Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and more weigh in on stopping the apocalypse once and for all.
TheUmbrella Academyis done saving the world.
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It turns out that the creation of the Umbrella Academy was the problem all along.
Abigail Hargreeves (Liisa Repo-Martell) created a synthetic element called Marigold on the Hargreeves' original planet.
When the two elements interacted, it destroyed the Hargreeves' world and Abigail along with it.
Thats going to keep happening until someone ends it."
They died being dissolved by molten goo, but they died together as a united group.
I think he wanted to save [us] the heartbreak.
“This could have gone so many different directions.
We were halfway through filming when I was like, I think were all going to die.
Thats the only way out of this mess is that we arent here.
It makes sense for the show.
It feels like the proper ending that they all got to be together.”
“I felt the same.
It just made sense,” added co-star Elliot Page.
It’s a bittersweet ending for the show, and it didn’t come without tears.
“Theres something quite spiritually freeing about it, going Oh no, we are in fact the problem.
so that set us and everyone else free, we have to sacrifice ourselves.
It is the complete opposite.”
And the audience does get to see the fruits of this giant sacrifice.
“That feels right,” he said of the ending.
The Umbrella Academy is now streaming on Netflix.
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