“The End of the Beginning” leans right into those complaints. The world, we’re told midway through the episode, has been on the brink of apocalypse exactly 145,412 times. The existence of the Umbrella Academy is both the cause of and solution to that problem; if Netflix renewed the series for 145,412 seasons, we’d see some version of this cycle play out exactly 145,412 times. But we live in the timeline in which The Umbrella Academyis ending after a mere four seasons. Which raises the question: How, at last, does this cycle end?