[Review] DC’s TITANS Season 1 Episode 1

The promotional poster for DC’s Titans. Photo credit to the DC Universe Titans page

DC’s TITANS is an 11-episode DC Universe-exclusive, original drama series following Bill Finger and Bob Kane’s Dick Grayson, Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s Raven and Koriand’r, and Arnold Drake and Bob Brown’s Garfield Logan as they slowly come together while navigating their own dire circumstances and undergo tremendous personal growth. For this season, their beacon is Raven, and the focal characters are the gothic empath and Grayson. A cult targets the young, thirteen-year-old, Raven, called Rachel Roth, in a “conspiracy to bring hell on Earth” (DC Universe). Created and developed by Geoff Johns (The Flash, Suicide Squad), Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, Star Trek: Discovery), and Greg Berlanti (Arrowverse, Love, Simon) and executive produced by Johns, Goldsman, Berlanti, Sarah Schechter (Deception, Supergirl), Greg Walker (Without A Trace, Vegas), Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Call), John Fawcett (Orphan Black, The Man in the High Castle), Gabrielle Stanton (Haven, Ugly Betty), and Richard Hatem (Witches of the East End, The Mothman Prophecies). The pilot was directed by Anderson, written by Johns and Goldsman, and produced by Robert Ortiz (Salvation, The Host), Carl Ogawa (Arrowverse, Blindspot), Jennifer Lence (Arrowverse, The Tomorrow People), Tom Flores (Smallville, The Shannara Chronicles), and Christiana Hooks (Queen Sugar, Still Star-Crossed).