Netflix is ending one of my favourite shows... but it's actually a good thing

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Colm Feore as Reginald Hargreeves in episode 301 of The Umbrella Academy

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Netflixhas announced that The Umbrella Academy will return for a fourth and final season before ending the show for good.

The superhero show premiered its third season in June this year, debuting at the number one spot on Netflix’s English-language TV weekly rankings at 125.5 million hours viewed. It then remained within the top 10 ranking for five weeks across the streaming platform.

Blackman will return as showrunner and executive producer for the final season, with the main cast all expected to return too. Blackman is also working on theHorizon TV seriesthat Netflix andSonypartnered for earlier this year.

“I’m so excited that the incredibly loyal fans of The Umbrella Academy will be able to experience the fitting end to the Hargreeves siblings’ journey we began five years ago,” said the showrunner. “But before we get to that conclusion, we’ve got an amazing story ahead for season four, one that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the final minutes.”

Since it first premiered in February 2019, The Umbrella Academy has become one of my personal favourite shows on Netflix, delivering three strong seasons that go places you wouldn’t expect. It’s a refreshing take on the superhero genre – likeThe Boys– except not as gory but still quite weird, and I love it for that.

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While any show coming to an end is sad, I’m just pleased the show is getting a proper send off, instead of beingabruptly cancelledlike so many Netflix shows have been this year. Not prolonging The Umbrella Academy for the sake of it is also smart. Four seasons is more than enough. I wouldn’t want to see it go on for six or eight. Four solid seasons and out sounds perfect to me. The Umbrella Academy has some brilliant originality to it and I’m confident the show will stick the landing, giving fans a fitting conclusion.

The Umbrella Academy stars Elliot Page, Aidan Gallagher, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya and Colm Feore. All three seasons are now available to stream on Netflix.

Speaking of shows coming to an end, Netflix most recentlycancelled its Resident Evil seriesonly two months after the video game adaption arrived on the platform.

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