The Umbrella Academy is among Netflix's biggest hits of the year, offering a diabolical take on one of television's most popular new genres: the superhero team-up show made up of mostly young-ish reluctant superheroes who have to use their powers to stop some sort of apocalypse. (It's a real genre!) Based on the graphic novel series by Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy follows seven orphans who were adopted by an eccentric billionaire to form a superhero team, only to separate for years and learn that their adoptive father has passed away and an apocalypse is imminent.
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