A Look Back at Doom Patrol - Season 3

 

With the fourth season airing the soon with the very last episodes, it's time to look back at season three of Doom Patrol.

Doom Patrol is a streaming TV series, developed by Jeremy Carver for HBO Max. It's produced by Warner Bros. Television, Berlanti Productions, Jeremy Carver Productions, and DC Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution. This season consists of ten episodes.

The story is while the Candlemaker was defeated, the team suffered a great loss. They were once planning to move on with their lives and go their separate ways. But these plans had to change when a time traveler arrives, and sets them on a new path.

• Negatives

The only thing that really dragged this season down was the villains, the Sisterhood of Data. I'm not gonna mince words, they sucked. They were weird, and yes this is a weird show, but they weird in a bad way. They were just noise if anything. And if they weren't that, then they were just boring. So boring it almost felt like whenever they appeared, everything just slowed down.

• Mix

Now this season only had a decent story to it. First let me compliment the good aspects, those being the stories with Cliff and Jane. Cliff has a great story where he truly wants to be a good grandfather to his grandson, but sadly he's dealing with issues of addiction and a possible illness. Meanwhile Jane is essentially having a power struggle story arc with the Underground. Then we have the other stories, Larry's story really wasn't as fleshed out as it should've been, it almost felt like the writers didn't know what to do with him. Then there's Cyborg's story. Maybe it's not my memory working right, but I swear he still has the same daddy issues/"oh no, I have these machine parts, this sucks" story yet again. Then Rita's story sadly just feel apart. It's bad enough it got lumped in with the Sisterhood, but then it seems like she gonna have a good revenge story, then it's ruined by her letting the person she was pursuing join the team. Which means the villain got a redemption arc. People, word of advice, if you're gonna do this kind of story, MAKE. IT. A. PROCESS! Not, villain for a majority, one apology later, redemption.

I'll keep this part brief after such a long spiel, basically the effects continue to be either decent on some parts, and bad on others.

• Positives

There were two saving graces, and those were the performances and humor. While the writing this time wasn't as good, our cast still managed to do a great job. And the humor also helped with those previously mentioned bad or decent parts.

While I didn't hate this season there was still a lot to be desired. Until I see how season four turns out, season three is at the bottom of my rankings list.

My final rating is, Okay.

All done here folks. Come back on Thursday, Oct 12th, for my Classic Film Night review of, Poltergeist. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.