Michelle Gomez Boards 3rd ‘Doom Patrol’ Season
The DC Universe streaming service and HBO Max worked through the second season of the property this past summer but the season was cut short by an episode due to the pandemic. That made it feel like it was a lock for a third season but if 2020 has taught us anything, don’t count on anything. So it was welcome news that as part of the second DC FanDome, HBO Max revealed that it has picked up the third season of the series and that it’ll be exclusive to the service. It’s expected to have a 2021 return.
The Doom Patrol is getting weirder in season 3.
Former Doctor Who and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Michelle Gomez will join the series for its third season as longtime Patrol foe, Madame Rogue, which promises to add more wild turns to an already fantastic series.
What is The Doom Patrol?
Debuting in 1963, the Doom Patrol is a bizarre group of misfits joined together to save the world from threats no other team can handle (or even know exist).
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The comic plays on the Patrol being outsiders to the DCU, including killed off for a time.
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The past decade has been a golden age for children’s animated television, and
Adventure Time led the charge. Starting life as a cute but seemingly inessential fantasy about a candy kingdom, a bubblegum princess, a boy named Finn and his malleable talking-dog best friend, Jake, the series quickly expanded its scope without ever losing its sense of wonder and playfulness. Exploring the pains of adolescence, building a mythology without ever seeming to strain for it, experimenting with different formats, finding depth and tragedy in a villain as goofy as the Ice King nothing was out of bounds. At once complex and instantly accessible,
The Weirdness of Doom Patrol Was a Sign of Things to Come
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There’s a scene in the first season of
Doom Patrol, the DC Universe-turned-HBO Max show, that always stuck with me. Our heroes are facing off against Mr. Nobody (Alan Tudyk) on Danny the Street, a genderqueer sentient teleporting city block and recurring side character. The doomsday prophet Ezekiel, a cockroach from earlier in the season, and Whiskers, a rat whose mother was killed by Cliff Steele (Brendan Fraser), are blown up to the size of skyscrapers in proportion to our heroes.
With all characters trapped and Whiskers having eaten Cliff, Mr. Nobody formulates a plan for escape that involves what is likely the most absurd scene in the entire series, narrating the world around him: “It was in that moment Ezekiel lost all other appetites; he hungered for one thing and one thing only, and that was: rattatushy.”