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Umbrella Academy (the no-spoilers post)
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rachelmanija and I marathoned Umbrella Academy on Netflix over the last couple of days, and we absolutely loved it. It's probably one of the most utterly bonkers shows I've ever seen, but it also brings the found-family feels hard. If you want to watch it (and if you like watching unspoiled), it's probably best to watch knowing as little about it as possible. I went in knowing absolutely nothing and I feel like I got the best viewing experience that way. It's a 10-episode made-for-Netflix show that has one season so far.If you would like a little more to go on than just "watch it, it's great!" I have a brief intro + enticements under the first cut - contains minimal spoilers; most of this you'd get from the first 10 minutes of the show - and a few more-spoilery content warnings under the second. I should mention that this show contains some disturbing stuff, but none of the disturbing stuff involves sex, that I can recall (i.e. no rape/sexual abuse).
The show is about a set of seven superpowered adoptive siblings, raised in a creepy old mansion by an equally creepy (and abusive) father-figure who forged them into a fighting superhero team as kids, only to have the team fall apart and the kids scatter once they grew up. They are brought back together at the start of the series by their father's mysterious death.
The show has some of the most utterly bonkers plotting I've ever seen (it's sort of like Watchmen by way of the Coen Brothers and Monty Python), but at its core it's about grown siblings reconnecting and forging a found family out of the ashes of their miserable, abusive childhoods, and I am obviously ALL OVER that kind of thing. Also, Rachel and I were semi-joking that the show ticks off an entire h/c bingo and trope-bingo card in every episode. If you happen to connect with the show's particular brand of iddiness (which both of us did), it is a VERY iddy show.
Potentially triggery/offputting content (includes some spoilers): This show contains A LOT of physical and emotional (not sexual) child abuse in the characters' backstories, including children ostracizing an unpopular sibling, and gaslighting in a het relationship (though all of these things are presented as wrong and evil in context). A cool female character dies in what is basically a classic fridging to motivate her male love interest's revenge quest. There is also a dead gay love interest. (The way that particular storyline played out doesn't really read like "bury your gays" to me, but since there are a couple of het romances that do work out, YMMV.)
Feel free to ask me questions if you have any! I'll also put up a post for spoilery discussion.
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