The fourth and final season of Steve Blackman’s sci-fi series The Umbrella Academy will drop on Netflix on August 8, the streaming platform has announced on social media, sharing a fresh set of posters featuring the lead cast of the show.
“Hello: February 15, 2019. Goodbye: August 8, 2024. The final season of THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY is coming,” the streamer captioned its post on Instagram on Thursday.
The posters reveal that Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan and Aidan Gallagher will reprise their roles in the upcoming season.
You Hurt My Feelings star David Cross, Will & Grace actress Megan Mullally and The Last of Us actor Nick Offerman will also join the cast, as per a recent press communique by Netflix.
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy premiered on Netflix on February 15, 2019. The show recounts the adventures of an estranged group of siblings with superpowers who are reunited after the death of their adoptive father Sir Reginald Hargreeves. The siblings, constituting the Umbrella Academy, travel to an alternate dimension to save the world from the threat of an imminent apocalypse, discovering along the way that Reginald is alive and has adopted a different group of superheroes.
The third instalment ended with a major plot twist, revealing that the members of the Umbrella Academy have lost their superpowers. Season 4 of The Umbrella Academy will reportedly continue the story from this juncture.
