Netflix Series: THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY (Season 3 Discussion thread)(New Trailer 5/19/22) (Drops 6/22/22)
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'Umbrella Academy' cast teases 'new villains' in final season
'The Umbrella Academy' cast teases 'unbelievable new characters and new villains' in its upcoming final season, which will include Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally.
‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 4 Trailer: “The Final Timeline”
The fourth and final season of Netflix's time-travel drama will hit the streamer August 8.
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ Showrunner Accused of ‘Toxic, Bullying Behavior’ by 12 Writers and Support Staff
"The Umbrella Academy" showrunner Steve Blackman allegedly made frequent “sexist, homophobic, and transphobic” comments.
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'The Umbrella Academy' Showrunner Accused of 'Toxic, Bullying, Manipulative, and Retaliatory Behavior'
‘The Umbrella Academy’ showrunner Steve Blackman was accused of 'toxic, bullying, manipulative, and retaliatory behavior' by 12 staffers.
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The Umbrella Academy Showrunner Accused of 'Toxic' Behavior Behind the Scenes
The Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman has responded to the allegations of "bullying" and mistreatment by 12 staffers.
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'The Umbrella Academy' season 4 trailer reveals Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
'The Umbrella Academy' final season trailer reveals Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally's mysterious characters and explains that Justin H. Min's Ben is the key to everything.
Elliot Page slams 'flat-out lies' about trans community in conservative politics
'Umbrella Academy' star Elliot Page appeared on 'The View' and took an emotional stance on anti-trans politics, slamming 'flat-out lies' about the community.
‘The Umbrella Academy’ showrunner explains the 'heroic' implications of the show's ending
'The Umbrella Academy' showrunner Steve Blackman talks the apocalyptic ending of season 4 and why it was 'the most heroic thing a superhero could do.'
'The Umbrella Academy' star says it was 'thrilling' to finally learn how Ben died in season 4
'The Umbrella Academy' star Justin H. Min and showrunner Steve Blackman discuss the revelation of Ben's death in season 4.
What in the entire f**k was that?
Netflix users outraged by ‘most disappointing series ending in history’
‘What the hell happened?’ one perplexed fan wrote
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The Umbrella Academy co-creator denies allegations of toxic behaviour
Employees claim Blackman made ‘sexist, homophobic, and transphobic’ remarks
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'The Umbrella Academy' Showrunner Accused of 'Toxic, Bullying, Manipulative, and Retaliatory Behavior'
‘The Umbrella Academy’ showrunner Steve Blackman was accused of 'toxic, bullying, manipulative, and retaliatory behavior' by 12 staffers.
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ Showrunner Rebuffs Exposé’s Account of Toxic Behavior
The Netflix hit's behind-the-scenes bullying environment was allegedly led by the show's boss, according to the details of an HR complaint from 2023.
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David Castaneda Reflects on Surprise 'Umbrella Academy' Romance
‘The Umbrella Academy’ stars David Castaneda, Ritu Aryu, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H.Min break down that shocking season 4 romance exclusively with Us
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The fourth and final season of 'The Umbrella Academy' has 1 end-credits scene. Here's what happens.
Netflix's TV show adaptation of "The Umbrella Academy" concluded with a bittersweet fourth season and an end-credits scene honoring the Hargreeves.
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What Are We Supposed to Make of That Ending of The Umbrella Academy?
The siblings say goodbye the only way they can.
Looks like I have some catching up to do.
I still have to watch season 3 before this season ends up getting spoiled for me lol.
I still have to watch season 3 before this season ends up getting spoiled for me lol.
The Umbrella Academy Series-Finale Recap: Fighting With My Family
The series’ ending is satisfying enough, but watching these characters go out like this is a tough pill to swallow.
