The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Embraces Forgiveness and the Past

There’s a strange lack of concern for the end of the world in The Umbrella Academy season one. The seven Hargreeves siblings spend so much time fighting and their inability to recognize each other’s trauma as well as their own…

How The Umbrella Academy Leaves Klaus Hargreeves Behind

A bloody, beaten-up man in nothing but a jacket and towel, holding a briefcase, blinks out of existence in the middle of a city bus. This is how episode four, “Man on the Moon,” of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy ends.…

From the Record Crate: My Chemical Romance – “The Black Parade” (2006)

The mid-2000’s was the last true golden age of popular rock music; a brief, ridiculously giddy moment in which rock bands shed off the creative straightjacket of “alternative authenticity” and fabricated the kind of overblown, heart attack inducing, melodramatic teen…