‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 Ending Explained by Showrunner

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Note: Spoilers for “The Umbrella Academy” Season 3 finale follow below.“The Umbrella Academy” Season 3 packed a lot of story into just 10 episodes, and it all came to a head in the finale, titled “Oblivion.” The ending leaves a number of questions up in the air for a potential Season 4, so we asked showrunner Steve Blackman to break down those twists and turns for us.Episode 10 finds 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 (who, we musn’t forget, is also an alien) 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.