The final season of "The Umbrella Academy" will be released in August

Netflix has announced the premiere date for the fourth and final season of "The Umbrella Academy": all six episodes of the show's final chapter will be released on the service on August 8.

Last fall, during Netflix's Geek Week event, the cast of "The Umbrella Academy" revealed that the final season would be a "sexy and wacky" farewell to the characters.

Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, and Elliot Page will play the lead roles in the fourth season. Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and David Cross will also join the main cast in the final chapter. Offerman and Mullally, who are married in real life, will play spouses who work as college professors. Cross will play the role of a meek and moral businessman and family man.

"The Umbrella Academy" is based on Gerard Way's comic book of the same name. The series is about seven siblings with superpowers, who were raised by billionaire Reginald Hargreeve. Years later, the grown-up children are brought back together after not communicating for years: they attend their father's funeral, where they learn that the apocalypse is only a week away.

Add the TV series "The Umbrella Academy" to your list