The Umbrella Academy is preparing for its fourth and final season, and thanks to what one of its main stars said about it, the show seems to be about to get a proper ending. The Umbrella Academy is one of Netflix’s most popular and successful TV shows in recent years, but after three wild and successful seasons, it’s coming to an end with season 4. The Umbrella Academy season 3 ended on a massive cliffhanger that left the Hargreeves (and Lila) completely vulnerable and in a timeline where their father, Reginald Hargreeves, is in full control.
Reginald used his adoptive children to power a machine inside Hotel Oblivion that would allow him to reset the timeline and activate one designed by him. Although Allison killed Reginald at the last minute, she pulled the lever and activated Reginald’s timeline. As a result, the Hargreeves and Lila no longer have powers, Sloane disappeared, Allison has her daughter and her 1960s husband, Reginald’s wife is alive and well, and he’s the most powerful man. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has a lot of questions and mysteries to address, but one of its main stars has given a relieving tease about it.
At the time of writing, there are no plot details about The Umbrella Academy season 4, and the only footage released so far shows Viktor and Five together and then the whole team back together, taking shots. There have been no real story teases about The Umbrella Academy season 4 so far, but Justin H. Min (Ben Hargreeves in the series) has given a tease that should ease the biggest concerns about the final season. Without giving any plot details away, Min told Screen Rant that The Umbrella Academy season 4 will give fans closure and that it does justice to the story and characters.
Min added that The Umbrella Academy’s final season will be a wild ride, just like the previous seasons, and that filming it was “very emotional”. Min’s tease should be a huge relief for fans as there’s a lot that season 4 has to solve, starting with how the Hargreeves will regain their powers and where Sloane is. There are also some individual mysteries that The Umbrella Academy season 4 has to solve, such as Ben’s death and the “Jennifer incident”, Five and the founding of The Commission, and Reginald’s alien origins, so Min’s tease about proper closure is quite promising.
There’s a lot of pressure for The Umbrella Academy season 4 given everything it has to address and solve, but to truly succeed, it needs to find a good balance. The previous seasons had a lot of humor but also went to pretty dark places, giving some strange but satisfying balance to the show. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has to keep that tone that has worked so well and has made the series so entertaining, but it also needs to get more sentimental than the previous ones.
The Umbrella Academy has gotten more and more personal, and all the Hargreeves have a lot to lose but also a lot to gain. As the final season, The Umbrella Academy season 4 has to be sentimental to feel like a proper ending, and there are different ways the show can achieve that. The Umbrella Academy seems to be on its way to getting a satisfying ending, and hopefully, it won’t leave any loose ends.