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So far I'm liking it.

I personally don't mind the swearing (it's an adult show about villains). I'm enjoying the new takes on certain characters...and I really did not expect to. Yet they're written in a way that still won me over. The show's also supposed to be a comedy. The typical dark and gothic edginess of the comics can only stretch so far to support that, so naturally some of the characters were going to need a personality makeover to really fit in. Overall I'm having a good time watching it and hoping it stays the course.

I know the advertising may have set off alarms for some people worried it's another cringy "SJW" attempt at hijacking comic icons and bleeding excessive in-your-face girl power all over the place, but...this series does not seem to me like it's doing that. I was pleasantly surprised it does not actually go full steam down that route. And if you pay close enough attention you start to notice that the main characters are just all over the place socially/politically. It's not really shoving feminist agendas down the viewers' throats. It's like the DC version of Seinfeld and if you like that concept, I think it's pretty watchable.

I know there are some gender issue themes thrown in here and there (which makes sense when you think about it considering who the main character is and one of her biggest origin controversies is). However, these moments surprisingly don't make up the bulk of the scenarios, just minor plot points. I guess what I'm trying to say is this is not a "super feminist" show. In fact the main character, Harley Quinn, actually makes a lot of not-so-feminist decisions through out the episodes if you pay attention. Like the first moment she has an opportunity to throw together her own criminal gang, she doesn't race out and team up with angry man-hating she-villains. She grabs henchmen instead and actually treats them on a similar level. Her gang is such an oddball bunch, she herself fits right in with them. I like that.

I know one gripe by critics so far has been the gender political introduction of the Queen of Fables, who's initial thing is how she's convinced she can't be a successful female supervillain with a gang because "waah gender discrimination". However, I think a lot of the critics bothered by that don't realize that the show is full of comical tropes and cliches that play with the comedy. And the Queen is actually one herself: she's the classic bitter woman who ironically plays the victim and blames the world for her embarrassing past instead of admitting it was just her turn as a supervillain to get deservingly stomped by the Justice League. It actually had nothing to do with her gender; one the most powerful female Leaguers basically shoved her into a literary pokeball.

I don't know, I'm just not seeing any heavy political red flags so far. Me and my comic fan friends are happy for that and the goofy twists keep us interested. I hope the series stays that way.

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