Doom Patrol

I was expecting a comic book parody; I got something completely different. A series about a very bizarre bunch of "superheroes" and "superheroines" that strives as much for character development as it does for utterly confusing the viewer... and it succeeds at both. I was somewhere around the tenth episode and I was still only beginning to get a sense of where it was all going, what might happen next, who might really be who... it's hard to describe. I had found myself in a similar situation with the Watchmen series, but there I at least had the advantage of knowing the comics and felt a little more confident. In the case of Doom Patrol, absolutely anything could happen, and quite often did. And I enjoyed it an awful lot. (24/06/2020)

My only criticism of the second season of Doom Patrol is that it isn't longer. At least one more episode, because... well, because I'd really like one. This season was the same as the previous one in a lot of ways, but because of the smaller number of episodes and the fact that the series dealt out the cards so well last time, it could have just gone straight to the point and not wasted its time with anything. Like the protagonists, who get his with a whole lot all at once, and the viewer getting along with them. I actually watched a number of scenes in a number of episodes with moist eyes or outright tears, and no joke, I was even afraid of what was coming next. Despite all that though, the show hasn't lost its perspective and hasn't given up on the bizarre nonsense like its sexual ghosts, which is great. And the biggest trump card is of course the character of Dorothy, but I probably don't need to add that. (17/08/2020)