If you have not been watching Doom Patrol, I’m sorry. You’ve been missing out on a lot, as this baffling yet endearing trailer for the show’s final episodes suggests. Michelle Gomez singing “What the fuck?” in fake opera! Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero) giving a pep talk! A whole lot of attack butts! And a dreaded enemy: the loss of longevity!
Superheroes: They’re just like us.
Here’s the synopsis for the final episodes, which are technically the second half of season four:
In the series’ gripping final episodes, the Doom Patrol meet old friends and foes as they race to defeat Immortus and get back their longevities. Battling between saving the world and each other, the Doom Patrol are forced to face their deepest fears and decide if they are ready to let go of the past in order to take their future into their own hands… and away from the zombie butts.
In January, it was announced that season four would be the last season of Doom Patrol, and that the show would get a definite ending—no trailing off into the void for this particular band of oddballs, who got their powers in uniquely traumatizing ways. What could be heavy and ponderous—superhero group as support group, kinda—is instead gonzo, delightful, unexpectedly moving, and unlike any other superhero production of the modern age. And it’s excellently cast: Along with Gomez and Guerrero, Doom Patrol stars Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer, April Bowlby, Joivan Wade, Skye Roberts, Riley Shanahan, Matthew Zuk, and sometimes Timothy Dalton and Alan Tudyk.
Doom comes to Doom Patrol with the final six episodes, beginning October 12th on Max.
This post was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist.
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