The third season of “The Umbrella Academy” launched on Netflix last week and seemed to close out in a way that could serve as an ending if needs be.
The series has yet to score a fourth season renewal, but according to showrunner Steve Blackman there’s at least one more season’s worth of stuff to explore with these characters.
He tells The Wrap he has had a four-season plan in place for a while. If they do score a renewal, he says his team’s ideas for a fourth season ‘would be a great ending for the run of the show’. Blackman says:
“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.”
Netflix has been very publicly changing strategies with its content and is quick to axe anything that isn’t a smash hit for them. Despite ‘Umbrella’ sitting on top of the Netflix Top 10 right now, there’s no guarantee a fourth run is coming until the order has been officially handed out.
