My Review of Doom Patrol's 4x09: "Immortimas Patrol"

 

Written by Aliza Berger And Talia Berger

Directed by Omar Madha

Immortus (to the Doom Patrol): "Now, my question was - what are you all grateful for?"

You know, Halloween night be less than a fortnight away but this show decided as it headed towards its final episodes that a Christmas episode was the order of the day. My mistake, I mean an Immortimas Day episode. That also happens to be a musical as well.

The show has given us a few musical numbers, with two of the most memorable ones coming from the first season but could a whole episode sustain the madness of a musical? Of course it can and in such style too.

We open with the sex ghosts providing back up vocals for a very happy Dorothy, followed by Jane and Casey, whose friendship has certainly taken a turn this episode. It's also not long before Larry, Cliff, Victor, Rita and Laura are all in on the singing antics of the most joyful day ever.

However we all know that Immortimas Day's a crock and keeping with last episode, it's Laura who quickly realised that everything was a lie. Then she has a task persuading everyone else with Rita being the last one to realise that the greatest day's a big lie.

With everyone aware of the big lie, there's that divide between wanting to escape the lie or remain in it. Cliff was mostly in the latter category. Having Isabel at dinner to celebrate herself might have gone well had everyone decided they were done playing pretend.

Now the musical numbers in this episode are fantastic but have you ever seen or heard something as salty as Isabel telling the Doom Patrol that they're doomed anyways? It's salty as fuck and it's also the reason why she refused to kill them. I guess they're doomed then.

- Not only do we have Larry/Rama officially as a couple to everyone but this episode heavily pushed Jane/Casey as a romantic pairing too. Things went slightly backwards with Rita/Laura though.

- Dorothy included a ginger bread Niles for her house, which was rather sweet.

- Standout music: I'm gonna say in ranking of performances - Larry/Rama, Isabel, Jane/Casey, Victor, Cliff, Rita/Laura and Dorothy/opening song.

- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.

Immortimas Patrol has officially become my favourite episode of the series and one of the best musical episodes from any series at all. It's just fantastic from start to finish with every single actor bringing their A game to proceedings. 

Rating: 10 out of 10