The Umbrella Academy (2019)

What earned the score

• Bisexual and Transgender Representation

  Vanya is identified as bisexual and, from Season Three, transgender, becoming known as Viktor. The series gives both sexual-identity and gender-identity labels a place in its ensemble.

• Gay Identity as Character Detail

  Klaus is explicitly identified as gay, making his sexual identity part of the series’ characterization without the review tying it to a larger plot conflict.

• Lesbian Relationship Reference

  A Season Three episode refers to Vanya’s lesbian relationship, adding an explicit same-sex relationship to the series’ story world.

• Effeminate Male Presentation

  Klaus wears his sister’s skirts and is described as acting stereotypically effeminate. The series incorporates gender-nonconforming presentation into a male character’s persona.

• Segregation as Racial Grievance

  In the 1960s-set episode, Allison is turned away from a Whites Only restaurant. The series brings racial exclusion into the episode as an explicit identity-politics beat.

• Women as Superpowered Combatants

  In the Season Two episode, Vanya turns a missile against a tank and Allison uses her powers to kill several men. The series places women in the traditionally male role of superpowered combatants, though gender itself is not described as the plot’s subject.

Details

Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.

Starring

Aidan GallagherElliot PageTom HopperEmmy Raver-LampmanRobert Sheehan

Genre

Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Release Date

Feb 15, 2019

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  A nude man and woman bathe together with sensitive nudity obscured by steam.

  A character purchases condoms and later has sex.

  Scantily clad woman can be briefly seen dancing.

  A male stripper tears his pants off, revealing his buttocks in a thong briefly.

  Many characters have cleavage revealing outfits.

  Brief and mild kissing.

  A man being tortured acts as if he's enjoying it and getting sexual arousal as a result.

  A man is possessed by the ghost of a woman's lover and has sex with her whilst possessed.

  A young boy has a fight with a naked woman. You can't see anything explicit because she is mostly shown from behind.

• Violence Moderate

  A woman gives birth at a swimming pool and blood can be seen in the water.

  A young boy cuts open his arm and reaches inside to remove a tracking device.

  A character is tortured and killed from electrocution to the chest and ears.

  A woman is unexpectedly shot from behind.

  Multiple fight scenes throughout that show blood spraying from gunshot wounds and stab wounds.

  A woman uses a curling iron to cauterize a cut on her arm.

  Corpses are briefly seen, sometimes with gunshot wounds or stabs/bruising.

  A man is graphically stabbed in the eye with a butter knife.

  A fight is viewed from outside a window, as it goes on, blood splatters on the window, and a character emerges covered in blood.

  A character's throat is cut and bleeds profusely.

• Profanity Mild

  f**k, s**t, cock, pr*ck, c**t, pussy, and wh**e are used alongside lesser profanity like b**ch, crap, and ass as well as homophobic slurs.

• Drugs Moderate

  Alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, LSD, pills, and nitrous gas use.

• Frightening Scenes Moderate

  Various characters are subjected to torture which may upset sensitive viewers.

  Many of the characters experience mental heath crisis either as a result of disorders or past trauma which may upset sensitive viewers.

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