June 2022 was a long time ago, but it might feel even longer for Umbrella Academy fans who binged season three in a couple of sittings and then moved on to other pop-culture obsessions. The show is a lot of fun and season three was killer—but it’s been over two years since the Netflix series dropped new episodes. Are you ready to dive into its fourth and final season? We’ve already peeked at the “previously on” montage that kicks off season four, and frankly, it didn’t clear all that much up.
So here’s a crash course in what you need to remember going into season four, which runs just six episodes and premieres August 8 on Netflix. What happened in season 3 of Umbrella Academy ? When Umbrella Academy —based loosely on the Gerard Way-Gabriel Bá Dark Horse Comic series about the super-powered and dysfunctional adopted Hargreeves siblings—kicked off its third season, the main characters were bouncing back from averting an apocalypse at the end of season two. (They did that in season one too.
) Season two involved a lot of time travel, and it ended with the characters in 2019—but in an alternate reality where the Umbrella Academy, here called “the Sparrow Academy,” had mostly different members. One is a still-alive version 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 between the factions (and between the siblings), but also occasional outbursts of t.