Umbrella academy is a decent show that try a new approach into the Super Heroes genre. Its sometimes witty, sometime absurd, it has good humor and sometimes it fell flat. The soundtrack is incredible but is missuse to the point i was wondering if Spotify has started in the background while i watched the show. But my main grip with the show it is lack of communication between characters. It is a cheap trick used by the writer to hide certain fact from a character by, per exemple, not include them in a room while important information was given. If they were there, or even heard, all the plot would have fell apart. Or when 2 mains characters with very important information FINALY talk to each other, they dont really; they will argue, they will cut each other, they will storm out of the room or even vanish before exchanging the life-saving information. It is cheap, lazy writing and allow drama and death that should be avoided in any normal situation. It is very frustrating to watch as a spectator and I never get why writer do that in the first place. Roméo and Juliette is perhaps the most famous case of that syndrome and they both died like idiots by the end.. I have no clues what are the lessons I, the audience, can draft out of this aside from : FREAKING TALK TO THE OTHER... This show is pretty much that. While it is well made, this cheap trick drove me nut the entire time. Still waiting for the season 2. I guess they cant fool me twice, can they?