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Harley Quinn

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Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 151 Ratings

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DC Universe | HBO Max | Release Date: June 23, 2022

Summary: The animated comedy series follows Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) after her break up with the Joker as she looks to become the "Queenpin" of Gotham and join the Legion of Doom with the help from Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell).

Genre(s): Comedy, Animation, Action & Adventure

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Critic Reviews

100

The A.V. Club

Jenna Scherer

Jul 25, 2022

Season 3 Review: Harley Quinn is both a tender kiss on the cheek and a baseball bat to the face, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Read full review

100

The Daily Beast Shannon O’Connor

Jul 28, 2022

Season 3 Review: The show can only be summed up in one word: as Harley herself would put it, fan-fucking-tastic. ... This season, the show masterfully juggles the unhinged romance between two villains with some downright heartfelt moments. ... Yes, all the dark corners of Batman’s psyche finally get analyzed, and it is glorious. ... Season 3 only continues to define this Harley as the best one out there. Read full review

100

The Playlist Lauren J. Coates

Jul 29, 2022

Season 3 Review: The way the show continues to surprise and delight audiences among the carnage and the crassness is an entirely unique charm that “Harley Quinn” can continue to boast. ... “Harley Quinn” transcends the conventions of the animated superhero series, adapting a personality as unflinching and unique as its heroine and namesake. Read full review

90

The Hollywood Reporter

Robyn Bahr

Nov 27, 2019

Season 1 Review: It's one of the best surprises of the year. ... 13 zippy, violent and irreverent half-hour episodes. ... The writing is frequently uproarious, chock full of Millennial nostalgia and cerebral gallows humor (the former may be low-hanging, rapidly-perishable fruit, but at least the show knows how to embrace its audience). Read full review

88

Paste Magazine

Rendy Jones

Aug 3, 2022

Season 3 Review: The balance between character-driven arcs, overall humor, and, most importantly, a mature portrait of gay romance makes this one of the best adult-animated series airing today. Read full review

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Paste Magazine

Jacob Oller

Nov 26, 2019

Season 1 Review: Harley Quinn is funny, ballsy, and willing to take risks for better characters. ... DC Universe subscribers will be thrilled by its comedy amusement park while casual fans of Harley or smart animation may find themselves with a new reason to subscribe. Read full review

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CNN

Brian Lowry

Dec 10, 2019

Season 1 Review: The result of this very adult comedy (seriously, not for kids) feels very inside baseball -- skewed as it is toward the kind of fanboys who'll appreciate the way-inside jokes and savor the overall naughtiness. Read full review

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Millenia

May 31, 2020

I love it, mix of grotesque jokes, unexpected situations, blood and action. It's great!

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Spadanus

Dec 22, 2019

LOVED IT!!! after watching so many DC animations and getting disappointed, this one is really GREAT! DC made a nice change. thank you DC

4 of 5 users found this helpful41

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viroodiem

Nov 29, 2019

Far and away the best comedy I have seen in 2019. Its biggest problem being that its only 30 minutes per episode.

Animation is as good as anything DC has produced to date. Sound is solid. Casting while seeming a little off given the pedigree of voice actors surrounding DC animated works, itFar and away the best comedy I have seen in 2019. Its biggest problem being that its only 30 minutes per episode.

Animation is as good as anything DC has produced to date. Sound is solid. Casting while seeming a little off given the pedigree of voice actors surrounding DC animated works, it makes sense as it helps to give this incarnation its own unique spin. Even the much complained about Kaley Cuoco does an outstanding job while even leaving an after taste of Arleen Sorkin's Jersey girl we all know and love.

That is where this show shines. While determined to be its own thing it has respect and even drops little Easter eggs here and there to tie it back to the history of the last quarter century of Batman and related media. From the comics, to cartoons to films it interconnects back with such simplicity and ease. The writing itself is as smart as it is smart mouthed.

So definitely the funniest show Ive seen in 2019, even compared to fan favorite things like Rick and Morty. I laughed out loud more in the first 5 minutes (of an episode that they chopped huge chunks of for trailers, mind you) during HQ than all of what I have at this season of R&M.

So why are you still reading this? Watch it and see for yourself.… Expand

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foundfootage

Aug 29, 2022

This is awesome. As someone who has never really been that drawn in by the DC universe and never read comics, this made me want to explore it. Genuinely funny and intelligent with great commentary on society, mental health and the idea of a villain.

