SERIES PREMIERE: It’s been almost two decades since the first X-Men movie reignited the mutants-with-superpowers comic-book movie trend – and it’s taken that long for me to reach saturation levels. The Umbrella Academy, based on a graphic novel, is the latest TV series, this one for Netflix, about young people with latent superhuman abilities, coalescing as a group force to offset those who are hunting them and wish them harm. This basic premise has resulted in several strong current TV series – the good Fox show The Gifted and the outstanding FX series Legion – but also a glut of other, lesser ones, including the new Syfy series Deadly Class. And now there’s this one, which, from me, elicits a first-impression yawn. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.

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