Doom Patrol, the weirdest superhero show on TV, jumps to HBO Max for its second season, and here's the first trailer.
is almost back, and here’s the first trailer for the second season. The show returns on June 25 on the new HBO Max streaming service, a big step up from its previous home of DC Universe, with three episodes premiering that night and more following thereafter.
The Doom Patrol isn’t one of DC’s better known superhero squads, but it’s not a new concept. The team debuted in 1963, just a couple of months before Marvel launched a very similar group known as the X-Men. Neither comic was a big success in the ‘60s, but one of them blew up in the 1970s to become one of the most popular comic books and multimedia franchises of all time. Hint: it wasn’t the Doom Patrol.
That relative obscurity opened up the gates for some of the weirdest and most inventive superhero comics ever released by the two major publishers, though. Grant Morrison took over a failing Doom Patrol reboot at the end of 1988, and turned it into a brilliant postmodern riff on superheroes and science fiction, with a heavy focus on the relationships between its main characters.
The new trailer quickly establishes the overall theme of the series—the Doom Patrol is less of a superhero team than a collection of damaged people working through their mental, emotional and physical issues while also occasionally saving the world from various apocalypses—while also introducing the character of Dorothy, who was a major figure in the comics in the early ‘90s.
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