Doom Patrol Boss Explains [Spoiler]’s Return as the Final Season’s Unconventional Big Bad
Doom Patrol‘s final Big Bad is neither physically big nor technically bad, and that’s kind of the point.
The Max drama resumed its fourth season on Thursday with a wild premiere that finally put a face to a name, that name being (drumroll please…) Immortus! And that was only half of the surprise, as the face belonged to (let’s get another drumroll…) Isabel Feathers!
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That’s right, the same Isabel Feathers who fell into the time stream when Madame Rouge arrived last season and has been floating around in there ever since. Rita’s former community theater rival may not exactly scream “formidable foe,” but serving as the vessel for an inter-dimensional deity capable of rewriting reality as we know it would make anyone a threat.
And like all of the insane plot twists Doom Patrol has delivered over the years — from a farting donkey to that unforgettable make-out sesh between the giant rat and cockroach — there’s a method to this latest serving of madness.
“It feels like the driving commitment amongst the writers for all four seasons of this show was to expand and explode what was possible in a ‘Bad Guy,'” showrunner Jeremy Carver tells TVLine. “I can’t remember the a-ha moment exactly, but usually our best a-ha moments came when we were all lying flat on our backs, staring into the middle distance, totally depressed at whatever initial horrible idea we had just landed on for a Bad Guy. ‘Is this really the best we can do?’ ‘Are we all a bunch of a–holes?’ and ‘Did we eat yet?’ are usually a few of the laments that convince us to charge through the muddle and come up with something like Isabel/Immortus.”
The premiere welcomed back several other key characters, including Dorothy and Casey, the latter of whom has quite a journey in these final episodes. (No spoilers!) The episode also revealed, during a moment of extreme intoxication, that Madame Rouge used to get back at Rita by transforming into a beaver and putting her toothbrush in her… well, let’s just say that we’ll never be able to unhear Michelle Gomez saying the phrase “wee beaver beaver.” Nor would we want to.
On the Rouge/Rita front, Carver adds, “There are many more moves left in this extremely complicated and mature relationship. Much more drinking as well.”
Were you happy and/or surprised to see Isabel back as Immortus? And what are your hopes for the rest of Doom Patrol‘s final season? Grade the premiere below, then drop a comment with you thoughts.
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