‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 4 Review: Netflix Superhero Drama Wrecks Its Ending

Despite an enjoyable season, unanswered questions and out-of-character decisions make for a puzzling conclusion to the Elliot Page-led series

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Robert Sheehan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Tom Hopper, Justin H. Min, Aidan Gallagher, Elliot Page, David Castañeda and Ritu Arya in "The Umbrella Academy." (Christos Kalohoridis/Netflix)

For the Hargreeves siblings, the end of the world is getting a little old hat. After all, they’ve thwarted an impending apocalypse every season since “The Umbrella Academy” premiered on Netflix in 2019 (nevermind that they’ve also inadvertently caused all of them), so it makes sense that after sidestepping the kugelblitz at the end of Season 3, they’d be ready for a break.

That’s where we meet them at the beginning of Season 4, which picks up six years after we last saw the dysfunctional family stumble into a new reality where none of them had superpowers. For some, such as Viktor (Elliot Page) and Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), getting to live life as regular humans was a relief.

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