If you haven't seen any of the Xmen movies or seen Watchmen then I suppose this series might seem fresh. Visually it borrows heavily from Zak Snyder's film Watchmen. Since Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen graphic novel was first published in the 1980s its influence cannot be underestimated as it introduced superheroes as being flawed and having human fallibility. This take on superheroes was largely due to 2000AD'S anti-hero approach which Umbrella Academy also uses as a basis although there's nothing but regurgitated concepts and ideas here, the characterisation is flat and uninteresting. The only thing of interest was the visuals and mise-en-scene. As others have mentioned, the pacing is slow and boring, the music is awful and at times inappropriate and it made me cringe. I think it might be good if you've not seen anything like this before but for those that have read/seen lots of this type of genre it holds nothing worth seeing.