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Missing Your Superheroes This Summer? Then You Need To Watch Doom Patrol On HBO Max
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Looks like you’re going to have to wait just a bit longer to see Wonder Woman 1984 this fall. Even worse, your favorite DC Comics series on CW aren’t coming back until next year. It almost feels like on-screen super-heroics are, well, doomed. But don’t despair, all hope is not lost thanks to HBO Max.
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Quickly: HBO Max is a new stand-alone streaming service that includes everything (and that means everything) from HBO as well as some of your favorite series and movies from WarnerMedia and brand new Max Originals all for $14.99 a month. OK, got it?
One of those new Max Originals (streaming on June 25th) is the second season of Doom Patrol. Wait, what’s a Doom Patrol? And how does it have a second season when I’ve never even seen the first?
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Doom Patrol is based on the long-running DC comic of the same name and its first season streamed on the DC Universe app last year. So that’s probably why you didn’t see it. Luckily that first season is also available on HBO Max so you can catch up and essentially have two entire seasons of pure weirdness to dig into this summer.
The Doom Patrol is a superhero team the likes of which you’ve never seen, even though many of these characters have been around since the early 1960s. Often compared to the X-Men, they not only predate them by several months but they somehow manage to be even more tragic than Marvel’s team of mutants.
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Every member of the Doom Patrol received their superhuman abilities through a series of horrific accidents leaving them shunned by society for their dangerous powers and off-putting appearances (and personalities). Over the course of decades (hmmm), The Chief (as played by former James Bond star Timothy Dalton) was able to bring them all under one roof as a highly dysfunctional (yet heroic) family of super freaks.
OK, time for team roll call! Doom Patrol reporting for duty. First, we’ve got the mummy-like Negative Man (Matt Bomer) who houses a being of pure energy inside himself…
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Up next is Crazy Jane (played by Dianne Guerrero) with her 64 different distinct personalities that each have their own superpower. Then Elasti-Girl (April Bowlby), who can stretch and alter her cellular structure but often ends up turning into a gelatinous blob. Robotman (Brendan Fraser) is a former racecar driver whose brain was placed in a robotic body. And then there’s Cyborg (Joivan Wade), half-man, half-machine, and wait, isn’t that the same character from the Justice League movie, the one that’s being recut exclusively for HBO Max (shhhh, don’t think too hard about that)?
OK, this show is weird. Good weird. Things you’ve never really seen in a superhero series kind of weird. Like what? Well, here are a few examples from season one…
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Danny the Street, who is essentially a “sentient, genderqueer, teleporting street” that communicates via the signs on buildings. A talking doomsday prophet cockroach named Ezekiel. A giant eye that appears in the sky. Flex Mentallo, who can alter reality by, well, flexing his muscles. Beard Hunter, who has the uncanny ability to track down individuals by eating their facial hair. The fourth-wall-breaking narrator/arch-villain of the series, Mr. Nobody as played by Alan Tudyk (lots of nerd points for that one). And last, but certainly not least, Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man. And those are just a few of the characters, we just don’t have the time to go into the actual plot (but that’s way weird too).
Doom Patrol isn’t the only original series coming to HBO Max this summer. There’s a little something for everyone like brand new animated favorites…
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Also coming on June 25th is Adventure Time: Distant Lands, which presents four new tales/episodes that will go beyond the normal confines of the Land of Ooo with all your favorite characters like Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, and Peppermint Butler. The first installment features fan-favorite BMO traveling to the stars to save the day. Mathematical!
If you’re a fan of comedy-meets-documentary types of series and Crazy Rich Asians you’re covered!
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House of Ho follows a husband and wife who immigrated from Vietnam who immigrated to the United States with little money but the determination to achieve the so-called “American Dream.” They’ve since built a multi-million empire deep in the heart of Houston, TX while raising their children in utter opulence. Meet the multi-generational Ho family: patriarch Binh Ho, matriarch Hue Ho, their daughter Judy Ho, their son Washington Ho, and his wife Lesley Ho, Aunt Tina, and Cousin Sammy. Then enjoy all their fabulous drama. (Coming July 16th).
As for another Original, Amy Schumer is back (it’s been a while but you’ll soon find out why) with her new three-part documentary series.
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Expecting Amy follows the monumental challenges Schumer faced dealing with a difficult pregnancy while trying to grind through her comedy tour and pull off her next comedy special. From her marriage to the birth of her first child to her honing her comedic craft, we see every aspect of Amy’s life in it’s most raw and honest form. But it’s funny too! You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll probably do that awkward crying-while-laughing thing too. (Coming July 9th)
Those are just a few of the new series coming exclusively to HBO Max this summer in addition to those that premiered with its launch. Plus all the new shows and movies on HBO are going to be there too.
Mark Hill / Photo Credit: Mark Hill/ 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Photo by Mark Hill / 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Sign up for HBO Max for $14.99 a month and access countless series and movies and of course HBO Max Originals like Doom Patrol.
We’re not saying drop everything but you should really check out Doom Patrol as superhumanly fast as possible.
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