There have been a ton of shows based of DC Comics characters but all of those shows have been based of the heroes that DC Comics have created. Well that all changed a little under a year ago when the DC Universe streaming service debuted an new adult animated show based of someone who is technically a villain and they actually made the show good and so here is my review of the debut episode of the Harley Quinn animated series with the episode itself being called "Til Death Do Us Part" enjoy the review everyone.
The plot of the episode is after a year locked up in Arkham Asylum Harley finally learns that The Joker never truly loved her and so sets out on a quest to become the number one villain in Gotham. Out of all the good things in this episode the plot isn't one of them don't get me wrong it's enjoyable as hell and is very fun to watch and see play out the problem is the story itself is so thin that it might has well not even be there.
Starring in the episode and the rest of the series is producer Kaley Cuoco as Harley Quinn and Lake Bell as Poison Ivy. Also starring in this episode and the rest of the series is Diedrich Bader as Bruce Wayne / Batman , Vanessa Marshall as Joey , Matt Oberg as Killer Croc and Banker , Jim Rash as The Riddler and Stan , Talia Tabin as Mrs. Calendar , Chris Meloni as Commissioner Gordon , JB Smoove as Frank the Plant and Alan Tudyk as The Joker and Calendar Man.
I'll be the first to admit that when I first watched this episode when it first came out I wasn't that big of a fan of Kaley Cuoco as Harley Quinn just because all I could hear was Penny from The Big Bang Theory, However now tho I fully by her as Harley yes I can still just hear Penny but that will always be there but her performance in this episode is really good and the same goes for the rest of the cast who all give performances that match the ton that this show is going for.
Doing the animation for this episode and i'm assuming the rest of the series is NE4U and I say assuming because I can't find anything regarding the animation for the actual series on the show's IMDB page but I found NE4U listed on the episode's IMDB page as doing the animation for the episode. The animation for this series has got a lot of praise from people and yeah it's not hard to see why since the animation in this episode is stunning as hell.
For me at least it's always a good sign when the animation in the first episode is really good simply because it says that the team behind the show care about making the best show possible. One of the ways that they can do that is by giving the first episode great looking animation since you only get once chance to make a good first impression and if you have solid animation in your first episode then you've made one hell of a good first impression.
I actually like the idea that Harley had to talk her self into breaking up with The Joker because to me that makes alot more sense then having her do it because of reasons. Yes i'm looking at the Birds Of Prey movie when I say that because here it's important for the character to discover that The Joker never really loved her and was infact abusing the living hell out of her and so it forms part of the characters arc as she has to come to terms with the fact that she was in a one way relationship and that's something that I feel that this show does really well in my opinion.
I honestly feel that this show handles the relationship between Harley and Ivy really well since we see there relationship develop over the course of the show and they don't just stay in one place if you get what I mean. That to me at least starts of in this episode since we see how much they care for each other and how much they are willing to go through to make the other one happy which is something that you don't see that much if at all in any kind of show animated or not and so it was nice to see it presented here.
Now then this is a comedy and so that means that we have to talk about the jokes that are in the actual episode. For me personally the jokes just weren't that funny don't get me wrong there are a few funny lines here and there but the overall majority of the jokes I didn't find funny which for a comedy is not really a good thing but just because I didn't find some jokes funny doesn't mean that you guys will feel the same way you guys might find all of the jokes in this episode to be funny.
This is I think the only adult animated comedy on DC Universe and when I say that this show and this episode is adult I really mean it. Since there is lots of blood and violence when someone brakes a bone you see the bone which was something that I honestly forgot was in the episode and so I was quite shocked to see it happen on more then one occasion and there's lots of swearing so basically don't let little kids watch this show.
This is also an action show and that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in this episode. To me the action is one of the more weaker elements of the episode not that the action is any bad far from it but because everything else is so good and so when you compare the action in the episode to literally anything else then the action is going to come of looking worse because of it altho the final action scene at The Joker's lair is really freaking cool and I like how they use that sequence to explain why Harley is now using a baseball bat and why she's changed her costume instead of having them both come out nowhere.
Overall this episode is a great start to a great series and the series as a whole is one that needs a third season hint hint HBO Max. Yes there are some bad things in this episode all of which i've covered in this review but for me at least alot of those things are only bad when you compare them to over things in the episode since the episode is so freaking good as such this episode gets an impressive 8.5 out of 10 from me.
All of the images that I sued in this review ere taken from the official Harley Quinn fandom wiki page and Google Images. Out of the two websites that I used for images to use in this review I have no choice but to recommend the official Harley Quinn fandom wiki page for images from either this show or this episode mostly because alot of the images are high quality which for me and i'm guessing alot of you is a really big thing.