As any fan with an all-weekend SDCC go can inform you, James Gunn is now in control of the DC Extended Universe, making headlines with reported plans to reboot Warner Brothers’ entire superhero franchise, and canning Wonder Woman 3. As of final yr, Warners had already begun the method of winding down most of their preexisting DC properties by canceling virtually all of their CW community “Arrowverse” exhibits, and deciding to not launch Batgirl.
But whereas Warners made a spectacular present of pumping nine figures into #restoringtheSnyderverse, funding the director’s effort to rework Justice League from a disappointing film into an annoying HBO Max miniseries, there’s been one other nook of the DCEU that has spent the previous three years quietly constructing a fiercely loyal fanbase for a present with sharp writing and a number of the greatest appearing on tv right now: Doom Patrol.
Fans took to Twitter right now to rejoice the fourth season of the sequence a few workforce of misfit heroes with a 98% “certified fresh rating” on Rotten Tomatoes. Starting with a fan account referred to as “Doom Patrol Shots”:
Meanwhile, a Twitter account devoted to the most effective of star April Bowlby posted 4 pictures of the actress, who performs Elastic Girl on the sequence:
While this fan whose Twitter title, “Rani Timekey Baker,” is taken from the unique model of BBC’s venerable Doctor Who, loves the course the present has taken the character Cyborg:
And Jordan Blum makes the purpose that as a substitute of specializing in the various many issues that DCEU does mistaken, followers might be celebrating all of the ways in which Doom Patrol will get the present proper:
Season 4 of Doom Patrol streams weekly on HBO Max.