They’re back on the clock. In the show’s final season, the troubled siblings of The Umbrella Academy have a very small amount of time to save the world. Forty-eight hours? Nah. Maybe just 24. And it all comes down to Ben (Justin H. Min)—or, as Dr. Gene Thibedeau (Nick Offerman) puts it, “The tentacle boy is key to understanding all the timelines!”
The tentacle boy seems to be key to a lot, and at the center of one big secret: What did happen to Ben? The original Ben, I mean, who was dead in the original timeline. (Now there’s another Ben from another timeline. Just go with it.) They failed as a team, but then what? Weirdly, problematically, no one seems to remember. Probably no big deal, right?
Here’s the synopsis, which seems barely to touch what happens in the trailer (Santa Claus with guns? Luther stripping? What in the world?):
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.
The Umbrella Academy stars Eliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castaneda, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, and Colm Feore; this season also features Offerman, Megan Mullally, and David Cross.
The final season of The Umbrella Academy, which is based on the comics by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba, arrives August 8th on Netflix. There are, tragically, only six episodes this time.
