Harley embarks on a heist at Wayne Tech to try to boost her crew’s chances of being nominated to join the Legion of Doom, but hard lessons await her.

After the… distinct unpleasantness which marred the otherwise very good episode 5, Harley Quinn is back on form with a complete lack of anti-Semitic slurs. Yay?

In all seriousness, this is a solid episode, although it’s starting to feel a little forced the way the show has to make Harley learn some valuable lesson or other about herself, especially when each week she does this and then the very next week we are back to her single-minded obsession with being taken seriously by the criminal organisation lorded over by her ex-boyfriend who she’s apparently totally over.

Anyway, this week’s angle is that blogger ‘The Cowled Critic’ throws some serious shade at the crew after their attempt at stealing something from the Wayne Tech building ends in them stealing something completely different and leaving a… unique liability with Jim Gordon which might reveal their secret lair.

The lesson here, hidden amidst all the usual nonsense, is that Harley needs to think of her crew as well as herself, delivered via not only the internal struggles of the crew itself but also the parallel relationship between Batman and the increasingly frazzled Commissioner Gordon. It’s one of the less sophisticated attempts at dealing with the underlying issues of its characters that the series has done so far, but it is at least having fun with it.

Verdict: Getting a little repetitive with the templated format of Harley learning a little lesson each week, especially when a lot of them seem to get thoroughly ignored by the next outing, but it is at least a fun enough ride. 7/10

Greg D. Smith