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A masterpiece. Perfect balancing of all qualities can make an episode of this genre a masterpiece. Good acting, photography, script and direction.

The plot is really original, and well told. Characters are lovable, and believable over the parodie.

Im really surprised at the quality of this quite marginal show. The acting is great, maybe Cyborg needs a bit more emotional variety but everyone else is top notch. The overlapping and mixing of the storyline and personal histories/stories is excellent and especially the directing is high quality. I very rarely get immersed anymore in shows or movies where you, you know kinda just blank out the surrounding and fall into the show not noticing anything else around you. That is an excellent benchmark and measure of a director that can make the editing/filming and jumping between scenes/characters so natural and smooth it draws you in. Less and less I feel are capable of that. All in all, very good, interesting and emotional episode with quite powerful scenes and I pretty much never ever say things like that.

Very intresting episode with a lot of curiosities and new secrets. A very good idea to mix the first comic characters with the current ones, that causes very funny moments and good fights with a high quality You will discover a liitle bit more about Rita's past. More Nils secrets without answers. We confirm how dangerous Mr.Nobody is. Very good scripts and a lot of easter-eggs.

Way back in the 1950s, another set of depressing losers called itself the Doom Patrol. The current crew of misfits goes on a mission to find the original sad sacks, thanks to Mr. Nobody's suggestion.

Once they find the nursing home with the original losers, they sink in deep to dig up all the reasons everyone should be miserable, and they hit pay dirt. Lots of questions that nobody cared about get answered, including why Rita Farr is such a depressing pile of self-pity and self-loathing. By the end of the story, everyone is as depressed and whiny as usual, so they all return to their creepy home to wait for the Chief.

What is it about this show that makes me love almost every moment of it?

First of all, it's very true to the source material. Those of us who read the comics in the sixties recognize immediately Cliff and Larry in their iconic configurations. Rita is timeless, a snapshot of herself that is every actor's dream, except for that tendency to ooze. Crazy Jane jumps off the screen and kicks you right in the nuts. On purpose.

Greg Berlanti's crew never crowds the scene with characters all the time. We don't see every single cast member every single moment. No, we see Larry and Rita get dragged by Jane (as Flit) into what appears to be the past to confront another "Doom Patrol". We don't get time wasting exposition, rather a sequence of revealing interactions. We follow the others with "meanwhile" moments.

Seriously, dude! Get off your ample butt and get this show into your life! There aren't any angst filled moments of "Team Superhero" where the antagonist is going to steal their powers and kill everyone with a glowing dagger while a denizen of an alternate universe figures it all out!

Well, maybe a little. But they swear like sailors while they do it.

The flaccid creeps go visit the original Doom Patrol losers in the nursing home where Chief (Timothy Dalton) has socked them away. They are all really old, but thanks to the drugs that their caretaker Joshua Clay (Alimi Ballard) gives them, they imagine that they are still in the 1950s and that they are teaching at a school of mutants (X-Men?).

Joshua Clay is an interesting character who is not whiny, too bad he is not a recurring character. The original Doom Patrol are three losers who got their butts kicked by Mr. Nobody (created in 1948). Jane only screams and shouts in this episode, and Rita Farr (April Bowlby) spends the entire episode whining and regretting her hurtful acts from 70 years ago.

Nothing happens in this episode, it is totally boring all feelings and discussion. At the end they all go back to the Chief's house, and they are still whining and complaining and depressed.