What exactly happened in the ending of The Umbrella Academy’s Season 3? We have everything you need to know about it.
The Umbrella Academy’s Season 3 was another round of saving the world, but this time the approach – and stakes – were a little different. But did they successfully reset the universe or just make things worse? Let’s dive into the details.
Season 3 packed a lot of story into just 10 episodes, and it all came to a head in the finale, titled “Oblivion.” Episode 10 found the Umbrella Academy members entering into Hotel Oblivion just as the world is being consumed by the Kugelblitz (i.e. another apocalypse). We learn that getting into Oblivion and unlocking its secrets has been Reginald Hargreeves’ (Colm Feore) plan all along, making it seem all the more calculated and cold that he murdered Luther (Tom Hopper) and left Klaus (Robert Sheehan) to die just to make it to Oblivion.
Oblivion, as it turns out, is a pocket universe of sorts that itself hides a key to resetting the entire universe. Towards the end of the episode, Hargreeves has the bulk of the Umbrella Academy members (plus Lila, Ben and Sloane) serving as batteries of sorts to power up a device that will reset the universe.
With her family dying, Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) takes action and stabs Hargreeves in the head, killing him. But she is transfixed by the idea of hitting a reset button in order to get her daughter and husband back, so she hits the button despite protests from Viktor (Elliot Page) and others.
We then cut to the characters (minus Sloane) exiting out of an elevator into the space where the Umbrella (or Sparrow) Academy should be, but it’s empty save for a garden and statue noting it was donated by one Reginald Hargreeves. The reset button appears to have worked. However, that was not all. The characters also now find themselves without their powers.
Excited at the opportunity to discover themselves, they split off one by one, and the camera then zooms through the city to reveal that Hargreeves has amassed a grand business empire, until we find him atop a tower with his wife. The ending gave rise to plenty of questions, and the showrunner Steve Blackman was ready to answer what kind of world the characters just stepped into.
What did the showrunner have to say about the ending of Umbrella Academy Season 3?
Blackman addressed everything that happened in the season finale and much more.
“I think the better way to see it [the ending], without giving too much away, is Reggie Hargreeves didn’t get to quite finish his reprogramming of the universe before he was hit over the head by Allison, who’s finally decided to choose her family over him,” Blackman told TheWrap in 2022. “And in that moment, she has no idea what pressing a button does. She just knows that, in a conversation that we haven’t seen but is alluded to, Hargreeves has made promises to her which is, ‘I will give you back your daughter and your husband. I will do that, but you have to work with me.’”
Blackman stressed that while the universe has been reset, it may not exactly be to the specifications that Hargreeves was looking for since he was killed before he finished his work, and that’s something Blackman hopes to tackle in a potential Season 4.
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