If vested in the conclusion, the first season will not end with the closure you're looking for, but the ride is riveting and witty, featuring some really great use of sound.

The Umbrella Society reads well in its description, and delivers well beyond the short description that Netflix provides. Indeed, this show feels like a much larger production, delivering little known, but quality, actors and award winning effects.

Season 1 introduces a family of individuals adopted by the most mysterious man in the world, each with their own power. Fast forward 30 years and the family has become highly dysfunctional and brought together only by the death of their adoptive father to thwart an impending apocalypse. Standing in their way are time-traveling hitmen and their own inner daemons.

If comparisons are to be made on the subject matter, those familiar with The Watchmen comics and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are in a similar vein, mixing dysfunctional humans with exotic powers. As a show, it is similar to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, probably the most alike of any show matching tone. Both also make excellent use of music and humour without compromising its excellent and witty dialogue. Both are also noted to rely on gruesome details, disturbing graphic violence and mature subject matter punctuating episodes that are otherwise relatively free of coarse language and sexual content. This ramps up towards the concluding episodes in season 1 of the Umbrella Agency, rushing towards the climax at a pace that makes the rest of the season feel slow in comparison.

Relying heavily on its genre to garner interest, there is much more to be found than just a time travel, superhero paradox.