DC fans it's been a long freaking time since i've talked about a new show from the company and well this is a show that i've been waiting to see. I cannot even tell you when I started getting excited because it feels like a long time ago that the show was even announced but as of yesterday the first episode of the new Harley Quinn animated series finally dropped and boy do I have some thoughts about it so here they are my first impressions of Harley Quinn.
The plot of the episode is after Joker lets Harley spend a year in Arkham Asylum Harley has finally had enough and decides to dump him but things don't go that smoothly. As to be expected from a half hour show the episode is pretty light in terms of plot but it does a good job of setting up the status quo for the show as well as setting up the relationship between Harley and Ivy but at the same time I would have liked a little bit more story.
Starring in this episode and in the rest of the series is former Big Bang Theory star and executive producer Kaley Cuoco as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn , Lake Bell as Dr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy , Alan Tudyk as Joker , Diedrich Bader as Bruce Wayne / Batman , Jim Rash as Edward Nigma / Riddler , Ron Funches as Nanaue / King Shark , Chris Meloni as Commissioner James Gordon and J. B. Smoove as Frank the Plant.
I'll admit when I first saw the trailer I wasn't fully sold on Kaley as Harley and after this first episode i'm still not all I could hear whenever she spoke was Penny from The Big Bang Theory but i'm sure that will go away with time. From what I could gather just of this first episode the acting seems to be pretty good it was decent at least in this episode with their being plenty of room for improvement which given who else is in this show is bound to happen.
Now this is more of an educated guess since the over production company listed is owned by star and Kaley Cuoco but the animation for the series I assume is being done by Ehsugadee Productionsm. I've never heard of them and so I can't really say what they've worked on but I can say that based of this first episode the animation is really good and is very clean and polished it almost looks like it could fit in with the world of the newer DC animated movies as well.
Now if you for some reason thought that was going to be a kids cartoon or something that you can show your younger relatives because it has Batman in it. Then think again because this is an R rated show and it really does earn it's R rating with a bunch of swearing just in the opening few minuets as well there being a lot and I really mean this alot of blood and gore and just for good measure there's some social commentary thrown in for good measure so yeah DO NOT show this to your younger relatives.
I really like what there doing with Jim Gordon in this series they basically made him a p****d off drunk dude. Which was something that I felt was really funny every scene he's in he's slurring his words and basically acting like he's drunk and those scenes honestly got a huge laugh out of me because of how radically different it was to how we are used to seeing the character but only time will tell if he's still a good cop or if he's just there for that one joke.
Now it wouldn't be a review of anything to do with Harley Quinn if we didn't talk about the girl herself. To me this show seems to making her a mixture of both the original animated series in that she's still a villain but also the newer comics in that she's no longer with Joker and that she wearing something a little shorter shall we say and that's a mixture which really shouldn't work since Harley was only a villain because of the Joker and yet it oddly works for this show and for this episode and I don't want them to make Harley a hero in this show keep her as the villain.
I'm honestly not that sure what to make of the costume that they give Harley on the one hand it makes her more sexy but on the other hand I don't really feel that I suits the character. I get why they had her get rid of her old outfit because Joker gave her that outfit and so with her getting rid of it it means she's getting rid of him from her life but they could have gave her something that matched her insanity in my opinion and not something that makes her look that sexy.
Now this is an action comedy and that does mean that we have to talk about both of those aspects so let's start with the action. The action scenes in this episode were so fun to see on screen and this is where the show earns in R rating because they are violent as all hell i'm not even kidding either you see bones break and I loved it because of that fact since it helps it stand out from all of the other action comedy shows out there both animated and not.
Now that we've talked about the action part of the show we now have to talk about the comedy aspect of this action comedy. This show was far funnier then what I thought it was going to be I honestly feel that this show is worth watching just for the comedy alone since alot of the jokes had me laughing out loud and that's a very rare thing for me so it's really telling that the jokes in this episode really do work.
Honestly one thing I wasn't expecting was the fact that they touch on the abusive relationship between Joker and Harley. It's not just something that they bring up once and never mention again they actually make it the main focus of the episode and you see Harley fall into the same traps that someone who's just escaped an abusive relationship fall into like she goes back to the Joker because he knows exactly what to say and I hope that the show touches on the mental side of the relationship as well as that's not something that's covered that often.
Overall this is a really fun episode and it looks like it's going to be a really fun episode but I will say that if your an SJW type then this show isn't for you. I really hope that the show is as good as this first episode was and you can bet that i'm going to be watching this series every week and that means that there will be a review as soon as the first series ends and because I don't like to give out ratings for first episodes i'll just say watch the episode.
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