The worst part about The Umbrella Academy's final season is that they took a show that was initially about a group of adults who were trying to get over their childhood trauma and find a way to move forward together and left us with the message "actually, you can't overcome that trauma and the world's a better place without you." Not only is it a bad season, it's wild to imagine anybody thought that was a good ending.

Tom Hopper, Luther's actor, pointed out in an interview that Luther's gorilla body was caused by the gorilla serum, not by the marigold. When even the actors are openly questioning the writing decisions, you know that it's a stinker. Not to mention, Luther inexplicably forgives Allison for almost sexually assaulting him, as do the other siblings, for betraying them.

the worst part about the umbrella academy is that it retroactively made everything that came previously worse with that ending

Lee Jung Jae learnt English for an absolutely horrendous script. I feel so bad for the man😭too good for this shit

Still so salty about umbrella academy. Not that it’s on the list, but it kinda feels like the writers just didn’t know what to do.

Edit: the fact that this comment has like 3 times more likes than I have subscribers is hilarious to me

Remember when shows used to go for about 5 seasons at MINIMUM. Now a show is considered a success if it makes  it past season ONE without being cancelled 😂

Umbrella academy ending on such a horrendous note was personal. Leaving the horrendous ending and cgi across the season aside, reducing key characters like klaus and luther to absolute jokes and stripping them of all their development was just so fucking painful to watch. Also the sheer number of plot holes was just hilarious and dont even get me started on 5 and lila's romance. Disgraceful the way the writers ruined the show.

The discourse around the Acolyte made me realise why I stopped caring about Star Wars. I never see people who like Star Wars anymore: I see people who hate Star Wars, and people who hate the people who hate Star Wars

Bad TV is weird because unlike movies where you might as well finish a 2 hour movies, it's just easy to stop after a bad episode.  Life's too short to watch a 10 hour thing you hate nowadays.

"Tate McRae continues to make music for white people who think water is too spicy" hard to recover from that. LOL

I don't think the dimwits running Amazon Prime even realise that "Cruel Intentions" was a 90s High School update of "Dangerous Liaisons". Much like how they would be unaware that "10 Things I Hate About You" was a 90s retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" (by Shakespeare) and "Clueless" the 90s re-telling of "Emma" (by Jane Austen)

The part about Star Wars was heartbreaking because of how much I agreed with it. When Disney bought the franchise everyone was making jokes about Star Wars musicals or Leia being considered a Disney princess now but I don't think anyone could've predicted this level of cultural irrelevance. People straight up don't care for it anymore and it's so sad man.

I canceled my Netflix membership because of how awful The Umbrella Academy S4 was. When it asked on the survey why I was canceling I put “Other - Ya’ll ruined S4 of The Umbrella Academy”. It was almost like whoever came up with the story had never watched a single minute of the show prior. I didn’t even recognize these characters and the amount of unanswered setups was egregious.

The Umbrella Academy HURT me. I wouldn't say I was a huge fan of the show, but I enjoyed it quite a bit, especially the second season, and many of the characters became very dear to me. To say I was upset is an understatement. The first 2 episodes are more or less okay compared to the rest of the season and by the time Lila and Five thing happened I was just screaming at the screen. And the fact that we've known for a while that this would be the final season only makes it worse, because all of these were choices that weren't rushed. I'm still upset when I think about what they've done to this show and I'd much rather forget this season ever existed.

Honestly, Andor is the ONLY reason I haven't given up on Star Wars yet.

It's proof that LucasFilm can make a great TV Show if the shareholders aren't allowed to meddle in the creative process.

Once again, capitalism ruins everything.

Speaking as someone who adored the umbrella academy from the start I can tell you I was devastated. It was like watching a minor fender bender turn into a twenty car pileup in slow motion.
I kept thinking “it can’t get worse than this. Wait, why is that pedestrian carrying a gasoline tank? What are they….. no. They couldn’t, who would do something so…. Oh god. Why would someone knowingly… the school bus was already on fire!”

I posted on social that the biggest tell was the cast didn’t even perform their seasonal dance number, and from that it just felt like no one was having fun making the show anymore and they just wanted to be done as fast as possible.

"The Umbrella Academy" making the worst list honestly makes me sad. I started off really adoring this show, and you could relate to the characters, and their pain. Due to the final season being truncated, it was extremely rushed. Characters like Klaus and Allison were underutilsed, others, like Five and Lila, were written so out of character, and the ending renders the entire show pointless. The only things I enjoyed were the campy villains, and Elliot Page's compelling performance as Viktor.

16:18 you're almost correct. Animated shows since Steven Universe have, instead of putting in an order for a 20 episode season, they would put in an order for 20 episodes, and then slice those in half and release them as 2 separate "seasons" so they can avoid certain payments to animation studios. This became so common that WB and HBO order 2 seasons of around 10 episodes up front. So they can announce a "2nd season" shortly after the first as quickly as possible which is advantageous if the first season was popular. And then they will see how well the 2nd season does before putting in an order for a 3rd season.

All that to say; Season 1 and 2 of Velma were made at the same time as part of the same order.

Dude do you sleep? The grind you have been on has truly been incredible to witness. Talk about a great way to close out the year. Looking forward to what 2025 brings for the channel!

im glad you mentioned dead boy detectives about cancelling good shows! it was so full of creativity and had a genuine story and character growth but the writing felt on the wall about it never getting far unfortunatly.