![]() ![]() Niles Caulder (Timothy Dalton, acting with a twinkle), a wheelchair-using genius who has turned his rural mansion into a halfway house for individuals with special gifts or curses. ![]() Of more emotional consequence is Brendan Fraser as Cliff Steele, a philandering race car driver who, after a 1988 accident, becomes a brain somehow integrated with a robotic body (played by Riley Shanahan, accompanied by Fraser’s voice) by Dr. His is the first origin story in the decades-spanning pilot, directed by Supergirl veteran Glen Winter, but far from the last or really the most important. Have you hung yourself yet?” asks our narrator, who turns out to be Alan Tudyk’s Eric Morden, who submits himself to scientific experiments courtesy of Nazis in 1948 Paraguay and becomes… something-or-other. “Ready for a story about superheroes? More TV superheroes. ![]() The two episodes sent to critics are three or four different superhero origin stories rolled into one, occasionally tip-toeing in the direction of a bigger ongoing narrative, without seeming wholly interested in anything more than being quippy, clever and, in its best moments, oddly sweet. Whatever that means.īased on the island of misfit toys superhero crew created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani, Doom Patrol has been spun out of an early Titans episode and yet the first two episodes are among the most aggressively expositional I’ve ever seen for the genre. All I can say for sure is that no matter what the narrator might have expected, I don’t hate Doom Patrol. ![]()
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