one episode one freaking episode we're starving for content here I get one
episode from Warner Brothers on the press on the press application oh my
gosh I was so annoyed when I saw that I
actually wrote back to my contact and I was like I think there's been a mistake
you've only given me one episode they're like we're only given one episode at a
time for season two and I'm still not over it I'm really upset about it okay I
mean look for Harlequin season one admit I was spoiled
they gave the press all 13 half-hour episodes at once because they wanted us
to fall in love with the show and then we did it I don't think anybody gave it
a bad review I particularly have been pushing this show because it was such a
great experience i binge two all those episodes in a 24-hour period that is the
fastest I have ever watched a show and I felt very bad for all of you that you
had to get accused one Episode a week but I don't know how you were truly
suffering until Warner Brothers put me right there with you huh this is rough
it would be like getting one episode of glow at a time right I mean even the
mandalorian another streaming show with a painfully slow release schedule if
you're in Europe and you just got Disney Plus for some reason they're also
releasing that show like at the same slow rate that they did what okay Bude
here in the United States even though it's already all the episodes already
came out somewhere so now you're a path to go through it it's crazy but at least
those episodes are like a tad longer not much longer but when you're only get
when you're getting a slow drip of what you love don't take all the extra drops
you can get wow this is rough I'm parched for Harley Quinn and I know they
have more it's a special circumstance with coronavirus lockdown over the
entire globe why would they give us all the episodes alright so again Warner
Brothers gave you just one episode for press to review and that makes it very
hard for me to review every show every single show gives press least the first
three episodes for streaming shows like Netflix usually gives me half or not or
sometimes all usually all but sometimes for The Witcher that gave me half but
before the show started they gave me everything so I'm watching two parts and
that's so as a reviewer I can tell you whether or not this gets we know where
it goes if it's worth your time it's a long investment that's the reason that
you do it even the first three episodes and at least gives me a chunk to get a
night to get a feel for the series blur I couldn't do that here in fact I had to
really watch the episode because I was like what am I gonna say about it cuz I
don't want to give any spoilers don't worry there are no spoilers in this
we're here now why is this happening to us well there's the there's the excuse
that if you do what episode a week when people will talk about it and you know
there are all these headlines there like the Mandalorian conversation is
continuing for longer than anyone else it kind of worked out at the Mandalorian
to be fair but more people have Jesse plus DC Universe apparently has a very
small subscribership so nobody ever talks about this damn shows once there
everyone talks about the trailer because anyone can watch that trailers same
thing for Titan the same thing for Doom Patrol
but no one ever talks about the show's so as much of the show's so I think the
real culprit here at least in this case DC Universe content is that damn seven
three-day trial right there like they don't want you they don't want you to
binge everything and then cancel your subscription which of course I'm a lot
of people would dare but you know what DC Universe has been around for over a
frickin here now right so get rid of the seven free day trial that's a
ridiculously long trial at this point I mean look at for the people who are paid
for your service and DC Universe is not cheap and there's clear and clean up
pretty much on it I mean I know there's technically a lot on it but there's not
enough really liking to justify the price point except for shows like this
but then they come out you gotta wait it's so frustrating look after the
people who are paying because you know what they're gonna do everyone's just
gonna wait this is what many of you do do you just wait till the series runs
its course then you sign up for the seven free day trial and they still
don't carry money so why why not just you're gonna do that anyway
why not at least benefit the rest of us that we can we can binge it when it when
it debuts it's pretty obvious alright so how was the first episode of
season 2 well I've mixed feelings to be honest with you and I don't know if it
gets better kiona someone damn episode alright so on
the one hand the show is still incredibly funny like Venture Brothers
level funny this show is amazing so funny there's a goon vs. hench joke that
has stuck with me since I watched the episode a week ago I don't remember how
it came up again I was reading either a comic or watching something on TV where
else I wouldn't be watching it anywhere else because block down but I was like
oh yeah that's like the really quick joke haha you know and so it's funny and
when I watched the episode again I still laughed at the jokes even though I knew
there cuz they're really really strong and I also think the show continues to
have very smart smart and fair commentary about women operating in
groups of men and any woman who's operated in groups of men would be like
this is real this is lit this shows keeping it 100 for how it can be
frustrating and unfair for some women like Harley Quinn her experiences here
but that also has some women can be a bit of a wet blanket don't make as big
of an effort is t-shirts you know trying be part of the group right I'm a nurse
too big argument about how the group should change for the woman but you're
supposed to everyone's in any situation layers of compromise you're supposed to
meet halfway the famous saying of cock of a good compromise is that nobody's
happy with it right but there are some good jokes with here some of you will be
upset about this but it's I said it's it's it's accurate and fair commentary
but there's some really funny gags about the one woman on Gordon's task force I
thought they were funny they were a little insulting because I was like why
isn't she trying harder to get along with the group but I have to admit they
were funny because they are some women like that but I also for this episode
went for some cheap jokes which I didn't appreciate I think in terms of both
