User Reviews

The other shoe finally drops and the show makes a good attempt to clarify and add context. Though this seasons subplots are totally off the rails random.

I have no idea why people are complaining about Vanya/Viktor, who cares?

The terrible thing in this episode was them not understanding how different timelines work (really, you're gonna go look for your child in a place where even if you exist there are 0 chances you'll be with the same man and have the same child) plus the whole fight scene in the pharmacy. Some punches and throwing of things affected those who threw them, other times they didn't. Why? How? What's the logic? It's getting crazy and not in a good way.

I am so impressed by how they did right for Elliot Page. That transition was respectful and truly helped represent Elliot as Viktor properly without making a deal of it. Netflix and the script writers for the show are doing it sooo right. I cannot express how happy I am that this show is what it is.

I noticed that in almost every episode there is one camera that has a Vignette going on. At first it was fine but starts to get annoying. Especially in daylight scenes where there shouldn't be a vignette.

It's like they messed up lenses. Am I the only one seeing this?

Why is everyone's review about one specific thing? 80% of the reviews are all biased and focused on about 5 mins of screenplay involving "Viktor". You all know the episode was 55+ mins right? Other things happened. LOL some people just confuse me sometimes.

ANYWAYS, the dead mothers and grandfather paradox storylines were sooo interesting and amazing. Diego's son is awesome. This show is still as great as it was Season 1.

Let's not be biased and distracted or obsessed with such a small part of the show. The show is great regardless of how you feel about that one part. Deep down you all know it.

I don't normally write reviews about single episodes, only about the full series, but I just have to respond to all the transphobic reviews.

When I heard that Elliot would be playing Viktor, I was so excited! I was happy that he doesn't have to play something he's not comfortable with. I was just scared for how they would include this in the story. I have to agree that they didn't do a very good job, but it was definitely not horrible! At first I just thought that it was kinda random because it all happened so sudden and it seemed like no one really cared, but when I thought about it more I didn't think it was so bad. I actually like how they didn't make it too big of a deal, because that's not what the series is about. It was still a cute moment and I love how they didn't just stop talking about it in the next episodes.

For this part I agree, Viktor's transition wasn't very well included in the story, but that is absolutely no reason for transphobia! This has nothing to do with being 'woke', it's just because of the writing. It doesn't really make a difference in the story, because Vanya has never been very girly anyway. It doesn't effect the season at all!

It's super exciting how everything starts to go wrong, five starts to figure out what is going on, and poor guy, he can't never have a day off. I like the Sloane-Luther thing, it adds drama to the plot. I think they handled well Vanya/Viktor change.

When you want to keep watching, when you need to watch the next episode asap, then you can say the episode was great.

I really don't get why people are making such a big deal about this episode with Vanya transforming into Viktor. We all knew she became a he long before this season aired, so what did you expect? For him to play a girl the rest of the season?? Or for Vanya to just be Viktor from episode 1 and just not mentioning the transition at all?? Or for Elliot to be written out of the series just because he decided to change and some random snowflakes can't deal with that?? I mean with the obvious wig (terribly made btw) and the voice and facial features already being very boyish, him having to play a girl in the first episode personally gave me cringy feelings. I think they dealt with it well though. They dealt with the transition and pointed it out, without giving it too much attention for it to take away from the rest of the story. This has nothing to do with 'woke messaging', the fact that people perceive it that way says more about them than about the series writers really. The writers just had to deal with a change that needed to be dealt with to keep Elloit in this series. If that's really such an issue for you, then why are you still watching? You knew it was about to happen! 🤷‍♀️ My reason for giving this episode 'only' a 7 is because I felt most of it wasn't really going anywhere. The storylines felt a little random. As if the writers created something (a new 'supergroup') and now were at a point where they didn't really know where to go next with their storytelling.

I binged the entirety of season 3 and it was so bad. For me, it's not a political thing at all. What happened to the show's good writers? There were only a handful of funny jokes, and there were no cool choreographed scenes like in previous seasons. The story idea had potential, but the execution of it was just a mess. I had to press fast-forward for most of season 3 because there was so much unnecessary, cringey dialogue. After the uncomfortable Luther/Allison drama in season 1, both characters became very likable in season 2. But for some reason, they resurrected annoying, whiney, dramatic Allison again. There were no consequences for bad behavior: "Oh you killed so-n-so?" or "Oh you sexually assaulted me? Sure, I'm mad but we'll just move past that like it never happened." The ending also left more questions than answers. It killed my desire to see a season 4.

There's no explanation why that ball of fire sends ripples out that kill animals. That's one thing. The rest involves Klaus going to find his birth mother--out of the blue. We have Vanya transitioning. Why does it matter. It's a distraction. Anyway, Luther spending all that time with the Sparrows seems superfluous. Basically, though, it's slow moving and doesn't really accelerate the plot much. Is there another goal here other than to continue to survive in a world where you've been replaced. Allison's daughter has disappeared, probably the result of some time glitch in their transfwreing from 1963. Anyway, I wanted this to be over.

Isn't this world filled with enough ignorance, selfishness and just plain evil?! These reviews are supposed to be about The Umbrella Academy. Let's keep our personal opinions at the door. Or don't post your reviews. It's as simple as that.

After good start, this feels like a filler more than anything.

Considering the most memorable scenes were with Luther and Sloane, I find it to be odd considering my taste where I could just take what every Number Five did and put it on a pedestal.

And I don't get the renaming Vanya x Victor. I thought Vanya is actually man's name. So, why change it. It's just strange.

I like how all the negative reviews about the person on the show that needs psychiatric help have been removed. People say why us it a big deal then freak out and silence anyone who objects to the harm done to her in real life. It's sickening.

The show has always had poor writing but it seems to have become even worse aside from the controversy. It's just really not a very good show. It always trys to be edgy and have dark humor but the continuity is awful and it only attacks an audience that are fully invested, no questions asked. You can see how the ratings weren't great to start off with, went up when people became invested while binging them started to decline with the beginning of season 3. It just seems there is very little good entertainment out there these days.