Titans

Our Review

DC’s dirt-and-anger Teen Titans — a show that took the Robin who quit Batman and made him meaner than Bruce ever was. Brenton Thwaites’s Dick Grayson, ex-Robin turned Detroit cop, is the anchor: a man who left the mantle because he enjoyed the violence too much, forced back in when Rachel Roth, a girl with a demon inside her, needs protecting. The team assembles slowly — Starfire (Anna Diop, luminous and dangerous), Beast Boy, and Hawk & Dove (the show’s best addition: a pair of has-been heroes whose marriage is the real superpower) — and the mythology builds over four seasons to a Trigon apocalypse, a Blackfire betrayal, a Red Hood arc, and a finale that goes full Crisis.

The show’s violence quotient (a Robin beating muggers while screaming profanity at Batman’s memory) was the marketing hook; its actual identity is trauma made flesh — every character is a survivor, and the show takes their damage seriously. The character work (especially the Dick and Kory chemistry) is better than it needed to be. The live-action peak of DC’s streaming era.

Verdict: Watch it. The Teen Titans grown up — literally, and violently.