Newly minted as a member of the Legion of Doom but missing her best buddy Ivy, Harley gets a little too distracted for the liking of her crew.

So after eight episodes of trying, Harley is finally a member of the Legion of Doom, and Joker is suddenly being suspiciously pleasant to her. But after all the growing she’s done so far, there’s no way she’s going to fall for his nonsense again, right?

If your answer to that was ‘Well, she probably will’, then award yourself the disappointing prize of your choice, because of course she starts to fall for the fact that he’s suddenly listening to her ideas, paying attention to her and generally treating her with respect. Could he really have turned over a new leaf and genuinely want to make things right between them as professional colleagues?

Honestly in the episode’s defence the meat of it doesn’t really lie in this most un-teasing of brain-teasers – it’s with the crew, and how they feel now that Ivy has hit the big leagues and isn’t as invested in them and their problems as she was before. Especially as the L.O.D has assigned them the lesser status of ‘goons’ which leaves them not only lacking the perks of full membership but also available to any villain for use at their whim.

It also shows us a more vulnerable side of Ivy, and what’s interesting here is that Ivy’s discontent clearly has nothing to do with jealousy (after all, she turned the Legion down, again) and everything to do with feeling hurt and let down by her friend. Ivy has always been the most interesting character in the show so far, especially with its insistence that she’s not actually a bad guy so much as an environmental freedom fighter, and she definitely gets some good stuff here.

While the main thread goes fairly predictably then, the ending of the episode is rather dark (relative to the standard of the show itself) and it’ll be interesting to see where the writers go from here and if they can break the ever-decreasing circle of narrative that’s plagued the show so far.

Verdict: No majorly offensive content and some actual decent ideas and character work. Better. 7/10

Greg D. Smith