a wall in terms of development i'm not sure where else to take him it's going
to be a real struggle for the writers uh and i think
he's in danger of being defined only by his pining for alison which i
think is a cool part of his story but that can't be all that he's about
they've also kind of made a running joke about how dummy is and i don't think he
was that dumb in season one so i don't know why
that's continuing by the way british hopper's american accent
is at times exactly like henry cavill who's also british
his american accent i'm like did you have the same american accent teacher
it's crazy like it's tom hopper at some point seems very much like he's
doing a henry cavill impression and then of course the two biggest stars of the
show continue to be aiding gallagher's five
and robert sheehan's class every single moment that they're on screen is an
absolute delight i could not get enough of them
and i am given so we're given so much of them this season and i'm still like
i want more they're just they're just absolutely amazing characters who are so
well written and just so perfectly performed i adore
them both and i was very happy this season justin
h min's ben well we'll talk about him in the spoiler
review and while i can't reveal the characters that they're playing very
closely guarded secrets that so far have been closely guarded successfully
so i'm not going to ruin it but i will say that the three new additions to the
season are superb uh you know usually you're
like get out of here you're taking up screen time from this very large cast
already but instead i was like i love all you
guys uh yousef gatewood wow marin ireland
so happy to see her again i'm a big worker for a fan on sneaky pete even
though i stopped watching sneaky pete it got annoying
the last time i watched it was some had an annoying
plot development but i liked maron ireland in the first two seasons that i
saw and ritu arya arya in particular
is a huge find i like her character and her work on this show is an actress
almost as much as i like five and klaus and you know
what a huge statement that is she's phenomenal and to have an
actress of indian descent i believe she's british indian
but to have her in a role of this size and caliber
is a very big deal and she knocks it out of the park
i'm a huge reader arya fan after just watching this show i'm like
she's something special again at the level of gallagher and sheehan
very very talented also since he was in the trailer i can comment on the fact
that colm fiore sir reginald hargreaves is back as well
and becomes a much more complex and interesting character he was kind of
cardboard cutouty in season one uh as for the big villain of season two
ah that would be telling i can't give it away it's
i love it though very interesting we'll discuss it in depth in the spoiler
review uh the swedes who are also kind of like a henchman
this season uh they're in the trailer so we can talk about them just a little bit
i just want to say they're a visual treat and by the way i don't think at
all swedish or at all related but you know
what the absurdity of them and how well they were done
really made them seem very cohen brothersy which i thought was great i
liked them actually quite a bit the umbrella academy plays like a 10
hour movie really a 10 hour movie it's not at all
episodic i feel like it's made to be watched straight through and i tried
i couldn't you know i i started it in the early evening so i watched six hours
i stayed up very late eventually i was
like i need to sleep i need to stretch my legs but i watch i went as far as i
could i watched six hours six episodes i was in umbrella academy comic book
heaven and then i watch the final four episodes also in a single day but if you
start early enough you won't be able to stop
you'll go straight through it and i think you're in for a really wonderful
ride although i am curious how you will feel
about episode 10 and if you agree it jumps the shark just a little bit so
that's my review of my spoiler free review of the umbrella academy
season two stay tuned when the show drops on july 31st
for not just my spoiler review but my predictions for season three we have a
lot to talk about in both counts i can't wait i can't wait
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