SummaryWith Batman/Bruce Wayne gone from Gotham, Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) takes the mantle as Batwoman in the Greg Berlanti and Caroline Dries series based on the DC characters.
SummaryWith Batman/Bruce Wayne gone from Gotham, Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) takes the mantle as Batwoman in the Greg Berlanti and Caroline Dries series based on the DC characters.
It remains unclear how the new protagonist will impact the show's overall momentum, as these opening chapters work to transition viewers to a new narrative schema. So far, Leslie's character provides some classic "fish out of water" levity to an otherwise self-serious superhero melodrama. That novice energy comes at some cost, however, to the series' established emotional dimensions.
After a first season that never quite got off the ground creatively, "Batwoman" announced that original star Ruby Rose would be leaving but that the series would hang around without her. The contortions necessary to arrange that baton (or Batarang) pass mostly fizzle in the opening episodes, fueling a sense that this CW drama might be flying on fumes.
Stunning and brave. Diverse and inclusive. But I can't in good conscience give this show a good review because the protagonist is neither elderly nor disabled, proving the writers are both ableist AND ageist. Fix this for season 3 or you will be Twitter mobbed and shunned from polite society.
The show is so diabolically bad that it's reached un-memeable status. It went so far beyond bad it became "so bad that it was good", and then it became uber bad. It's so awful that it gives your eyes scabies and destroys your autoimmune system.
In all seriousness (heh), I've watched a total of 7 episodes, at different parts of the run, and the writing and "acting" were so criminally awful that I almost lost the will to live. The supposed heroes act like villains, with no moral code or ethics, and the villains all behave like heinously-terrible caricatures of villains. It's as if someone without writing talent was told what the original Adam West Batman was like, by someone who intensely hated the show, and then they attempted to recreate it (with far worse actors) as a personal dig at the entire genre.
Don't watch this show. Ever. (Unless you're a sado-masochist who has truly given up on life, and there's nothing left to watch but Teletubbies or outtakes of The Goop Lab. Even Gwyneth Paltrow's incoherent ramblings about the "suppleness" of her nether regions is a better waste of your time.)
This thing is an absolute dumpster fire. Its so bad one has to wonder if this meant as a parody or if the writers are microcephalics or mentally deficient.