From The Umbrella Academy
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 stays a tight, story-driven ride about dysfunctional siblings racing to stop an apocalypse, earning its low 3/10 woke score by treating personal quirks as background flavor rather than plot drivers.
The Umbrella Academy Season 1 adapts the Gerard Way comics with a dysfunctional superhero family premise centered on powers, time travel, an impending apocalypse, and sibling rivalries, without any foundational reliance on identity politics or systemic oppression narratives.
The story follows the Hargreeves siblings reuniting to prevent global catastrophe while uncovering their father's secrets, keeping the focus squarely on personal dysfunction and action rather than social messaging or creator-mandated inclusion themes. Casting features a mix of actors including Elliot Page as Vanya Hargreeves (matching the source material's gender in this season), Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison, and David Castañeda as Diego, but these choices align with organic ensemble diversity rather than targeted swaps of established figures. Klaus Hargreeves receives a bisexual/pansexual arc with a same-sex romance subplot involving Dave during a Vietnam time-travel sequence, plus occasional cross-dressing and gender-nonconforming presentation that the family accepts without fanfare or lectures, treating these elements as personal flavor within the larger family and apocalypse plot rather than narrative drivers.
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We've run a full content analysis on The Umbrella Academy - Season 1 and scored it 3/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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Aidan Gallagher
Number Five
Elliot Page
Viktor Hargreeves / Number Seven
Tom Hopper
Luther Hargreeves / Number One
Emmy Raver-Lampman
Allison Hargreeves / Number Three
Robert Sheehan
Klaus Hargreeves / Number Four
David Castañeda
Diego Hargreeves / Number Two
Justin H. Min
Ben Hargreeves / Number Six
Ritu Arya
Lila Pitts
Colm Feore
Sir Reginald Hargreeves
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