Is normality coming for the Hargreeves siblings? Things got very, very weird at the end of The Umbrella Academy’s third season—which is par for the course where these folks are concerned, but still: This new timeline is a huge shift for the gang. No powers? No powers.
But still a lot of “madness and chaos,” as showrunner Steven Blackman said. And a trippy subway map?
Here’s the synopsis:
The Hargreeves siblings have scattered after the climactic showdown at the Hotel Oblivion led to a complete reset of their timeline. Stripped of their powers, each is left to fend for themselves and find a new normal — with wildly varying degrees of success. Yet the trappings of their uncanny new world prove too hard to ignore for very long. Their father Reginald, alive and well, has stepped out of the shadows and into the public eye, overseeing a powerful and nefarious business empire. A mysterious association known as The Keepers holds clandestine meetings believing the reality they’re living in is a lie and a great reckoning is coming. As these strange new forces conspire around them, the Umbrella Academy must come together one last time — and risk upsetting the shaky peace they’ve all endured so much to secure — to finally set things right.
Their powerless state clearly doesn’t last too long; most of the siblings eventually use their abilities in this too-brief trailer, which very wisely uses only instrumental bits of Europe’s “The Final Countdown” (we know, we know). It’s perfectly in keeping with the series’ frequent use of ’80s jams, starting all the way back in season one with that excellent “I Think We’re Alone Now” sequence.
Season four brings in three new characters played by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, and David Cross; at Tudum, you can peek at a page from the first-episode script, which finds Mullally and Offerman’s characters making a wild deal for a tape of a movie Alison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) starred in. The rest of the cast includes, of course, Elliot Page as Viktor, Tom Hopper as Luther, David Castañeda as Diego, Robert Sheehan as Klaus, Aidan Gallagher as Five, Justin H. Min as Ben (a couple of Bens, really), Ritu Arya as Lila, and Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves.
The Umbrella Academy’s last season premieres August 8th on Netflix.
