I think there’s a core that could have worked. I don’t really understand what Doom Patrol is going for here. Alan Tudyk’s villain character breaks the fourth wall constantly (including one line about viewers leaving after the donkey stuff), but it just falls flat. “Wacky,” sure, but it’s not even a fun kind of nonsense. The plotline is incomprehensible, involving a donkey swallowing people and transporting them to new dimensions. It tries to be funny without ever actually being funny. There is a way to make dark and edgy work, as we’ve seen with Titans.ĭoom Patrol tries to combine all these things together in a soupy mess that just does not work at a fundamental level. There is a way to make a trippy mind-bending storylines work, as we’ve seen with Legion. There is a way to make a screwball superhero comedy work, as we’ve seen with Deadpool. But it just does not work onscreen here despite this cast. The idea of a “misfit band of superheroes” is nothing new, and I know Doom Patrol is old, very old (as in like, the ‘60s), in the comic world so perhaps it was even the first. This show is…trying things, I’ll give it that.
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