It’s official,The Umbrella Academywill return for a fourth and final seasononly onNetflix. Following the announcement, series creator Steve Blackman has now revealed details about the superhero siblings’ last hurrah in a discussion withNetflix.com. The third season ofThe Umbrella Academyends with the Hargreeves emerging in yet another timeline, only this time without their powers, and Blackman has teased how these major changes will affect the family.
“It certainly is. But the siblings are always up for a challenge. This new timeline has been dictated by Hargreeves, who reprogrammed the Universe at the end of the Season 3 finale. But because of Allison’s actions, he didn’t get to finish what he started before Allison pressed the reset button.”
Based on the Dark Horse comic by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá,The Umbrella Academydrops audiences into a bizarre world where, in 1989, a highly unusual occurrence sees forty-three infants inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy. Seven of these mysterious babies are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist, who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world.
Both seasons 2 and 3 find The Umbrella Academy surviving in a new timeline, with the third season involving a battle between The Umbrella Academy and their alternate counterparts The Sparrow Academy,before concluding with a literal reset. Emerging in a world of their father Reginald’s design, Allison has been reunited with Claire and Ray, while the rest of the Academy find themselves without any of their superpowers. In a mid-credits scene, the Sparrow Academy variant of Ben rides a Seoul subway, similar to the one on which he was born.
The Umbrella AcademySeason 4 Will Feature More From Variant Ben
It’s unlikely that that mid-credits scene is the last we will see of Sparrow variant Ben, with Steve Blackman confirming that yes, it is the variant and not the original. But you’ll have to tune in the season 4 to find out what he’s up to…
“Let’s be clear — that is Sparrow Ben. The question you should really be asking yourself is what the f–k is he doing on a Korean subway train reading a book about pottery? Odd, right? Of course, it is! This is the Umbrella Academy. As every good Umbrella fan knows, no moment in the show exists in isolation. 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.”
There are still plenty of questions left to answer inThe Umbrella AcademySeason 4,so here’s hoping that Blackman has enough time to do so in the final series.
StarringElliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, and Colm Feore, the first three seasons ofThe Umbrella Academyare available to stream now on Netflix.The Umbrella AcademySeason 4 does not yet have a release date.
