Doom Patrol Season 1 Premiere Review: 7 Ups & 2 Downs
6. It's "Mature" Without Trying Too Hard
By comparison, the season premiere of Titans was an exercise in how not to establish an adult-skewing tone.
It was "mature" without being mature: the brutal violence and foul language felt incredibly forced, and got the series off to a rough start from the outset.
However, Doom Patrol does a far better job of managing its tone from episode one. The first five minutes alone feature a decent amount of nudity, and the entire episode is rife with vulgar language, yet none of it feels self-conscious or like it's trying too hard.
It all feels organic to this world and the tortured characters within it, and better still, it doesn't clash with the more sweet and human moments as the heroes expose their vulnerabilities later.
Oddly the season premiere is actually surprisingly low on brutality, though one can imagine that this'll change in the coming episodes. Because why give us boobs and F-bombs if you're not gonna give us fountains of gore, right?