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The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Update: Ep Titles, Directors & Writers

With 2024 bringing the final, six-episode season, here's a look at what we know so far about The Umbrella Academy Season 4 episodes.

It's been two months since we last got a major update on Netflix's series adaptation of Gerard Way & Gabriel Bá's The Umbrella Academy when Geeked Week 2023 offered us a very cool key art poster with a ton of clues (more on that below). along with that, we also had a chance to check out the cast reuniting for a read-thru that was a punch to our "feels" on a number of levels. But now we've reached 2024, meaning that our radar is finely tuned for any Hargreeves-related news – and what better way to officially start our coverage than with a look back at what we know about the six episodes so far in terms of titles, directors, and writers.

Thanks to the WGA & DGA websites – as well as the fine folks over at What's On Netflix as well as social media updates from the show's production team – we have the following breakdown of the fourth & final season's episodes (including known titles, writers & directors). Just two quick notes: "The Squid and the Girl," "The Cleanse," "Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days," and "Jean and Gene" are episode titles that are in play but haven't been matched up with episode numbers yet – and all of this comes with a huge asterisk next to it until it's made official:

S04E01: "The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want" (Writers: Steve Blackman and Jesse McKeown; Director: Jeremy Webb)

S04E02: TBD (Story by : Molly Nussbaum & Robert Askins and Jesse McKeown; Teleplay by : Molly Nussbaum & Robert Askins; Director: Jeremy Webb)

S04E03: TBD (Writer: Aeryn Michelle Williams and Elizabeth Padden; Director: Paco Cabezas)

S04E04: TBD (Writer: Lauren Otero and Thomas Page McBee; Director: Paco Cabezas)

S04E05: TBD (Story by: Robert Askins & Christopher High and Jesse McKeown & Andrew Raab; Teleplay by: Jesse McKeown and Andrew Raab; Director: Neville Kid)

S04E06: "End of the Beginning" (Writer: Steve Blackman; Director: Paco Cabezas)

The Umbrella Academy: Steve Blackman Previews Final Season

It was early in 2023 when showrunner & executive producer Steve Blackman signaled that the last line of the series finale (S04E06: "End of the Beginning" – directed by Paco Cabezas and written by Blackman) had been written. Meaning that we now knew the titles of the season's bookend episodes (with the final season kicking off with S04E01: "The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want," written by Blackman & Jesse McKeown). Following that, Blackman shared a look at a storyboard that included the caption, "Power. Unhinged." As for the storyboard, it appeared to show a character unleashing some serious power – but who? Also, are we sure that it's the same person? We're leaning that way – but something about the bottom image vibes differently from the one above it:

Netflix's The Umbrella Academy Season 3 stars Tom Hopper as Luther aka Spaceboy aka Number One, David Castañeda as Diego aka The Kraken aka Number Two, Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison aka The Rumor aka Number Three, Robert Sheehan as Klaus aka The Séance aka Number Four, Aidan Gallagher as Five aka The Boy, Justin H. Min as Ben aka The Horror aka Number Six/Ben aka Sparrow Number 2, Elliot Page as Viktor aka The White Violin aka Number Seven, Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves, and Ritu Arya as Lila. And speaking of the Sparrow Academy, we also have Justin Cornwell as Marcus aka Number One, Britne Oldford as Fei aka Number Three, Jake Epstein as Alphonso aka Number Four, Genesis Rodriguez as Sloane aka Number Five, Cazzie David as Jayme aka Number Six, and Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube as Christopher aka Number Seven. In addition, Javon Walton (Euphoria, Utopia) has joined the cast in an undisclosed role. And (of course) Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves.

Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), Nick Offerman (The Last of Us), and David Cross (Mr. Show) have also joined the cast of the final season. Offerman and Mullally will star as Drs. Gene and Jean Thibedeau – "a married pair of community college professors from New Mexico who wear sensible footwear and suffer from the most extreme case of deja vu this timeline has ever seen." Cross' Sy Grossman is "an upstanding, shy business owner and family man desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter, who will stop at nothing to get her back." All three characters are original to the streaming series. Created for television by showrunner Steve Blackman, the series is executive produced by Blackman, director Jeff F. King, Keith Goldberg, Mike Richardson & Jeremy Webb (S03E01), with Way & Bá as co-executive producers and Steve Wakefield producing (301-307). UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, produces for Netflix.

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