Having discovered their future fate, the Doom Patrol is scattered across Doom Manor, each wallowing in their own ways. The decision to give the zombies subtitles last season was funny on its own, but this is the kind of smart, long-play joke that I come to Doom Patrol for. One of the funniest moments come from this meeting, when Clif realizes he can still understand zombie speak. He, it turns out, is still living on that same farm where he’s worked hard to stay away from humans and their tantalizing, delicious brains, and is instead raising heirloom tomatoes. We also meet back up with Darren Jones, (Jon Briddell) the Bureau of Normalcy agent who was bitten by the zombie were-butt last season. She trained them to do a song-and-dance number of the Music Man song “Shipoopi,” which is funny for at least two reasons that I can think of. Before the Patrol unleashed them, the Bureau had brought in an expert to try to communicate with them. While these characters tangle with their metaphorical demons (and probably one or two literal ones), we’re getting background on the butts themselves, which is not something I ever envisioned myself writing. That hardly sounds like a fun way to start a show, but that’s what the butts are for. But right now, all the characters’ sadnesses are out there to see, with each one feeling alone and isolated in their own way. Which is why this works so well for the show, they´re not afraid to go crazier by the minute. That’s been the case throughout the first three seasons, as we’ve watched each of them try to cope with their curses in different ways. Part of what makes Doom Patrol so much fun is that, being unhinged from time, space, and logic, it doesn’t have to adhere to any of the tropes of superheroism and comics–it can do whatever it wants, as long as it works for the characters. Yes, you read that correctly.Įach member of the Doom Patrol is going through it, Cyborg (Joivan Wade) is still trying to figure out who he is without his tech, and feels like he’s been relegated to the Doom Patrol’s backburner as their IT support.Ĭliff (Brendan Fraser), finally, gets a new hand from Silas Stone that has nanites in it that give him the feeling of touch and will likely ultimately begin moving him to his next incarnation in the comics, but he hasn’t experienced touch in decades and is nervous to accept it. But of course, things are always more dysfunctional than they look, especially in Doom Patrol, and soon they end up 20 years in the future after the zombie were-butts that escaped last season overran the world, and just barely make it back home to make plans to stop the Buttpocalypse. Rita (April Bowlby), having somewhat mastered her powers, is currently in charge of the team as they take the time machine around to various instances of metahuman crime. When we meet them again, they’re post-Eternal Flagellation and functioning as something like a superhero team. The Doom Patrol has undergone many changes since we first met them, losing their leader, dying, seeing one of their team members go a full one hundred years into the past, losing abilities, battling sex ghosts–all the standard superhero stuff. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
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