The Umbrella Academy
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for The Umbrella Academy season 4.
After five years and four seasons,The Umbrella Academyhas taken its final bow.
They manage to save Allison’s daughter and Lila’s family using the strange, timeline-hopping subway.
But when the timeline resets, it’s as though the Umbrella Academy never existed at all.
While tragedies often make for satisfying endings, this isn’t the case withThe Umbrella Academy.
Such a conclusion will also make a rewatch difficult, as it rendersThe Umbrella Academy’s prior seasons pointless.
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No one not even the family members they work so hard to save will remember them.
If they don’t exist, how can their children?
Unfortunately, the way it’s executed misses the mark.
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Lila and Diego’s marriage issues are interesting enough without another party.
The fact that this ruins Diego and Five’s relationship makes matters even worse.
This doesn’t go anywhere, nor does it improve Klaus' arc orThe Umbrella Academy’s ending.
It could easily have been cut, leaving room for the series to explore more interesting narrative threads.
The same can be said of Lila and Diego’s journey through alternate timelines.
Even the flash-forward to the main timeline raises more questions than it answers.
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For example, there’s no explanation as to why the Umbrella Academy’s kids can still exist.
There’s also no telling what the golden flowers mean for the timeline’s future.
However, as they grew older, the siblings grew apart as they dealt with their trauma.
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