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What if you said F you to fans, your actors and what you've spent 7 years creating? What if you created a solution so incredibly stupid and destructive to everything you've built and fans have supported for 5 years that it makes both season 8 of Game of Thrones and Deans needless death on Supernatural look like Mr Feeny's "Class Dismissed?" What if you start to sabotage your own show by season 3 and, pun intended, obliterate it by minute 10 of season 4's first episode? How about turning one of the series most beloved characters into a sex trafficked Monk who not only repeats word for word lines he said in another tv show from 15 years ago you borderline rip-off, but in an exact replica of a scene? How about give him his comic accurate powers just half an hour before he's wiped from existence? Spend all season assassinating the character of a Black woman and turning your two Asian characters into something so racist it's almost laughable. Thor like fat jokes. An insane affair between two characters who last season finally got families they wanted making that the focus of some of their last moments. Then erasing this family we've identified with and loved from what they've worked so hard for? You introduce 6 new characters in an already bloated season, then spend more time with them than the main cast? I feel like an a-hole after that and so do probably 90% of fans and critics.
Academy Series-Finale Recap: Fighting With My Family
By Scott Meslow, a freelancer, author and a senior editor at The Week magazine
The Umbrella Academy
The End of the Beginning
Season 4 Episode 6
Editor’s Rating 4 stars****
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From the very beginning, the heroes of The Umbrella Academy have spent every season finale fending off the apocalypse. What “The End of the Beginning” presupposes is … what if they didn’t?
I’ve covered The Umbrella Academy from the beginning and complained, at times, that the show’s universally high stakes have had a deadening effect on its ability to generate actual drama. If the world is always ending, how worried can you really be when someone tells you it’s ending again?
Cleverly, “The End of the Beginning” leans right into those complaints. The world, we’re told midway through the episode, has been on the brink of apocalypse exactly 145,412 times. The existence of the Umbrella Academy is both the cause of and solution to that problem; if Netflix renewed the series for 145,412 seasons, we’d see some version of this cycle play out exactly 145,412 times. But we live in the timeline in which The Umbrella Academy is ending after a mere four seasons. Which raises the question: How, at last, does this cycle end?
This time, the engine of the apocalypse is Ben and Jennifer, whose combustible blend of marigold and durango is turning them into a monster that’s somewhere between a so-so Godzilla kaiju and the final boss from one of the lesser Resident Evil games. Viktor, who knows better than most of his siblings what it’s like to be the Umbrella everyone fears, is committed to his belief that Ben can be redeemed. Reginald is skeptical but willing to give Viktor’s strategy a chance before he sends the snipers in.
To this powder keg, The Umbrella Academy has added an additional spark: Abigail, Reginald’s long-lost wife, who has secretly engineered much of the action in season four and is now wearing Gene’s skin. The Keepers have been cheering for the Cleanse all along, but it’s now clear that the Cleanse isn’t an event: It’s a monster that will stomp through a city, growing and devouring and devouring and growing until the entire timeline has been obliterated. Abigail is here to make sure that happens.
And so, like so many idiots before them, the Keepers enthusiastically cheer for the same forces that will ensure their own miserable end. Abigail, who is absolutely terrible at pretending to be Gene — to be fair, she’s both a dead woman and an alien — lets the mask slip almost instantly, killing Jean and revealing herself to Reginald. As the woman he loves tells him that the end of the world is a good thing, something seems to shift in Reginald; having fought so hard to bring Abigail back, he acknowledges that accepting oblivion for herself and everything else was probably the right move all along.
That leaves us with the Umbrellas, who are hardly a unanimous vote. Ben is losing himself to the Cleanse but pops through just often enough to stop Allison from delivering a killing blow. Diego, having learned of Five and Lila’s love affair, is more interested in fighting Five. Viktor is still looking for the needle-in-a-haystack solution that will somehow save everyone.
I’ll be honest: So was I. It wouldn’t be the first time The Umbrella Academy has pulled a rabbit out of a hat, distracting the viewer with apocalyptic stakes before knocking all the pieces off the board and resetting the game with a totally different set of rules.
The finale’s version of that dynamic comes when Five, reeling after losing Lila to Diego, heads back into the subway and wanders into a deli populated with alternate versions of himself. All this chaos, another Five tells him, was caused by the mere existence of the Umbrella Academy. And it won’t stop unless all of them are gone.
