The Umbrella Academy - Season One, Episode Two - Run Boy Run - TUAMRE
An iconic episode. We've met the characters and here comes the plot proper. Some lovely character building moments, even if its family not getting on/not understanding each other.
Comments/Honourable mentions:
- Five's flare up at the dinner table and appearing in the apocalypse. The iconic Run Boy Run scene. Five falling to his knees in front of the Academy always just gets me.
- Hazel and Cha Cha's badass introduction, quickly undercuy by the Commission's cost cutting and the heavy suitcase
- Hazel eating ice cream at the Griddy's crime scene
- Allison calling Luther Claire's very own superhero
- Klaus's little flashback chucking Reg's journal so we know what he's been up to - the music is so Klaus
- The 1938 cold case prints - would love to find out what the Commission job this was for.
- Hazel's continued preoccupation on food - Tuna but no mayo. Italian for dinner?
- Allison saying she would die to make sure Claire was safe and happy...uh oh...
- Five speaking about Dolores to Klaus and deciding he needs to go and find her
- The saga of Mr Puddles and Mrs Kowalski
- Diego's little hair trip wire at the door to his boiler room
- Viktor teaching Leonard to play the violin. All praise to music teachers. You put up with a lot.
- The surveillance tapes - 'I'm going to ask dad about time travel' - I need a full transcript of all the conversations that we hear brief snippets of in the videos.
- The kids running around the Academy in the surveillance tapes.
- Gimbel Brothers having a Seniors Tuesdays sign as Five walks by. Nice touch.
- The whole sequence of Five seeing Dolores for the first time. Five's genuine smile. One of my favourite sequences. I fully believe in their relationship and their connection.
- Dont Stop Me Now sequence. Iconic. The comic book separation and editing style of this sequence.
- Five caught in the light of Hazel and Cha Cha's guns. He's been caught and just manages to get away. The shot of him, shaking and clutching Dolores - just one of my most devastating images of the entire show.
- Five finding his family. Oh this is why it matters so much to him Shaking Diego. Seeing Klaus's tattoo. Gut punch.