The Harley Quinn show might be the best thing DC has made since The Dark Knight. I’ll let you get over the shock at the hyperbole for a second, then ask you what you’d pit against it? The Dark Knight Rises? Please, it’s at least an hour too long. Man of Stee﷽l? Even the people who like it argue it needs a sequel to make sense. Wonder Woman? Watch it post-hype, i🍨t doesn’t hold up that well. Snyder Cut? Yeah, right.
Leaving games and comics aside (they feel like very different mediums), and discounting all the CW stand💝ard shows for fairly obvious CW standard reasons, Harley Quinn has two main challengers - Birds of Prey and The Suicide Squad. The connection there is Harley Quinn, and as great as Robbie’s live-action version is, there’s something especially chaotic about Cuoco’s animated turn as dear Harleen.
If you don’t like Harley, your mileage may vary (and I may key your car), but DC’s best, most vibrant stories have come with Harley in the driving seat. However, the Harley Quinn show has been allowed to retain its identity, even as its picked up a bigger crowd. Three seasons in, it hasn’t been forced to change to appeal to a more mainstream audience, soften its edges, or avoid the carna🔯ge. There’s no attempt to be something more consumer-friendly to cash in on Harley as a brand. Harley Quinn season three looks like Harley Quinn seasons one and two, only gayer.
Of course, we don’t entirely know what it looks like yet. While we did 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:see a sizzle reel at the DC FanDome, much of it was unfinished, presented in black and white storyboard form. Since Harley Quinn never takes itself seriously, it gets away with this - inꦉ fact, it becomes endearing.
The sizzle reel mainly focused on the familiar cast, and Harley and Ivy’s blossoming relationship. Season two’s Irish finale ended with Poison Ivy finally admitting Kite Man wasn’t right for her🌃ꦏ, and having previously tried to push down her feelings for Harley, finally embracing them. Fans feared the series would be cancelled, but HBO Max has resurrected it while keeping the tone and queerness intact.
Much of the footage revolves around Harley and Ivy causing chaos. I would never become a cop. I might, however, become a cop in Gotham City if it meant Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn would step on me. The sho🍬w has also managed to use Batman and the Joker without letting either of them steal the show, and again it’s the more minor - by general DꦚC standards - characters who are offered the spotlight.
Alongside Harley, the characters who actually feature in the fully animated presentation of the sizzle reel are the inimitable and useless Kite Man💞, and King Shark. It’s worth noting that this iteration of Shark predates both The Suicide Squad and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s version, yet still manages to feel more fre🌸sh.
The key moment though is Harley and Ivy together, both in glamo🦩rous dresses with their hair down, Harley in a plunging black♏ and white number while Ivy wears purple tendrils of silk climbing her like vines. This art appears ‘finished’ - it is not storyboarded or in black and white - but is not animated. Clearly, this image was key to showing what Harley Quinn season three is about, and a single frame of it needed to be included in the trailer, even if the scene was unfinished.
If that frame doesn’t show Harley Quinn is for th⛦e gays, I don’t know what does.