ever, IMHO.
Most of you probably missed it. Doom Patrol has never been a household name as comic characters. In the comic world, it is often an overlooked series that has seen intermittent publication and different runs at different times in the hands of different writers, some of them doing a spectacular job with them, and some of them quite dismal.
Doom Patrol, especially in the way they appear in the Max series, are not super heroes at all. They are a bunch of seriously messed up people who are in need of extensive therapy but never received, trying come to terms with who they are, trying to connect with people around them and their families, and maybe make up for the crappy things they have done in the past, who for the sake of this being an action adventure show, are being thrown into massively surreal situations where in a lot of cases, nothing less than all existence hangs in balance ... and they have no clue, no plan, and typically, no interest in any heroics at all. In a lot of ways this is an anti-super-hero series that turns the tropes on their head more often than not. And it does it with a lot of absurdist humor.
The series takes it characters from three main runs: Arnold Drake's original run in the '60s, Grant Morrison's classic Vertigo imprint run in the '80s, and some of Gerard Way's run in the '10s. It also does the thing that has geeks like me giddy, which is to sprinkle characters and motifs from other runs and periods generously along the way, so the series becomes a fairly good representation of the best of the history of these characters.
Brandon Frasier does a fantastic job as Cliff Steele (mostly through his voice because he is a brain stuck inside a robot -- and he has some of the best lines), Diane Guerero is fantastic as Crazy Jane as she navigates through multitude of personas competing for control of the same body, plus there is a certain Timothy Dalton as the Chief, kinda like the Professor X character for the series (the first Doom Patrol issue was published a few months before the first X-Men so the question of how much of X-Men was built on Doom Patrol is a point of contention).
It has some peaks and valleys of course. Some story lines are extended too far, others may not land perfectly, but overall as an end to end experience, I can't recommend this one highly enough. What's more important is that at the end, it sticks the landing.
The first season starts with some of the best Morrison creations, especially Danny the Street, Flex Montello, and Mr. Nobody. So it gets into its groove very quickly so you know early on if it's gonna work for you or not.