Here's to the damned, to the lost and forgotten
It's hard to get high when you're living on the bottom.
It's hard to get high when you're living on the bottom.
While Doom Patrol may be adapted from a visual medium, it's no slouch in the musical department, either.
- "Danny Patrol" has the fan-favourite scene where Larry sings Kelly Clarkson's "People Like Us" on karaoke.
- "Sex Patrol" gives us Dorothy singing a beautiful rendition of "Pure Imagination" in order to resuscitate Danny.
- "Possibilities Patrol" opens with "Time" by the Alan Parsons Project, which plays as the team learns that the Chief died during their battle with the Candlemaker. The gentle music embodies the mix of exhaustion, grief, and uncertainty that the team is feeling, while the lyrics - about how time always moves forward and there's nothing you can do to stop it - set the tone for the rest of the season, as the whole team deals with drastic changes to their lives, like Cliff becoming a grandfather, Larry losing the original Negative Spirit, and Jane losing the closest thing she had to a father figure.
- "Butt Patrol" opens with Elaine Stritch's rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch
" playing as some poor Bureau of Normalcy schmuck is sent to clean up after the butts. Stritch's increasingly angry lyrics, juxtaposed by the calm, smooth orchestra, captures the blend of mundanity and horror that characterizes life at the Bureau. Later, the song plays again as it's revealed that Dr. Yu saved one of the Butts from being destroyed. - "Casey Patrol" ends with Beth Ditto's "We Could Run" as Dorothy and Casey elect to go on a road trip to find the artist who created Casey, injecting hope and optimism into the scene and also hinting at Casey's lesbianism.
- "Youth Patrol" features use of the My Chemical Romance song "Teenagers" during the teen party Cliff and Jane get involved with, which adds to the wild and rowdy nature of the adolescents' antics and is especially fitting considering that bandmate Gerard Way wrote a run of the Doom Patrol comic book.
- "Immortimas Patrol" is one long rock opera, featuring a slew of songs getting to the heart of each character's personal arcs. The opening is performed a capella, while Immortus herself sings "You're Doomed" to the show's theme.
- "Portal Patrol" features the latter section of "Robotman and His Daughter" with new triumphant flourishes as Jane and Kay finally integrate all their personalities into The Kaleidoscope. It nicely conveys how Kay and Jane are finally at peace and have finally outgrown the need for the restrictive Underground.
