This article contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy on Netflix. No matter how dysfunctional, family has always been central to The Umbrella Academy. The Hargreeves siblings' story comes full circle in the series finale when they collectively realize their very existence is the source of each apocalyptic scenario in which they continue to find themselves.
No matter how many times they save the world, it is doomed to end in a different but equally deadly manner. While a multiverse often doubles as a get-out-of-jail-free card to bring characters back to life, The Umbrella Academy shatters its seemingly infinite timelines to ensure the line stops here. Like the characters at the center of this adventure, the concluding episode is flawed but ultimately rewarding.
After The Umbrella Academy picked up its final six episodes from where the last season left off, it quickly flashes forward five years. The siblings no longer have superpowers (though it doesn't take long to get them back), and a different version of their adoptive father, Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), is a dominant force in this new reality. It's the same old, same old, with one big difference: Abigail Hargreeves (Liisa Repo-Martell) is alive and kicking, and has been masterminding the end of the world.
Revealing Abigail as the one who synthesized the power-giving marigold and the durango that sets off this chain reaction shows her desperate desire to unravel her invention and taps into the self-sacrifice motif t.