zip90 said:

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Bane continues to steal the show.

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cbr said:

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Would anyone be willing to give a bit of a summary of plot and characters?

I have tried to catch a few intermittent minutes of the movie(s) but it didnt hold me at all. Maybe the whole thing isnt for me or maybe i just caught the wrong parts in the wrong mood.

Anyway, thx in advance for any efforts.

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When a sitcom really works, you start pre-laughing. That's when a recurring character shows up, and you just know they are going to say something hilarious, so you start giggling before words come out of their mouth. Enter Bane (voiced by James Adomian), a villainous chunkroid born in actual/metaphorical darkness. Harley Quinn's Bane is always funny, and in the cartoon's third season (streaming Thursdays on HBO Max), he is very upset about his pasta maker. It was a wedding present for Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) and Kite Man (Matt Oberg). But Ivy ran off with new girlfriend Harley (Kaley Cuoco) and the pasta maker was never returned. "It's gauche to keep the gift!!!" insists Bane, with that voice that sounds like a frog sneezing a cannonball.

First, Bane tries to blow everybody up. Then, he seeks counseling. ("My therapist thinks we would all benefit from a group session!!!!!!") That trajectory from explosive to emotional sums up this sneaky-clever glitterbomb farce. Harley Quinn comes on strong with R-rated thrills: Nasty language, an Eyes Wide Shut orgy, blood fountains of gore. This isn't a DC movie where two people kiss once in a three-hour running time. "We've been doing a ton of f---ing!" is how Harley sums up her first few weeks with Ivy. But there's also a low-key sweetness and an edge of genuine provocation that goes beyond shock value. Some of the oldest characters in comic books appear in a new light. Here, Joker (Alan Tudyk) is a proud socialist demanding education reform and a stepdad who always helps with math homework.
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Now here comes another corporate ravaging, and I desperately hope the show continues to thrive. (Hands off, Zaslav, no tax write-offs here!) Season 3 took two years to arrive, and it's generally great. Watching this week's episode, I realized Harley Quinn was my favorite current superhero TV series. Watching the next few episodes, I started wondering if this is the best Batman anything of the last decade.
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Harley and her progressive alien deathcore band are practicing too loudly when Ivy needs quiet laboratory time. The ladies go to a party (the 83rd Annual Supervillain awards!) where their exes awkwardly show up. And it turns out Ivy never told Harley that she hooked up with Catwoman (Sanaa Lathan).

Living-together issues, ex issues, trust issues. We could be watching any bleak-confessional FX relationship sitcom.
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That film-within-a-show could just be one long meta-gag a CGI mustache reference, James Gunn as himself but it's a key thread in an unexpected subplot. Previously, this version of Batman (Diedrich Bader) was a dick-ish Dark Knight joke. Season 3 starts off with a few gags in that direction, imagining Batman as a clingy boyfriend to a tragically hip Catwoman.
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Harley Quinn is on another level, I think, because its creators seem so deliriously unencumbered. They're not following any strict adaptation procedure; their throwaway subplots don't need to fold up into one Phase or another. Like, I recently watched Sandman painstakingly recreate a 33-year-old comic book issue as a multi-million dollar CGI-blasted TV episode. It's a fine recreation, but the original issue wasn't a museum piece. It was punk rock, dangerous new. At best, that's the Harley Quinn feeling.
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AgTrip said:

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This latest episode was good. I liked how they bring in the Super Heros and make them look crazy compared to the villains.


Also, loved the caller on the podcast!

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