And so begins the melancholy conclusion of this series, as each of the Umbrellas accepts that the fate of the world rests on them not being around anymore. It’s not just their deaths that will save the world, Five reminds everyone; it’s their nonexistence, in the past, present, or future, that ensures the world can exist at all.
There’s a meta-referential quality to the storytelling here: What The Umbrella Academy is pitching, basically, is a world without The Umbrella Academy. That might be a tough pill to swallow for this show’s most devoted fans, but they do get a parting gift in the lengthy, emotional sequence in which the Umbrellas clasp hands and let the Cleanse absorb them.
In retrospect, Viktor spoke the line that reveals the heart of the series a few episodes ago: “We drive each other crazy, we bicker constantly, but when things go to hell — which they inevitably do — they’re there for me.” We’ve seen a lot of bad blood pass between these siblings over the course of The Umbrella Academy, but underneath all that pain is a lot of affection — even if the final bit of dialogue before the Cleanse absorbs everyone is “fuck you” not “I love you.” Fair enough: For this family, the line between the two sentiments has always been very thin.
This final sequence is set, appropriately enough, to Tommy James and the Shondells’ “I Think We’re Alone Now” — the original version of the Tiffany song and viral dance sequence that helped propel season one of The Umbrella Academy into megapopularity in the first place. After a brief montage reminding us of all the timelines we’ve already seen, we cut to a park full of familiar faces from the show’s previous seasons — the Swedes, Grace, the Handler, and more — all apparently free to enjoy a nice, sunny day without the Umbrellas there to cast any shade on it. “On the twelfth hour of the eighth day of August 2024, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary occurred,” says Reginald in the voice-over monologue that concludes the series. “You might say it was just a normal day.”
But that’s not quite true. After the credits roll, we get a brief shot of a gardening miracle: a patch of marigolds — one for each Umbrella — suddenly sprouting out of the ground under a tree. Those flowers feel like a fitting closing image for this series about a group of mismatched siblings raised under unforgivingly difficult conditions: fragile, bright, and, above all, growing together.
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• I found this ending broadly satisfying, but circumstantial evidence suggests The Umbrella Academy had a lot of false starts before landing here. In addition to the never-addressed season-three cliffhanger featuring Ben on a train in Seoul, pre-release material from Netflix indicated that Luther’s season-four arc would be built around finding Sloane. In the season we got, Sloane is barely even mentioned.• Another annoying lingering question left dangling by the show’s end: Who were the other superpowered children? We were told, in the series premiere, that 43 women suddenly gave birth at the same time on October 1, 1989; in practice, we didn’t even meet half of the kids who were born on that day.
• A partial list of the alternate Fives encountered by Five at Max’s Delicatessen: Booth Five, Drunk Five, Newspaper Five, Waiter Five, Brisket Five.
• The subtitles describe Muse’s “Map of the Problematique” as “entrancing prog-rock” — which, yeah, that’s about right.
• A nice, subtle musical callback: The song when Five returns to the subway is “Dead to the World” by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds — the same group that memorably scored an earlier Five scene with “In the Heat of the Moment” back in season one.
• One last round of “Baby Shark,” which somehow remains funny.
• The image quality in my screener wasn’t good enough for a clear look, but in case your TV is higher definition than mine: Did anyone spot any Easter eggs in the gallery of highlights from the 145,412 previous apocalypses at Max’s Delicatessen? Sound off in the comments below.
‘Umbrella Academy’ Showrunner on Ending the World One More Time — and Potential Spinoffs
Reflecting on four seasons the hit Netflix adaptation, Steve Blackman unpacks the challenges of doing a final run in six episodes — and what that ending really meant — while also discussing the show's diversity, legacy and the allegations made by former writers.
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ Creator Has a Four-Season Plan
After three “bonkers” seasons and the most recent earth-shattering finale, Steve Blackman opens up to The Hollywood Reporter about the highlights of season three (including that iconic opening musical number) and shares his hopes for doing more.
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What Actually Happened During 'The Umbrella Academy' Series Finale?
The final moments of the show left us shaking (and crying).
Who Is Abigail Hargreeves and WTF Did She Just Do in 'The Umbrella Academy'?
The elusive character, explained.
