S1E1

We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals

The Umbrella Academy · 2019-02-15 · 60 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 19 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Years after they rose to fame as young crime-fighting superheroes, the estranged Hargreeves siblings come together to mark their father's death.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 19 comments — 9 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit20 read

“What a first episode. Here are my thoughts I love that the tone of the show matches the comicbook. It’s dark and foreboding. The mansion looks exactly like the comic. I also love how the characters were introduced and that they broke it down for people who weren’t familiar with the comic.”
daenerysdragonfire▲ 46about 0–15% inread it ↗
“the acting was a bit wooden to start”
rassumfrassum▲ 36about 0–15% inread it ↗
“The introduction montage of the characters was a bit jarring for me”
rassumfrassum▲ 36about 0–15% inread it ↗
“Pretty damn good pilot”

who made it

directed: Peter Hoar

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Justin H. Min as Ben Hargreeves / Number Six
Sheila McCarthy as Agnes
Jordan Claire Robbins as Grace
Sean Sullivan as Middle Aged 5
PPaskal Vaklev as Teenage Boy
Anna Nadtotchii as Teenage Girl
Janet Monid as Instructor

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