Rotten Tomatoes gives this series only 73% and summarises it as follows: The Umbrella Academy unfurls an imaginative yarn with furtive emotion and an exceptionally compelling ensemble, but the series’ dour sensibility often clashes with its splashy genre trappings. Clashes with its splashy genre trappings? Give me a fucking break.

It is entertainment in its purest, most binge-worthy format. It contains very clever and subversive humour, so much freaking heart, enough tension to keep you coiled up until the end and all the superhero thrills.

Some twists you see coming, just to realise, too late of course, that it was a setup for the twist you didn’t see coming.

What holds all of this masterfully together is the well-written characters. Geez, from the tragically beautiful Klaus, to the austere 68-year old Number Five caught in the body of a teenager. You even love Mom, the robot. Don’t get me started on Pogo, the chimpanzee…

It is not The Handmaid’s Tale or Sharp Objects, and for that I am thankful. Even though these series were ground-breaking and topical and just brilliant, sometimes we need a day at the beach, a holiday from Offred being brutalised and batshit crazy mothers.

Don’t get me wrong, Umbrella is not an airy or frivolous soap. Even though it has the humour, the thrills and the action, it also asks the question, who are you and where did you come from.