violence and being overly crude in a way that made it seem like they were
crutches for instead of having better writing and since I know this show I was
amazing writing I was like don't cheapen yourself like that Harley Quinn show
you're better than that and in season one you never really needed to do it I
think it what at least it wasn't to the level it is here might have been one or
two gags sprinkled out throughout the whole season but this was I would say I
would say 70% snow 65% of the jokes are really strong but 35 I think are you
know a little bit you know Wayne you know they just stick trying too hard now
also what bothered me is a he seems to be acting out of character
least four in this show there are a lot of versions hardly at this point which
I've told you before I think it's DC's problem Marla's pretty on model across
platforms but DC likes I like Elseworlds stories as we've discussed before they
always have different versions of the same character sometimes even within the
same medium different versions in the comics different versions and animation
and so everybody has a favorite different favorite and so it splinters
the fanbase and not everybody's on the same page but I really like this version
of partly I saw I told you before it's my favorite version of Harlequin since
she debuted in the animated series I think kaley cuoco is does a fantastic
job she still does very good voice work this episode but the whole point of
season one was harley wanting to be recognized as a super villain in her own
right but then suddenly here she's all about anarchy and no one being in charge
and she she relates to the goons when she was never a good and if he would
called her a good she would have gotten upset about it but suddenly she's like
for you guys and she's not even putting that on she seems to honestly believe it
so it just again it was a choice and it seemed like it was a choice that was
made by the writers to go down this path and to put Harley in a bit of a
disadvantage going in and that's frustrating because you can see the
strings so you know it doesn't feel organic and again it feels out of
character for the character they so firmly and wonderfully established in
season 1 there is more button Luthor which we always appreciate the two of
them you gotta have two lioness and also some very good swinging of her back
she's I like Harley I've come to really like her swinging a baseball bat
although at the end she had it nails to it and I thought that was a little bit
too much for Harlequin I didn't like it I didn't like it alright so speaking of
the back Jacob Tremblay returns for his seat as Damian Wayne and he nails it so
funny and Mr Freeze is a welcome addition to our rogues galleries some
very good gags of his own again in just twenty four minutes so many funny jokes
and I don't know if Mr Freeze has the South American or European accent I'm
not sure I'm leaning towards euro but I'm exciting to see what they do with
this character it's different I like you know we've seen mr. free so many times
at this point this show really does a good job in making everything seem fresh
although we all love Batman so we don't have to worry about that much
as I told you I like a swell stuff and I like these versions of this characters
alright so also what considering what's going on in the real world right now
right this show doing its version of no-man's land has a surprisingly ripped
from the headlines feel which they didn't count on when they made that
choice but this is where the show is kind of lucked out in some regard oh
that I never liked the no-man's land story I didn't like it in the comics I
didn't like it on Gotham when they tried to do it
I don't worried about it here I didn't even like it the Dark Knight Returns
when they kind of tried to do it which I even forgot about I blocked it out of my
mind I don't like it I guess cuz I don't like Anarchy I'm not a fan of Anarchy uh
I just I don't like it I'm not I just I don't never liked it
but if anyone can do it it's this show because I love this show so much and the
people who are making also thanks with Gordon got very weird very quickly I was
like oh I hope this go somewhere good and speaking of weird there's a weird
cut I can't believe this towards the end of this episode it comes like 2/3 in you
don't know when you see it cuz you're like did the episode skip but see like
they did it didn't it's just a weird cut but they feel like they cut ivy off
poison ivy in the middle in mid-sentence and you're like I got really nervous I
was like oh my god was there like a technical snafu I made all of this that
I can get don't make me lose some but it was just a really weird cut that I can't
believe they let go through I do continue till iCarly's gang I think it's
a very eclectic group which is of course very Carly but I don't like cyborg men I
didn't like him in the comics and I don't like him here I don't care if
Jason Alexander is voicing him probably weren't the biggest names on this show
although you know maybe not Tony Hale Carrie Coco those are big names in TV
but I was disappointed to see him in Clayface get the most screen time in
Harley's gang because my favorite members are poison ivy doctor psycho and
king shark so I'm like I don't want to look at these other characters also I
didn't like making ivy the Felix Ungar of the group right speaking of a white
blanket she I think she's too felt a little off character to me as well I did
those already begin to see some Harley and Ivy romantic vibes in the mix but
what happened to kite man I just feel like we skipped a few steps
I feel very disoriented by this episode it's not
and I feel like I missed some stuff like I'm missing more contact
I'm listening though they're episodes through the season but yeah I feel like
I didn't start at the beginning so because I love it so much it's very
disorienting and upsetting but I feel that's honestly how I feel because from
a place of love because I do love to show so much all right and I will watch
it of course I'll watch it whatever way they can give it to me and the way I'm
gonna cover it going forward is I'll do spoiler videos for like when
Catwoman shows up and when Harley and I be circulating up as a couple I'll cover
that and then of course review the entire season when it wraps with a
spoiler review but this is the mess starting out I hope maybe they change
their mind and give us all the episodes they haven't give it to me now Harvin so
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