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7

JCgamer18

Jun 4, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just watched the first 2 seasons on HBO max. I liked it but it had some flaws. Ill start with the bad. a lot of cursing to the point where it was just excessive and just felt forced while i enjoyed the show this really just started getting irritating after a while. I also felt at times they dragged out certain points like the relationship with Ivy and Quinn. I personally did not like the putting them together as a romantic pair the way they did it was so drawn out it got me very annoyed and just was very annoying and felt forced in a way with how drawn out it was. I also was not nearly as fond of harley as the other characters. She was actually pretty annoying and sometimes her voice became grating especially when she got louder which was just irritating. I was not really fond of how they used nora fries though i felt they just shoo horned her in and paired her with zeus which was bizarre and I felt it ruined her character and the idea of true love that was presented to harley.

The good. I love the cast. My favorite thing was Ivy and Kiteman. It felt like a genuine goofy couple being goofy together. I also loved how absurd some of the characters are my favorite was Kiteman and how you looked at him like an **** who was just hitting on her but when you get into them its an awkward guy trying to impress a girl he really likes and acts like a dork doing so. I also loved the crew members. Dr. Psycho, Clayface and King shark were fantastic additions to harleys crew and really help her stand out as a character. They had great dynamic and bounced off of each other greatly which made them all stand out in their own way. Clayface was really fun and dynamic. King shark felt like a nerd joining a new group of friends and Dr. Psycho the one who pushes harley to be a worse person. It does a great job exploring harley's wide spectrum. I love how practical Ivy is and the landlord Sy was also great. Just had a fantastic cast. I loved the Ivy and Kiteman stuff and how it explored them as people rather than super villains. I also loved the joker and felt that he was a great motivator for Harleys actions and him moving on in season 2 shows how a someone like him can grow as a character. Overall I think its a good but flawed show. I think the shows biggest problem is that it likes to get in its own way with how it handles character development. Some of the characters they brought back were unecessary and kind of ruined some of the lessons that harley learned. Nora Fries being the biggest notice. I also felt they dragged out the harley and Ivy thing which was really annoying but i feel its a show with potential and great promise and if they are doing a season 3 i hope they make the payoff worth it.… Expand

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3

ThroughwithLove

Dec 8, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I initially made this comment on youtube after watching the second episode of the first season, but I figured I may as well say the same thing here.

Yeah, so i hate to be THAT guy, but this show is giving me some seriously bad vibes about its future. And don't get me wrong. I like Harley Quinn. Have been a big fan of hers since Batman the animated series. And I especially enjoyed her in Injustice 1 and 2 when she reformed and joined the bat-family (I feel that version of Harley has the most potential IMO). A series where she gets over the Joker can be done and rather well at that. That said, this show does NOT feel like Harley Quinn. She has broken up with the joker before, but this show feels a lot less like her breaking up with the Joker and striving on her own and more like pushing some nonsense agenda. The Joker's dumb "my fellow whites" line in the first episode was one thing and easy to dismiss. Batman NOT trying to save Harley from falling into something he himself said was "acid" was idiotic (especially considering the dude has risked his life based on far less information to save Harley's life in the past), but I gave it pass. But having Harley "stand up for the other villains" in light of the Joker's bullying /"mean comments about them" and in light of it being "the same way Joker used to treat her" is BEYOND cringeworthy. Last time I checked Harley, you guys are EVIL SUPER VILLAINS who rob and murder people left and right. You are NOT good people and have never given a damn about common decency. The Joker saying "mean things" to Bane is TAME compared to everything else on his AND Bane's resume and villains would probably suspect something was SERIOUSLY WRONG with the dude if he DIDN'T act like that (like maybe he's the Martian Manhunter or the goddamn Batman himself in disguise, which is NOT unprecedented). Seriously, civility for the Joker (or any of the people in this room) is him NOT torching the whole place down just for laughs or spiking the punch with joker toxin. This entire scene felt like a retarded as hell attempt to continue pushing this dumb as hell "I'm a strong independent woman and don't need no man!" mantra and I'm guessing it's gonna get worse from here on out.

Same goes for Poison Ivy too. You are an EVIL HOMICIDAL MANIAC who kills men, women and children just for even looking at a plant the wrong way. You are in NO POSITION WHATSOEVER to maintain any moral highground about the sick and twisted ways Joker treats Harley. Lets not forget any of your nutjob attempts to murder the entire planet (INCLUDING Harley) just because of what happened to a flower pot.

