Creators:
Jeremy CarverCast:
Matt Bomer, April Bowlby, Timothy Dalton, Brendan Fraser, Diane Guerrero, Riley Shanahan, Alan Tudyk, Joivan Wade, Matthew Zuk, Bruno Bichir, Dwain Murphy (more)VOD (1)
Seasons(4) / Episodes(46)
Plots(1)
Doom Patrol reimagines one of DC's most beloved groups of Super Heroes: Robotman aka Cliff Steele (Brendan Fraser), Negative Man aka Larry Trainor (Matt Bomer), Elasti-Woman aka Rita Farr (April Bowlby) and Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), led by modern-day mad scientist Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton). Each member of the Doom Patrol suffered a horrible accident that gave them superhuman abilities, but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found their purpose through The Chief, coming together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence. Following the mysterious disappearance of The Chief these reluctant heroes will find themselves in a place they never expected to be, called to action by none other than Cyborg (Joivan Wade), who comes to them with a mission hard to refuse. Part support group, part Super Hero team, the Doom Patrol is a band of superpowered freaks who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them. Based on the characters created for DC by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
(more)Reviews of this series by the user NinadeL (2)
Doom Patrol (2019)
I wasn't interested in the Titans series, but I tried this one after long hesitation and I don't feel good about combining these two ideas. However, as a standalone project, Doom Patrol is nicely bizarre. It's got a bit of Frankenstein and 1950s Hollywood to it, so it's not all that foreign to me.
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Season 1 (2019) (S01)
Yes, Cyborg is really the last DC character I would follow in any medium. Yet the adventures of the robotic Brendan Fraser and his nightmare-derived idea buddies have something going for them. The various strange experiments conducted by the evil Nazi are reminiscent of Hellboy, while the problems of Rita Farr, aka Elasti-Woman, are very entertaining. So, when you no longer care and when you're done with the golden age, Doom Patrol will be there waiting for you. In terms of the acting, I'm very happy with Matt Bomer, a veteran of Glee, The Last Tycoon, and the later American Horror Story series. What is positive is the shortening of the planned 2nd season by five episodes, because that's exactly how long this first one would need to be really good.
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