I just caught up with this show.
I can't tell whether I liked it because it's funny and well-written, or I'm just easily amused hearing DC characters casually say "shit" and "fuck". (The truth is probably somewhere in the middle if I'm being honest.)
Here are some thoughts:
-The girl playing Harley is fine. Nobody beats the woman the role was literally written for, but she's significantly better than Margot Robbie or Tara Strong. Most of what I like about her character has already been said in this thread though, so moving on.
-So they made Ivy a radical left-wing eco terrorist in this show, one who doesn't even see what she does as being "evil". She's been portrayed as that before, nothing new. What is new, for me at least, is I don't hate this character. Like at all. Surprisingly, I find her to be fairly relatable, go figure.
Also yeah, like everyone else here, I'm glad they didn't go the lesbo route.
-Doctor Psycho is (to probably nobody's surprise if you know me) my favorite character in this. When he called Wonder Woman a cunt, and got fucking *canceled* for it, by a group of evil supervillains no less, I knew I was going to be enjoying this show. It helps that he did all that while being a character who sounds like low-budget Andy Dick. (So... I guess while sounding like actual Andy Dick.)
-The other members of the crew are fine. I don't get all the King Shark hate. Effeminate gay black man voice or not, he consistently makes me laugh. Clayface, not so much, but he isn't bad or anything.
-Diedrich Bader is still great as Batman, even if it is a bit of a mindfuck hearing him essentially play the same character, pretty much the same way, in two shows as wildly different in tone as this and Batman the Brave and the Bold are. It totally works for both though. Conroy is still king.
-Unlike a lot of you, I think Alan Tudyk is passable as Joker. This is obviously nowhere near the level of Mark Hammil (let's face it, nobody is), ok so it kind of sounds like somebody trying and spectacularly failing to imitate Hammil, but I've heard a lot worse. At least he's copying from the best.
-I LOVE Gus Fring as Luthor. Brilliant casting choice. Give this guy a spinoff please!
-I'm not entirely sure why Bane is this show's buttmonkey, but it's really funny. Bonus points for giving him the Tom Hardy voice.
-As several have noted, this show is clearly cribbing a lot from Venture Brothers, but that isn't a bad thing.
-Kiteman, hell yeah. What the fuck? Why do I love this guy now.
-If I had to give a negative criticism, the art style really doesn't do much for me. There's a reason why I've been talking how most of these characters *sound* and not how they look.
-I wouldn't mind seeing a shared universe pop up with more of these characters and with this same "mature" tone.
-I can't tell whether this show is laughing with or at the social justards yet, and that's ended up biting me in the ass before... but I'll be keeping up with it for now.
