Warning! This post contains spoilers for the ending of Season Three of The Umbrella Academy. Do not read further if you don’t wish to be spoiled.
At the end of Season Three of the Netflix show, we saw the Hargreeves once again in a new reality. This timeline, however, sees them without powers, something that showrunner Steven Blackman told Entertainment Weekly will be a throughline of the upcoming final episodes.
“The first place I started with Season Four was: What happens if you were once a superhero and then suddenly you’re not?” he told Entertainment Weekly. “What does that do to you? Not only as an individual, but what is the family dynamic when suddenly they find themselves normal? I think it’s a challenge for all of them. What might’ve brought them together initially is the fact that, as a dysfunctional family, they found some connection in their abilities. With those superpowers stripped away, who are they as a family?”
Blackman also said that Viktor, played by Elliot Page, will be the one who adjusts best to the new state of affairs. “Viktor is probably the one sibling who is most comfortable in his skin in Season Four,” he said. “He’s doing better than any of the other siblings in terms of adjusting to his new life. He’s the most accepting of their new reality.”
The showrunner also teased that Season Four will be full of “madness and chaos,” and that the end of the third season gives a clue as to what we’ll see in the upcoming episodes.
“Fans may remember that at the end of Season Three, Hargreeves wasn’t able to finish programming the Universe Machine, and Allison still pressed the button anyway,” Blackman said. “So we’re definitely in an altered version of our now. We’re back to the time period they’ve always wanted to get back to! At least they start in the right year, but we know that something isn’t right. My little teaser is clearly Hargreeves didn’t finish what he needed to do before Allison pressed the button, so that is going to have repercussions to their timeline.”
The fourth and final season of The Umbrella Academy starts streaming on Netflix on August 8, 2024.
