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DiscussionAnyone else just shocked at season 4 of Umbrella Academy
Posted August 12, 2024 by ToNorth in Television

On the previous post about this I commented that I would just watch clips and summaries but WOW, wow, WOOOOOW. Wtf was that lmfao???

Holy hell I gave up on this show in season 3 and the writing for that was already shit to me. But what in the world was this.... Are showrunners just incapable of finishing a show in a decent way anymore?? Why does it always end in a fantastically cartoonishly bad manner nowadays.

I found a lot happened behind the scenes that led to this, mainly the Netflix problem. They barely wanted to greenlight season 4 and cut down the 10 episodes to 6 as well as the budget but damn. I think a lot of people walked into this show hoping for fantastical messed up family dynamics and shenanigans. And it just kept refusing to give us that. Like any time the siblings got close they were torn apart again, for nothing.

Some of the plot points whew boy, so basically as soon as Fives actor hit legal age, they put him together with Lila's actor(and they had VIBES from season 3, when he was still a minor, intentionally apparently). Like I get narrative but this was straight weird on the showrunners part.

And then them all turning into marigolds....literal marigolds, like the flower. That's the ending.For what. So at the end the conclusion to family trauma and trauma in general is kill yourselves? World is better off without you?? Lol. Thank god I haven't been emotionally invested in this show for yrs. Like woop the people are def upset about this one, as they should be, but most of us saw the writing on the wall at the end of season 2.

This was some crazy shit ngl, I can't believe they really put this out there.

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