What the Heck Happened at the End of Umbrella Academy Season 3?

June 2022 was a agelong clip ago, but it mightiness consciousness adjacent longer for Umbrella Academy fans who binged season three successful a mates of sittings and past moved connected to different pop-culture obsessions. The amusement is simply a batch of amusive and play 3 was killer—but it’s been implicit 2 years since the Netflix bid dropped caller episodes. Are you acceptable to dive into its fourth and final season?

We’ve already peeked astatine the “previously on” montage that kicks disconnected play four, and frankly, it didn’t wide each that overmuch up. So here’s a clang people successful what you request to retrieve going into play four, which runs conscionable six episodes and premieres August 8 connected Netflix.

What happened successful play 3 of Umbrella Academy?

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When Umbrella Academy—based loosely connected the Gerard Way-Gabriel Bá Dark Horse Comic bid astir the super-powered and dysfunctional adopted Hargreeves siblings—kicked disconnected its 3rd season, the main characters were bouncing backmost from averting an apocalypse astatine the extremity of play two. (They did that successful play 1 too.) Season 2 progressive a batch of clip travel, and it ended with the characters successful 2019—but successful an alternate world wherever the Umbrella Academy, present called “the Sparrow Academy,” had mostly antithetic members. One is simply a still-alive mentation of their deceased sibling, Ben (Justin H. Min).

There’s instant hostility, and the Umbrella kids decamp to the quirky Hotel Obsidian. There are fights betwixt the factions (and betwixt the siblings), but besides occasional outbursts of teamwork—and adjacent a romance betwixt Umbrella Luther (Tom Hopper) and Sparrow Sloane (Genesis Rodriguez). Throughout the season, characters grapple with the fallout of their clip travel, some connected a idiosyncratic level (problematically, each of the Umbrella kids’ mothers died earlier they were calved successful this peculiar timeline) and connected a much “the beingness is freaking retired owed to each the anomalies” level, acknowledgment to a almighty Kugelblitz successful their midst.

Notably, Umbrella Academy play 3 addressed starring histrion Elliot Page’s coming retired arsenic a trangender antheral by simply having his character, Viktor, travel the aforesaid path; it was handled seamlessly wrong the story. The play besides saw Klaus (Robert Sheehan) dying and returning to life, repeatedly; Five (Aidan Gallagher) gathering an older mentation of himself; Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) astir succumbing to the grief of losing her girl from the play 2 time-travel story; and Lila (Ritu Arya) and Diego (David Castañeda) astir figuring retired however to beryllium co-parents.

Throughout the season, there’s a increasing consciousness that Umbrella/Sparrow patriarch Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore)—who’s really an extraterrestrial being of chartless property from different dimension—is up to nary good, adjacent much than usual. It’s each tied into the Hotel Obsidian, the mounting for Luther and Sloane’s wedding and wherever each the surviving characters stitchery arsenic the Kugelblitz begins decimating world astir them.

What happened astatine the extremity of Umbrella Academy play 3?

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Reginald revealed that the Hotel Obsidian is truly a instrumentality successful different dimension, built by whoever created the universe, and couching a portal that volition reset that universe; there’s a mirror-image edifice called the Hotel Oblivion connected the different side. The Hargreeves person to enactment unneurotic to fig retired the machine’s elaborate puzzle, which (in emblematic fashion) is simply a trying task. At last, though, Allison manages to seemingly termination Reginald, who’s draining the super-powered beingness unit from his “children” to powerfulness the machine, and commencement the reset process.

At the precise extremity of play three, we spot that Allison’s girl and her hubby from play 2 are alive—as is Reginald, on with his long-deceased woman Abigail, who are bigwigs successful this brand-new timeline. While different characters are restored to wellness (Five, who’d mislaid an limb on the way, is present healed), Luther is distraught to recognize that Sloane, his caller wife, is missing. Also: cipher has their superpowers anymore. Most are wholly freaked out, and each scamper successful antithetic directions. In a mid-credits scene, we spot Ben—the lone remaining Sparrow—on a bid successful South Korea—perhaps the aforesaid bid wherever helium was shown being calved successful a flashback astatine the commencement of play three.

What’s play 4 of Umbrella Academy going to beryllium about?

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Here’s the connection from Netflix: “The Hargreeves siblings person scattered aft the climactic showdown astatine the Hotel Oblivion led to a implicit reset of their timeline. Stripped of their powers, each is near to fend for themselves and find a caller normal—with wildly varying degrees of success. Yet the trappings of their uncanny caller satellite beryllium excessively hard to disregard for precise long. Their begetter Reginald, live and well, has stepped retired of the shadows and into the nationalist eye, overseeing a almighty and nefarious concern empire.

A mysterious relation known arsenic the Keepers holds clandestine meetings believing the world they’re surviving successful is simply a prevarication and a large reckoning is coming. As these unusual caller forces conspire astir them, the Umbrella Academy indispensable travel unneurotic 1 past time—and hazard upsetting the shaky bid they’ve each endured truthful overmuch to secure—to yet acceptable things right.” New characters this play volition beryllium played by Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and David Cross.

When tin I ticker play 4 of Umbrella Academy?

All six episodes get August 8 connected Netflix.

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