My main issue with the show is that it wants to have its cake and eat it too -
Harley is a sympathetic quirky girl!, but she has been directly responsible for horrifying atrocities.
We're gritty and mature!, but Mr Freeze is going to go off on an actual, literal face to the camera rant about white privilege and cishet Caucasian men.
Glass ceiling in the Legion and everyone is sexist, but we're nonetheless open to all and pretend to be offended when WW gets called a cunt.
Moment by moment I enjoy the show and the gags (that shot of the kid losing faith in Batman had me rolling like a spastic log), but this clunky, kind of whiny writing between the lines is kind of distracting. It's well acted, just not as well written as it thinks.
I'm sorry for replying to your over week old post, but the numerous mentions of "cis het this", "straight privilege that", "White man" this, etc were just so oddly inserted. Some of the "woke" and or "modern/self aware" bits in the script really hindered the overall flow of an otherwise pretty well written show. But I did find many bits to be funny. That part of King Shark saying that he "would never kill old people, leaving that to the American health care system" left me in tears. The gore and blood as I already mentioned is quite jarring for me, but since they're supervillains I should've expected this.
I'm almost caught up, but two things that bugs me about the show is that:
1). Harley Quinn's power level. She's suppose to be a normal human (I believe), but she seems to have the physical strength and durability of a superhuman. No matter what, it seems like she can almost always punch, swing her bat and kick her way through anything. I get in comics many "human" characters regularly do superhuman feats, but still.
2). She doesn't seem to have a consistent moral compass. I understand she's suppose to be crazy, but they've made it clear that she's in charage of her fate and wants to do things her way. One episode she's helping Poison Ivy dump chemical waste and kill CEOs or biting off the nose of The Penguin, the next she's freaked out that Killer Croc painted a picture of him killing a man named "Reed" or reprimanding Mr. Freeze for keeping the love of his life in frozen in a ice.
I like the voice acting behind this. Tony Hale, Kaley and Lake especially all fit their parts. I hope there's at least a season 3 and depending on where that ends, season 4.