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The Umbrella Academy's Ending Finally Explains The "No Cellphones" Mystery After 4 Seasons
They finally exist!
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Umbrella Academy’s ending left us with some questions (and some answers)
Sing it with me now: Children behaaaave
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Who were those people at the end?
The final scene of The Umbrella Academy showcases a blissful day in a park, where nothing bad is happening. There’s a callback to the first season, with a cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now” playing. At first, we see Lila’s family, her and Diego’s kids, and Claire all having a picnic, clearly having made it out of the subway totally fine.But then the camera pans and we see more characters. It’s a bit hard to tell who they are, considering most of the iconic Umbrella Academy characters have very distinct costumes and appearances. Seeing them in comparably normal clothes means taking a second to figure out who they are. We’ve got it covered though!
The three older dudes playing Frisbee are the three Swedish assassins from season 2. The reason they’re old is because season 2 took place in the 1960s, remember? And they’re all still alive! Yay!
The couple pushing their bikes together are Agnes the donut lady and Hazel, the assassin who fell in love with her back in season 1.
The woman pushing the stroller is Grace, the Hargreeves siblings’ mom — a robot modeled after a real woman that Reginald dated in the 1960s. It’s unclear whether this version is a robot or the real woman (who hasn’t aged since the 1960s), but she’s gently pushing a stroller, so she is a mom!
Then there’s the lady stretching in the middle of her run — the Handler! She’s almost unrecognizable without the wig and the extravagant get up. But she’s still getting right down to business. So some things never change.
The person sketching is Gabriel Ba, the actual artist behind the Umbrella Academy comics (#meta).
The two people playing backgammon are Dot and Herb, who worked at the Commission and basically unionized against the Handler when she took over the Board of directors. Now instead of worrying about world ending events, they can just have a lovely day in the sun.
There are other people distantly in the background, but they were too small for us to make out. Showrunner Steve Blackman says that they got a lot of the actors back for this final scene (the exceptions being Mary J. Blige and John Magaro from season 1). He also told us that Dolores the mannequin makes a cameo, so look out for that!
'The Umbrella Academy' finale: A guide to everyone in that last scene
Wait...is that...
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Every Cameo in 'The Umbrella Academy' Final Season
There are so many Easter Eggs in the Netflix show’s season four finale
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 4 Finale Brought Everything to an Emotional But Confusing End
How did The Umbrella Academy's final mission go?!
The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Ending Explained: The Cast Breaks Down the Epic Conclusion (Exclusive)
The Umbrella Academy cast spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about the season 4 finale, including how the Hargreeves family stopped another apocalypse and what that open-ended post-credits scene means for the fate of their characters. Here's a breakdown of The Umbrella Academy series finale ending.
The Umbrella Academy season 4 is a bittersweet but frustrating finale that proves the hit Netflix show is ending at the right time
'Now come one, come all to this tragic affair...'
I can definitely tell Netflix was ready to move on from TUC the number of episodes, how condensed it was from previous seasons and how some characters were completely forgotten and barely spoken of.Gene and Jean Thibedeau portrayed by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally were just OK as the villains. I preferred Hazel and Cha Cha from the previous season. I liked the display of powers whenever it happened during the episodes. Any side stories or adventures felt condensed and I didn't mind it at all. I was happy to see more of a camadarrie between the characters. In the end the main characters did what heroes due for the most part if I'm reading a graphic novel,watching a movie or superhero series show like this.
This wasn't a good series finale to end this show!!..It was wack to me!!...To be honest, they should have cancelled this show after season 3...
It was a wack series finale!!
As they were coming to understand and share their powers, this character had a coming out the closet moment and appeared as a man/boy.
Naturally the family of misfits accepted it and moved forward with the new male persona.
You should watch when you have an opportunity. Smart sci fi time travel alternate universe comic book craziness with real drama great acting and special effects. Like an adult doctor who meets MCU.
Actually the transition was extremely well done and received praise from critics fans and lgbtq but strangely when they tried to #metoo the showrunner suddenly it was retroactively labeled badly done. Page themselves though has never had a bad word to say and thanked the showrunner.
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