'The Umbrella Academy' worms its way to become the Top Streaming show on Netflix

The Umbrella Academy is a Netflix Original series which released last year in February. Although it received a lukewarm response for the first season, the time-warp angle and the new antics of the superhero siblings seem to have caught up with the audience. The Umbrella Academy has gone on to become one of the most-streamed online content right now. Here's what it is all about. 

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The Umbrella Academy grabs top position as most-streamed content 

The finale of season one of The Umbrella Academy ended with a bang and season two seems to have picked up the pace. The audience seems to have loved the storyline of time-warping and a band of dysfunctional superhero siblings. This pushed the Netflix originals to become of the top streaming OTT content. In fact, due to the sudden popularity of series, even Netflix is ruling on top as the most viewed OTT platform. 

The Umbrella Academy has now even surpassed the viewing numbers of shows like The Office, Parks & Recreation and Shameless. It crossed them in the latest US list of Nielsen's Top Streaming Shows. The Umbrella Academy grabbed the topmost position with 3.01 billion minutes views in the opening week itself. Here's a list of Nielsen's Top Streaming Shows in the US:

• The Umbrella Academy- 3.01 billion
• Shameless- 1.13 billion
• Grey’s Anatomy- 918 million
• The Office- 897 million
• Criminal Minds- 697 million
• NCIS- 524 million
• In the Dark- 418 million
• Dexter- 316 million
• Supernatural0 315 million
• Parks and Recreation- 304 million

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The Umbrella Academy season 1 and 2

The Umbrella Academy's first season ended with Vanya losing control over her power and slitting Alison's throat. Luther wanted to lock her up in the basement. However, this again triggers a childhood trauma in Vanya since Sir Reginald use to treat her the same way. She takes a more sinister form and becomes White Violin destroying anything that crossed her path. As the Earth reaches an apocalyptic end, Number Five transports himself and his siblings to another timeline. However, they all end up in different timelines with yet another apocalypse threatening Earth. 

By the end of The Umbrella Academy Season 2, the Hargreeves siblings have successfully averted another apocalypse. They jump back to 2019, that is the present timeline. However, there are again some blotches in the timeline which happened because of this. Sir Reginald is alive and now surrounded by a group called the Sparrow Academy. Nothing is known about the latter and their role. 

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