Television is very rarely like real life, but one thing they have in common is that endings are always weird and they're always difficult--even when it's time. As weird as Doom Patrol has been at times, this is one thing that it does have in common with so many other shows. The finale is a…

With one episode of Doom Patrol left, I'm realizing that Rita's role in the story is essentially done. This episode is all about the heroes trying to get their longevity back, and it goes as well as you'd expect. Rita is comatose while the series is ending, and it feels pretty weird.  Spoilers follow for Doom Patrol…

Including this episode, we have just three episodes of Doom Patrol left. I'm still hopeful that we'll get a sufficiently weird and heartfelt ending that ranks up there with some of the series' best moments. But this episode leaves me feeling like maybe Season 4 is the right time for the show--at least in this iteration--to…

As a television show continues to produce new episodes, the chances that you'll get a musical episode approach 100%. Everything from the Simpsons to Grey's Anatomy to Batman: The Brave and the Bold have musical episodes. And of course, you can't forget about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that turned the idea into a bonafide…

Exactly nine months. That's how long it's been, as I write this, since Doom Patrol episode 6, which aired on January 5, 2023.  Spoilers follow for Doom Patrol Season 4, Episode 7, "Qrqwith Patrol," and Episode 8, "Fame Patrol." "Orqwith Patrol" and "Fame Patrol" That's really weirdly long time to pause a show in the middle of a…

As we head into the mid-season finale for Doom Patrol, the show gets back to its roots of asking these broken and traumatized people to help each other survive.  Spoilers follow for Doom Patrol Season 4, Episode 6, "Hope Patrol." "Hope Patrol" Doom Patrol is rife with wackiness and the truly bizarre. Like its comic counterpart, Doom…

The thing about being an adult is that you forget how much it sucked to be a kid--all kinds of weird, confusing feelings. When Rita finds her youth slipping away by the hour, a misapplied de-aging spell forces the crew to confront all that stuff at once.  Spoilers follow for Doom Patrol Season 4, Episode 5, "Youth…

The decisions our parents make can impact our futures long after we have our independence. Characters like Batman, Superman, Iron Man, and Spider-Man are all very much about the way our parents can affect us even decades after their death. As weird as Doom Patrol can get, why shouldn't it find a way to cover…

When we look at the past, we always remember it as better than it was. Things get worse and better and change, but when we filter all of our experiences through the lens of who we currently are, the past can start to look so much better it hurts. For the Doom Patrol, the pitfalls…

We don't need to say anymore that Doom Patrol is weird, but I don't think that when the heroes unleashed a bunch of feral butts upon the Bureau of Normalcy toward the end of season 1, we'd still be dealing with them three years later. Butt here we are. "Doom Patrol" & "Butt Patrol" The…