The Umbrella Academy

Save this article to read it later.

Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.

From the very beginning, the heroes ofThe Umbrella Academyhave spent every season finale fending off the apocalypse.

Article image

What The End of the Beginning presupposes is … what if they didnt?

Cleverly, The End of the Beginning leans right into those complaints.

But we live in the timeline in whichThe Umbrella Academyis ending after a mere four seasons.

Which raises the question: How, at last, does this cycle end?

Reginald is skeptical but willing to give Viktors strategy a chance before he sends the snipers in.

Abigail is here to see to it that happens.

That leaves us with the Umbrellas, who are hardly a unanimous vote.

Ben is losing himself to the Cleanse but pops throughjustoften enough to stop Allison from delivering a killing blow.

Diego, having learned of Five and Lilas love affair, is more interested in fighting Five.

Viktor is still looking for the needle-in-a-haystack solution that will somehow save everyone.

Ill be honest: So was I.

And it wont stop unless all of them are gone.

Fair enough: For this family, the line between the two sentiments has always been very thin.

You might say it was just a normal day.

In the season we got, Sloane is barely even mentioned.

Another annoying lingering question left dangling by the shows end: Who were theothersuperpowered children?

The subtitles describe Muses Map of the Problematique as entrancing prog-rock which, yeah, thats about right.

One last round of Baby Shark, which somehow remains funny.