THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Showrunner Says the Series May End With Season 4

The third season of The Umbrella Academy has been out for just over a week, and after almost a two year wait, fans are glad to have it back. The show follows the titled academy of “siblings,” a group of people born on the same day to young mothers who were not pregnant when the day began. This led a wealthy weirdo named Reginald Hargreeves to adopt as many of the children as he could and begin a superhero academy.

Since then, the group has gone through some major growing pains, and has had to stop the world from ending a handful of times, with various consequences. Now, we are hoping for more seasons, and the series showrunner, Steve Blackman, gave TheWrap an update on its future:

“I think inevitably if we got a Season 4, it’s going towards an endgame. I think at a certain point, I’m not sure where we’d go after Season 4. We have to be careful. My plan for next year is not to continually tread on the same ground we have before. It’s a challenge to come up with a new way to subvert this storyline, and I think we have an idea how to do that. But I think if we got to Season 4, it would be a great ending for the run of the show. I’m not saying I couldn’t do more, but you know, I think that would be very satisfying for the audience, four seasons.”

The showrunner added that he’s already pitched his Umbrella Academy Season 4 plan to Netflix, saying he’s known the four-season story for some time now. It’s smart for a show to go out on top, and it’s smart for creators to not drag out their ending, as it would be devastating to get canceled before a show could finish telling its story. I have hated when that has happened to other great series. I hope that The Umbrella Academy will be able to tell all the story it’s meant to, as it’s such a fun and well-written show.

How many more seasons would you like to see of The Umbrella Academy?