Saturday, October 09, 2021

My Review of Doom Patrol's 3x05: "Dada Patrol"

 


Written by Shoshana Sachi
Directed by Kristin Windell

Shelley Byron (to Jane): "I'll see you on the other side and give Laura De Mille my best."

Might be a bit hard to do that when this encounter resulted in the gang being somewhat overwhelmed by the Sisterhood of Dada. Overwhelmed to the point where they have now outright refused to help Laura anymore. Also with the exception of Rita, the rest of the gang simply don't like Laura all that much.

Laura managed to get the gang to go after the Sisterhood of Dada on the premise that she would go away forever. It was enough for Cliff, Jane, Larry and Victor to head off into the woods and make themselves too easy prey for the Sisterhood and the latter group absolutely knew how to get to each and every one of them.

Jane and Kay got the most tempting of offers being locked in a sweet shop with Shelley Byron/The Fog (Wynn Everett). Shelley was getting to Jane, slowly breaking her barriers down until Hammerhead interrupted and Jane found herself at odds with Kay. The fact that Jane succumbed to taking one of Byron's sweets was pretty telling too.

Victor's encounter with Lloyd/Frenzy (Miles Mussenden) certainly went a way into talking about Victor's own identity both as a black man and as Cyborg while Cliff encountered two members with the germophobic Sachiko/The Quiz (Gina Hiraizumi) and Holly/Sleepwalk (Anita Kalathara) as he talked about fearing death and wanting to be alive for his grandson, hence his reckless overdose on internet bought pills for Parkinson's disease.

Even Larry himself when he was dealing with a moving blue light tumour found himself encountering his own son, Paul and having to bring him back to the manor. What the hell is going on with that thing on Larry? It's obviously some side effect from losing his Negative spirit but I'm hoping we start to get an answer to it soon though.

As for Rita, there was a lot of drinking and a lot of bonding between her and Laura. I'm starting to see why the two of them are being shipper online. I also found it amusing how well Rita took it that she knew Laura from the past. However the moment Laura cast doubt on Rita being a time traveler, it was obvious that Rita would use the machine to prove her wrong. Somehow I think Rita might end up making things a tiny bit worse.

- Of course Jane would refer to Laura as Doctor Who. Michelle Gomez played Missy during the Peter Capaldi era of the show.
- Victor got linked back online but it seems that Silas went behind STAR Labs in order to do it.
- Standout music: Barry Manilow's Copacobana was well enough to introduce Holly.
- Chronology: A day since the events of the previous episode.

Dada Patrol certainly hit the spot in introducing the Sisterhood of Dada and the Eternal Flagellation. It's hard to tell where the show will go with this particular group, though it's clear that Byron is the leader of the pack and made it their mission to seek out of Jane and send a cryptic warning to Laura.

Rating: 8 out of 10

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