Ok - it's not awful, but it's not great. Misfits (first 3 series at least), did this idea much better nearly 20 years ago.

It's an average story somehow stretched to 10 hours where 4 to 5 would've done - we're used to that after the Netflix Marvel shows.

My biggest issue was just how much the production decides to take you out of the moment to do something they hope will be considered different, or artistic or award worthy (god knows what they were going for to be honest).

This is never more clear than in the first episode - the soundtrack to this show is great, but every time you hear a song kick in, you know you are in for a set piece. In episode 1, we get Tiffany's "I think we're alone now" - it's a nice couple of minutes, looks pretty - but totally takes you out of the show and makes you wonder if you may have accidentally flicked over to a well shot and directed version of MTV.

I need Netflix shows to tell me the story in the time it takes to tell and no more - Unbrella Academy seems to have found new stylistic ways to pad out the episodes compared to the Marvel shows, but it's still padding.