In some fantastic news, we now know when we’ll be able to see the second season of the utterly brilliant Doom Patrol.
For North American audiences, Season Two of Doom Patrol will premiere on DC Universe and the new HBO Max streaming service on June 25th. Sadly, at this stage there is zero information on when those of us outside of North America will be able to check out the further antics of this ragtag team.
This won’t be the last DC-driven series heading to HBO Max, of course, with live-action Justice League Dark and Green Lantern shows already confirmed for the service, plus an animated Aquaman miniseries from James Wan.
The official synopsis for Doom Patrol’s second year reads:
DC’s strangest group of heroes — Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade) — are back again to save the world. That is, if they can find a way to grow up…both figuratively and literally. Following the defeat of Mr. Nobody, the members of the Doom Patrol now find themselves mini-sized and stranded on Cliff’s toy race car track.
Here they begin to deal with their feelings of betrayal by Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton), while confronting their own personal baggage. And as each member faces the challenge of growing beyond their own past traumatic experiences, they must come together to embrace and protect the newest member of the family: Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro), Niles’ daughter, whose powers remain a mysterious but real threat to bringing on the end of the world.