Umbrella Academy has been renewed for a fourth and final season. Netflix confirmed via Twitter that the entire Hargreaves family will be back for a “goodbye season.” Umbrella Academy series creator and showrunner Steve Blackman will oversee executive production duties before moving on to other projects for Netflix. In a statement to Variety, Blackman said that the fourth season of The Umbrella Academy will serve as a “appropriate ending” for the Hargreaves siblings arc, in a whole new timeline.
“I’m so excited that incredibly loyal fans of ‘The Umbrella Academy’ will be able to experience the fitting end of the Hargreaves siblings’ journey that began five years ago,” said showrunner Blackman Diversity, “But before we get to that conclusion, we’ve got an amazing story for season four that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the last minute.”
The news comes in the wake of Blackman expanding his creative partnership with Netflix. He will adapt PlayStation’s critically acclaimed Horizon Zero Dawn game and a live-action series based on an original concept called Orbital (not to be confused with the Gadgets 360 podcast of the same name). Umbrella Academy Season 3 ends with our heroes encountering Sparrow, after which, they enter a new timeline, losing all their superpowers. Also, siblings Allison (Amy Raver-Lampman) and Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez) have split.
one in prepared statementIn this article, producer Blackman addressed these points. This new timeline is set by Hargreaves, who reprogrammed the universe at the end of the Season 3 finale. But because of Allison’s actions, she didn’t finish what she started before Allison hit the reset button. did,” it reads. The loss of powers isn’t the only oddity or challenge in the upcoming Umbrella Academy Season 4, as fans can expect to see new enemies on occasion. “How do they manage without their powers? Is there even a way to bring them back? The stakes have never been bigger,” Blackman said.
There was a post-credits scene in the Umbrella Academy Season 3 finale, “Oblivion”, where we see a version of Ben Hargreaves (Justin H. Min) riding a Korean subway. As the train moves, he looks up from his book and smiles to himself. At the time, fans were confused as to which version or timeline this Ben belonged to. In a statement to Netflix, Blackman confirmed that it was the disciplined Sparrow Ben.
“The question you really should be asking yourself is he’s reading a book about pottery on the Korean subway train, is he f—k? Weird, right?” Blackman said. “Everything we see has meaning. And this moment is no exception. Ben has a reason to be there… but you’ll have to wait until Season 4 to understand why.”
The fourth and final season of Umbrella Academy will bring back a wildly dysfunctional superhero family. The ensemble cast includes Elliot Page as Victor Hargreaves, Tom Hopper as Luther Hargreaves, David Castaneda as Diego Hargreaves, Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreaves, Aidan Gallagher as Number Five, Ritu as Leila Pitts. Arya and Sir Reginal Hargreaves as Kollam Fair.
Currently, there is no release window or episode count for The Umbrella Academy Season 4. Umbrella Academy Seasons 1 to 3 are now streaming exclusively on Netflix.
