The time for do-overs, creating new realities, and escaping into the past has finally come to an end as The Umbrella Academy concludes the final chapter of its maddening adventures with the recently released fourth season. The Hargreeves siblings—the extraordinary members of the eponymous group—have stuck together through thick and thin, found and lost happiness, doomed and saved the world—and gradually the viewers have come to connect with them in more ways than one. Farewells are tough, and with this bunch of weirdos, it ends up being emotionally painful in more ways than one.

The final moments of the third season saw a new reality being created, where the Hargreeves siblings no longer possessed their superpowers. In the fourth season, future, past, and all the timeline-related troubles culminate in one massive catastrophe in the form of Cleanse, which takes the siblings back to their roots and questions...