For Fans of The Umbrella Academy

DC's Doom Patrol (on Max) shares the same DNA of reluctant, self-destructive people with powers they never asked for, living in a house run by a father figure with unclear motives. But it goes stranger: surrealist villain Mr. Nobody, a sentient street, an existential menace called the Decreator. Doom Patrol is the show for Umbrella Academy fans who want the weirdness amplified and the superhero conventions stripped away almost entirely.

Before the streaming superhero boom, Josh Trank's 2012 found-footage film Chronicle was doing something similar: three ordinary teenagers acquire powers and what follows is less adventure than psychological unraveling. The film spends most of its runtime in the register Umbrella Academy returns to again and again, the cost of power on people who are already struggling. It is a small, sharp film that still holds up.

Remedy's Control drops you into the Federal Bureau of Control, a government agency that studies paranormal objects and events, and gives you telekinetic powers to fight back against something that has taken over the building. The aesthetic: brutalist architecture, bureaucratic absurdism, unexplained weirdness treated as institutional procedure. Fans of Umbrella Academy's off-kilter tone and its willingness to leave things unexplained will feel immediately at home.