All in a singular day dozens of women worldwide became pregnant asexually and gave birth. One man, Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), adopted seven of these miracle babies. He raised them, found their special powers, trained them, and developed them into crime fighters. He was a very demanding and even cruel parent which caused all of them to grow up pretty dysfunctional.

I dug the concept and the super hero aspect of the show but hated the drama. And there was too much of it. Every other scene could've had a slow piano chord and rain because there was so much exposition through tortured memories. I don't expect the group to be the Brady Bunch but did they have to be that dysfunctional? They all had some problem or another, they barely got along yet they had to find a way to come together to save the world.

The drama I did like involved Mary J. Blige's character, Cha-Cha (or maybe I just like Mary J. Blige). She and her partner Hazel were time tampering correctors (my term not theirs). By any means necessary they were to make sure that whatever events of the past were supposed to occur actually occur. Oh, did I forget to mention that there's time travel in this show? There's time travel and it's instrumental. It was a welcome diversion from the sob story that was the brothers and sisters of the Umbrella Academy.

If I wasn't put off enough by the unending sagas they threw in there the naive girl to push me over the edge. You know the one: easily misled by some nice person with seemingly good intentions. Then, because she's so emotionally immature, her reaction to her being misled is not nearly proportional to the actual harm done to her.

I liked most of their abilities but there was just too much manufactured drama for me. Tone down the sourpuss moods, tone up the super hero-ness and I'm a fan.