ON DEMAND CHOICE: Doom Patrol

Today, this offbeat superhero drama returns for a new, second season to Starzplay (via Amazon and Virgin). Here’s our guide to this eclectic show from the DC Universe… What’s it about? Four It’s worth watching… ‘superzeroes’, as the show’s If you like your superheroes snarky narration likes to call traumatised, sweary and them – a damaged quartet slightly ridiculous. The man whose powers all came from who plays Larry, Matt tragedy, and who live in a Bomer, is one of the best mansion under the dubious looking actors in Hollywood care of ‘The Chief’ (Timothy – and yet, he spends the Dalton). They are Cliff show with his face entirely (Brendan Fraser), an adulterous race car driver wrapped in bandages. Only Doom Patrol who is now a brain rattling around in a metal would do something so deliberately absurd. body; Larry (Matt Bomer), a radioactive ex-pilot; If you like this, try… Agents Of Shield

Rita (April Bowlby, centre, with Bomer), a 1950s (Amazon), Black Lightning (Netflix), actress who can alter her body shape at will; and Daredevil (Netflix), Jessica Jones (Netflix), Jane (Diane Guerrero), who has 64 personalities Misfits (All 4), Swamp Thing (Amazon), The and a different power for each. In season one, Boys (Amazon), The Fades (iplayer), Titans they are pitted against the enigmatic Mr Nobody. (Netflix), The Umbrella Academy (Netflix).