'Doom Patrol', third season: the best and most successful DC experiment

The HBO series Doom Patrol began as an exercise in imagination. Adapting one of the strangest comics in the franchise – the so-called Justice League reverse – isn’t easy. And it was not from the first chapters, which presented a tour of characters who “never asked for their powers.” The premise included, of course, a tour of a rare region of the superhero world.

The Doom Patrol decided to take the route contrary and present characters as disconcerting as painfully human . From Robot Man (Brendan Fraser), Negative Man (Matt Bomer), to the fateful cuteness of Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero). The entire series seems constructed to analyze exclusion with deliberate interest when power is nothing more than a form of marginalization.

A complicated concept for an apparently simple series that ends up being much more elaborate than might be supposed. Knowing the origin stories of each of them was an exciting journey, but one that seemed to find no meaning . Do we move through the often grueling personal stories of each character? We were heading for a collective redemption?

Doom Patrol did not seem to have it entirely clear and perhaps that is why the importance of this third season created and conceived to conclude threads. Also to analyze from a new point of view the condition of power and its influence on these heroes by accident. For better or for worse it was time to rejoin normal life . But in addition to an exciting evolution for the plot, it is a necessary twist to give the program a second wind.

‘Doom Patrol’, a journey through the old and new times

In the first three episodes of the new season, Doom Patrol is determined that each of her characters have a special journey towards redemption. Or at least start walking it. Showrunner Jeremy Carver, charged with keeping Supernatural alive against all odds, finds in Doom Patrol the opportunity to experience . A vision on power that changes as the series grows more sensitive, cryptic and dense.

Did change the Doom Patrol its plot center from a huge heart with great stories paired with each other? On the contrary, the sensitivity with which the script analyzes its characters is more eloquent than ever. But if the aches and pains of the team could be understood as a whole, for the third season there is room for something new. It is a context, a team adventure . If before it was a way of going through disparate stories, now it is on the right foot towards something new.

The newest element of season three of Doom Patrol is the arrival of Madame Rouge (Michelle Gomez). The character seems specially created to bring chaos wherever he goes. And how could it be different in a year of time travel and multiverse jumps, Doom Patrol also travels in the weather.

Only Madame Rouge has forgotten who she is – which would be serious enough – and also, what is it supposed to or can it do. The eventuality puts the character at the center of a drama that could be ridiculous and even hilarious. But in Doom Patrol has a sense of the absurd that sustains the plot in a formidable way.

The idea of ​​a villain? without identity and without purpose, but with all the weapons – and bad intention – to attack, is an ingenious and well-planned element . Especially in a show that focuses on the quality of analyzing the dark pages of DC in search of little-known characters but with a clear plot weight.

If in Suicide Squad , James Gunn found all kinds of twisted and quarrelsome figures, Doom Patrol plays with nuances. From Garguax, Dead Boy Detectives and Brotherhood of Dada, the series has managed to create a general context for surprise. A point in favor of the approach to the new season.

The new season of the HBO series is so far a combination of its highest points and the obvious intention of giving I move on to more unique subplots. As Cliff Steele struggles to win back his daughter’s affection to the inexplicable space of Garguax. Everything in Doom Patrol is designed so that the plot has the absolute – sometimes disturbing – ease of going to specific topics to other insane ones.

The third season is more daring than the previous ones. With its air of a Series B genre program and its almost elemental need to be an unknown , the series plays with its references. He does so from Carver’s opportunity to abide by nothing other than the condition of moving pieces on a plot board in an apparently out of order. DC seems more convinced than ever to create something that surpasses any superhero line they have made thus far. And he does it with a sagacity that surprises for his good work.

With everything, Doom Patrol He already counted three essential things. There will be new and old acquaintances to contend with. The fun will be darker and there is a secret in the middle of the fear. All by the old way of telling superhero stories with no other reason to be than to have obtained power. Perhaps the best asset that can take advantage of a story without great ambitions, but with all the imagination necessary to create something new. And achieve it.