Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy feels like a bleak X-Men story

Netflix’s TV series The Umbrella Academy isn’t as weird as the Gerard Way / Gabriel Bá comic book series it’s based on, but “less weird” for this story is admittedly a very low bar to reach. The first issue of The Umbrella Academy comic features a battle with the zombie robot Gustave Eiffel, which culminates with the Eiffel Tower blasting into space. In the series, showrunner Steve Blackman (Legion, Altered Carbon) reduces that fight to a coy visual reference. His team has carefully pruned the story in a way that embraces the comic’s more bizarre qualities, while making room for a more coherent narrative.

The story of The Umbrella Academy kicks off 30 years ago, when 43 children were born around the world to women who had previously…

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Chrome is getting a dark mode for Windows 10 and macOS

Google is testing out a new dark mode for its Chrome browser. 9to5Google reports that both macOS and Windows 10 will get dark mode support, and it’s currently in testing in the latest Canary development builds of Chrome. Google’s browser appears to enable dark mode by default, picking up your system settings on macOS and Windows.

It’s not entirely clear how Google plans to introduce its dark mode for Chrome. We’ve tested it in the latest Chrome Canary release. On some systems, it respects the system-wide dark mode, and on others, it does not. Google must still be experimenting with the best way to roll this out on both macOS and Windows 10.

The dark mode enables a dark default page for new tabs, darker chrome borders, and…

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