Last month saw the release of the third season of The Umbrella Academy, a Netflix-produced adaptation of the comic series of the same name by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way and Brazilian comic artist Gabriel Bá.
The Netflix series, under the direction of creators Jeremy Slater and Steve Blackman, changes and expands on its source material to create something that is clearly an adaptation but also unique. And that’s why I’m here to argue The Umbrella Academy proves something I’ve been saying for years: when an adaptation is different to its source material it rules, actually.
