THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Season 4 is on Netflix. This is the final season of the popular sci-fi, action, adventure hybrid series. We begin six years after the previous season ended. Read our The Umbrella Academy Season 4 review here!

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Season 4 is finally on Netflix to give us the final season. I have been a fan of this genre-hybrid series since the very first season. It’s been a wild and crazy ride that will now conclude over six episodes.

Sure, some seasons have been stronger than others, but this is mostly a question of preference. In this season, we’re in a very different timeline where no one has powers. A wild ending of season three gives way to a new crazy story.

Continue reading our The Umbrella Academy Season 4 review below. Find all six episodes on Netflix from August 8, 2024.

Stressful and quite sad

Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy ended with a huge twist: The Hargreeves siblings found themselves in a new timeline dictated by the family patriarch, Reginald.

This is a timeline where the siblings have no powers. And yes, season 4 does open with a recap of season 3, so we are reminded of this brutal final twist of the previous season.

In this new timeline, it’s now six years later and the siblings are leading lives that are mostly sad and/or stressful.

Luther is a (bad) stripper, but trying to stay positive, while Allison’s acting career is stuck on doing commercials. Klaus is sober and claims to be happier than ever, but is also a huge germophobe and scared of everything.

The rest of the siblings aren’t better off. Everything is just off as they deal with memories of having powers, but are very much powerless. Only Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) seems to be able to keep his wits about him.

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Enter Gene and Jean Thibodeau…

In this new timeline, it turns out quite a lot of people are aware that something is off. Not just the Hargreeves, who experienced the whole timeline shift as an alternative to the end of the universe as we know it. Or knew it!

Early on in episode 1, we meet Dr. Jean Thibodeau (Megan Mullally) and her husband Dr. Gene Thibodeau (Nick Offerman), and they know about the different timelines too. And the Hargreeves and the Umbrella Academy.

I always love it when either Nick Offerman (The Last of Us, Devs) or Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) is in anything. So, having the real-life husband and wife duo be a fictional Gene & Jean duo in The Umbrella Academy season 4 is a treat for me.

Also, the siblings’ father Reginald is now part of the elite as a man overseeing a powerful business empire. Just leading his best life as was his plan all along, it would appear.

In this timeline, there are also new enemies. And, of course, they want to see The Hargreeves wiped from existence. What else is new?! But how do they fight back when they are powerless? And will they ever get their powers back?!

You’ll have to watch season 4 to get those answers.

Season 4 of The Umbrella Academy is on Netflix now

As always, the successful Netflix series The Umbrella Academy is based on the comic series of the same name by Gerard Way. The series was created for television by Steve Blackman and developed by Jeremy Slater.

The Umbrella Academy premiered in 2019 and now five years later, we’re getting this fourth and final season. The three previous seasons all had 10 episodes each, but in season 4, we’ll have to make do with six episodes.

The core cast still consists of Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, and Colm Feore.

Along with the earlier mentioned Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, David Cross also joins the cast in this final season. If you’ve enjoyed the show this far, I’m confident you’ll also be entertained by this final season.

The Umbrella Academy Season 4 is on Netflix from August 8, 2024.

Details

Cast: Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, Colm Feore, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, David Cross

Plot

Six years after the reset, the powerless Hargreeves clan faces a secret society and learns that the greatest threat to the universe… may be themselves.

Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard
Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard
I write reviews and recaps on Heaven of Horror. And yes, it does happen that I find myself screaming, when watching a good horror movie. I love psychological horror, survival horror and kick-ass women. Also, I have a huge soft spot for a good horror-comedy. Oh yeah, and I absolutely HATE when animals are harmed in movies, so I will immediately think less of any movie, where animals are harmed for entertainment (even if the animals are just really good actors). Fortunately, horror doesn't use this nearly as much as comedy. And people assume horror lovers are the messed up ones. Go figure!
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