You're all equal opportunity nutjobs who regularly get checked into Arkham Asylum for a reason. The Joker just has you beat for being better at it, which even the likes of Superman has had to learn firsthand; they don't call him for the clown prince of crime for nothing. He may be abusive to Harley, but considering that this is a dude who will toss infant babies out the window for **** and giggles, what do you expect? The Joker does not give the SLIGHTEST damn about "bullying others", much less "misogyny", "white male supremacy" or any other terms certain people like to throw around these days on twitter simply because they have nothing better to do with their lives. He will gruesomely murder you regardless of whether you're a man, woman, adult, child, senior citizen, black, white, blue, yellow, red or green and will do so will do so with a smile on his face. That's who the Joker is and that is who he will always be notwithstanding whatever hack writers want to attribute to him and his "fellow whites." Unfortunately, this incarnation of Joker is just looking to be a foil for some nonsense social justice crusade, which I'm guessing is gonna be a lot more blatant in later episodes. Shame too, but at least it's better than CW's soon to be canceled Fatwoman. That show is cancer. Yikes.

P.S. As a means of being "edgy", I predict that it will actually come out later in the show that Harley is right about Batman "f-cking bats." H'yuck h'yuck h'yuck. So funny. (◔_◔)… Expand

3 of 15 users found this helpful312

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Estr

Dec 10, 2019

I'll open and say that I am a big fan of adult cartoons and that I really expected this show to be great. I saw a clip from this show which made me laugh out loud and I decided I just have to see this. So I watched the first episode, then the second... I didn't enjoy them. Anyone who knowsI'll open and say that I am a big fan of adult cartoons and that I really expected this show to be great. I saw a clip from this show which made me laugh out loud and I decided I just have to see this. So I watched the first episode, then the second... I didn't enjoy them. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a big fan of the tough chick genre, why is it then, that no one seems to know how to make decent tough chicks? I know this is based off of a great comic series of the same name and plot, but the way the characters are written and portrayed in this cartoon is awful. It's like watching a show from the 90's that was just written for teens using the lowest common denominator. Other than a couple of funny scenes (which are few and far in between) the entire humor of this show consists of cusswords and violent slapstick. This show seems to have been directed and written by people who thought Suicide Squad was a good movie, because everyone is written to be some sort of post-modern idiot. You got the Joker, whose abusive relationship with Harley is so compelling and tragic because he's diabolical and manipulative, portrayed as some dumb shmuck completely engrossed and concerned with his public image and tries to be some sort of teen magazine bad boy, going to the legion of doom like it's a 9 to 5 job and being all around more Jared Leto than Jared Leto. You got a wide cast of other villains played but what I can only assume is the cast of Daria back from MTV, because none of them are like themselves. This show was clearly written by clueless men for women, or even worse, by clueless women for women. Maybe a complex character like Harley Queen and the adult themes of her relationship with Joker could have actually been explored in an R rated cartoon and not turned into some slapstick as if abusive relationships are a joke? Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are both intelligent academics and are both portrayed as the stereotypical boredrational and brashenergetic teenage girls, with no sense of the dignity they have in any other media. It's disrespectful to the characters and mostly to the viewers, when two women with at least a master's degree each are as smart as a talking Venus Fly Trap straight outta little shop of horrors who sits and watches TV all day. This show is tasteless, the humor is crude and lowbrow and the writing is terrible. Try to treat the subject matter a little more seriously, you're telling the story of a person, not a caricature, put some depth in the writing and character. The material this is based on is fit for a Greek tragedy to rival Sophocles, take a look at Bojack Horseman, the entire premise of the show is ridiculous to the nth degree, but it can portray adult themes and situations and get laughs and sobs in the same breath. It's a world of wacky animal people doing wacky things like going to the news over a box of cookies, or stealing the D from the Hollywood sign but it feels infinitely more grounded and relatable. People came to see Harley Queen, not some reject from Sucker Punch. Claiming this series has universal acclaim over 6 critic reviews, which by the way, are highly dodgy at best, showing once more that critics in modern society have absolutely no understanding of the art they claim to judge, or of complex ideas in general. I see Haleigh Foutch calling this show empowering, empowering? This is insulting.

I do want to commend the voice cast for their talent, it's just a shame the direction and writing is steering it into the gutter. My best criticism is to drop the abundant number of curses, stop treating the characters as caricatures and start treating them as people. People are complex, there's much more to them under the surface and not just things that can be summarized in a 30 minute episode that goes into their psyche. Be subtle, introspection is not the only thing that shows character development. It's the little, passive things that happen when you don't notice them. All in all, I'd pass on this, to send a hard message to clueless writers and producers to stop treating source material as a joke and start really caring about what you're doing. Just because you can curse, doesn't mean you should. Just because you can be violent, doesn't mean you must. Batman the Animated show has had multiple episodes with these themes and plots about Harley and Joker and was better to convey in just a couple of them more than this entire show is. Shame on Critics for praising this garbage, this is not empowering, this is not what anyone should aspire to, it's just not good, but it can be if the writers fess up.… Expand

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Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: July 28, 2022
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  Air Date: May 15, 2020
Season 1

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  Air Date: December 8, 2019