The Umbrella Academy returns to Netflix for its fourth and final season with six episodes instead of the usual ten. Which certainly constricts the space for this reachy, timeline-juggling superhero/fantasy series and its namesake central ensemble, but that should just make their race to the finish that much more thrilling. Created by Steve Blackman and adapted from the comics by Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá, Umbrella Academy has leapt through many versions of time and space with its supersiblings, and even created entirely different sets of rival supersiblings.
But as the concluding season begins, we’re in the wake of a universe reset that robbed the Hargreeves of their powers, and also being introduced to new cast members Megan Mullaly, Nick Offerman, and David Cross. THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY – SEASON 4 : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: SIX. YEARS.
LATER . Introducing us to what goes down in this new timeline are the matching-western-shirted Drs. Jean Thibedeau (Mullaley) and Gene Thibedeau (Offerman).
“You just got euchred, peewee,” Gene tells their opponent at a cards tournament. And it might be his luxurious whiskered mutton chops talking. The Gist: It’s reintroduction time, to the stuttering beat of “The Bad Touch” by Bloodhound Gang.
Viktor (Elliot Page) operates a supper club bar in Nova Scotia, where he breaks all the girls’ hearts. Elsewhere in the northeast, Luther (Tom Hopper) works the lunch buffet crowd as a stripper; appropriately, his stag.