Really impressed by some of the casting in this show: Brendan Fraser, Timothy Dalton, Alan Tudyk.

It commits a lot of time to explaining how useless and worthless the characters are as they bumble their way through the plot.

Overall, the show has a vindictive, bleak and juvenile tone to it, while also being somewhat restrained, full of edgy jokes that feel like they've emerged from the pen of a teenager who's afraid to be too edgy lest they offend their mother.

For example, there is "Crazy Jane" whose superpower revolves around her multiple personality disorder who gets to provide the wish fulfilment of doing something like, violently stapling a poster to someone's head, but doesn't have to deal with the moral complexity of that action because it was just her "bitch personality" doing it. In fact, 3 out of the 4 heroes in the original group (all but the protagonist) have superpowers that practically have personalities of their own, therefore justifying a wide range of out-of-character actions on the basis that "their superpower did the bad thing". The bad thing is played for a bit of drama or a joke and then we move on and forget about it because the thing they did wasn't on purpose.

On the matter of vindictiveness, it's a little worrying that the mental illnesses experienced by many of the characters are just framed as character-defining quirks belonging to "losers" and not as, like, genuine mental illnesses in need of professional treatment.

In the end, my experience is that the show is watchable but kind of boring and shallow.

i have come to enjoy this show a whole lot, i like really like Jane the most and even medal face he is funny.

What to say about Doom Patrol? Candidly I couldn't get into it. For me it's extroverted, almost exhibitionist "weirdness" felt overcooked.

Worse still I couldn't see much in the way of an actual story to balance things out. Indeed, I get the impression its trying to sell the oddball main characters as the story, with long winded, rather boring, flash backs in the first episode.

So far disappointing. May watch an episode or two more but I have my reservations about this one. As it stands 4/10.

Wow, DC finally found a way to transform weird into great. The cast is very committed and is rewarded with an awesome performance.

Okay so I tried this show not knowing what to expect and I was pretty happy with the results of what I got there was plenty of adventure and action and even laughs but my only concern is that the show that does contain alot of language sex nudity violence so not the best choice for kiddos but really really good