A Look Back at Doom Patrol - Season 2

 

With season 3 of Doom Patrol arriving on HBO Max in three days, it's time to look back at the second season of the show.

Doom Patrol is a streaming tv series created by Jeremy Carver for both the DC Universe app and HBO Max. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television, Berlanti Productions, Jeremy Carver Productions, DC Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution. This season consist of nine episodes.

The story is Nile's daughter Dorothy is now living with the Doom Patrol. The team is not in a good place right now after the shocking revelations from last season, because of this they all have their own issues to sort out. But there may be a bigger problem at hand when Dorothy's powers may possibly unleash an unspeakable and powerful entity known as the Candlemaker.

• Negatives

I've got nothing to say. Let's move on.

• Mix

One thing I'm mixed is once again it's the special effects. Again, I understand because they've got a tv budget, so of course things aren't going to look their best. Now, that's not to say all of it looks bad, there are times when the CGI looks good and you don't mind that it's not something practical.

Another thing I'm a little bit mixed is the number of episodes. I kind felt like there just could've been one more episode to this season, however what I got was good enough. So I didn't mind that this season had less episodes than the last one.

• Positives

Now to get into the positives one of those being the humor. Once again we get a lot of hilarious moments. Moments that make both laugh and go "what the f*ck". And much like last season, what especially made those more funnier moments go was the felt appropriate at the time they were at. The humor by no means ruins the more dramatic moments, it's there when it's needed.

What was also go about this season was once again we got spectacular performances. Our regular cast those being Brendan Fraser, Matt Bomer, Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby, and Jovian Wade they all do an amazing job being there characters and really nailing the parts where they're gonna be fleshed out. The other performances I enjoyed was between Timothy Dalton (as Niles Caulder) and Abi Monterey (as Dorothy). Seeing them play this father and daughter duo was great, they could both really be dramatic and at the same time give some very sweet moments.

Another thing that made this season worth watching was the Candlemaker. It's got everything you want in a villain. A creepy look, a very horrifying personality, and a very scary voice. I can't go into detail because it's spoiler territory (yes, I know this season has been out for over a year now, but still), all I will say it's a pretty good bad guy, and I liked him just as much as I liked Mr. Nobody.

The other aspect that made season two good was the character development. Just when I thought we couldn't get any more the writers once again flesh out the characters both new and old. We get to learn my about the past such as more backstory for Larry and Jane, we get to see how Cliff is going to handle the revelations about his daughter, who Dorothy is and why Niles is always treating like she's made out of glass, and so forth.

Doom Patrol - Season 2 was really good. The good definitely out weights the more mix bag of things, what with great humor, amazing performances, a great villain, and character development that could rival the first season. The gray areas are the special effects and they feeling that maybe there could've been one if not two more episodes, but you can blow off that feeling if I'm honest.

My final rating is Great.

Okay, that's going to do it for me. Come back on Thursday, Sept 23rd for part two the Road to Ghostbusters: Afterlife with my review of Ghostbusters II. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.