The finale of a hit series was made available to stream on Netflix a few days ago, but fans aren’t happy about it. We tell you why it was so badly received
The Umbrella Academy has delighted many Netflix subscribers with its first three seasons – and I’m definitely one of them. A dysfunctional patchwork family ushers in the apocalypse in an endless loop and then has to save the world again. It’s a vicious circle that’s a hell of a lot of fun. In the final 4th season, however, the fun came to an end for many fans. The press was also at least divided by the Umbrella Academy finale
No. 1 on Netflix disappointed: This enrages fans at The Umbrella Academy ending
A quick look at the world’s largest film and series rating platform IMDb tells a devastating story for the finale of The Umbrella Academy. Every single episode can be rated there. While the first three season finales received a very high to solid rating of between 8.9 and 7.4, the finale is pretty much on the nose with a 4.9 out of 10. Over 1700 people have already cast their votes.
Fans are outraged on all possible platforms and negate season 4: “So sad that Umbrella Academy was canceled after season 3. ”
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– amy (@gregsnders) August 8, 2024
I want to investigate the disaster: What is so upsetting to so many fans? Warning, spoilers follow!
If you search for Umbrella Academy on X and scroll a few meters, you can very quickly identify the biggest points of criticism: Firstly, there’s the love story between Rita and Five, which is seen as unnecessary – many would have liked a happy ending for Rita and Diego. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, because everyone dies in the end anyway.
This leads us to the main freak-out among the followers: Everyone dies. At least all the main characters that we have grown so fond of over the years. Since the world can only function harmoniously without them, they end up shooting themselves out of it. They never existed in the world of The Umbrella Academy, but their children make it into the “real” and final timeline. That makes little sense
There are also other logical errors and missing characters like Sloane, Luther’s wife. She is not mentioned at all in season 4, as if she had never existed. “Worst series finale ever”, writes a (former?) fan on Reddit .
If you think about it longer, the following criticism is probably the one I can relate to best – it’s explained in a fascinating Reddit post: The series was about children who were victims of a tyrannical alien father and who ultimately emancipated themselves from him and freed themselves from his clutches by joining forces. However, the fact that they themselves are the problem in the end, because they simply exist, is a bitter and unfinished message.
Fans had to wait over two years for the final 6 episodes, only to experience this huge disappointment. After its initial success, The Umbrella Academy will probably go down in the inglorious list of the most disappointing series endings
