Just binge watched the whole series, it's so funny. I wasnt a fan of James Adomian as Bane but it grew on me. I'm also a sucker for any show that calls Henry Kissinger a war criminal
It's consistently very violent. Lots of bones popping out of broken legs, face parts being bitten off, heads being bitten off, heads getting stabbed through, faces melting, bodies/heads exploding, and general dismemberment.
There is plenty of violence, and some creepy parts.
Joker is not directly involved for most of the show, and it sets him up as by far the most extreme of the villains.
Most of the show seems fine to me, but there are two specific examples I can remember that are worse than the flesh melting:
- bloody shock humor S01E11: spoiler if you watch more than a few seconds
- kinda jump scare from S02E3: cause I'll take blood over crisps any day
I actually enjoyed the whole series, even if it had some clear, glaring problems with its writing and presentation. I will say the first season was way too straight but the second season fixed that, even if the ending felt cheap because
spoilers and insufferable analysis of fucking shipping of all things why the hell am I writing this nonsense at 5 am
the driving conflict of the season was just resolved in the last couple of minutes in a way that fundamentally denied the main characters their own choices and agency. It's like both Ivy and Harley ultimately decide to "do the right thing" and so get "rewarded" by immediately having the choice nullified by someone else and getting what they wanted anyways, instead of getting to decisively make their own choices. I feel like it was the least narratively satisfying way to resolve the conflict, it was just an easy, guilt-free way of getting to the conclusion they wanted (and for the record, the conclusion I wanted watching it, because pathetic as it is I'm still a sucker for queer pairings that actually affect a story instead of being replaceable background details): Ivy deciding either way and then the plot sticking to it would have been better than that (even if that meant sticking with what she did decide), having the whole conflict blow up sooner with everyone left bitter and aggrieved would have been better, hell even Harley outright deciding "fuck moral and personal growth" altogether and setting everything on fire and so losing everything she wanted would have been better even though that would have been a much darker and cynical end.
Also it has the best portrayal of Batman I've ever seen, in that he's a pathetic dork whose only powers are money and violence. So all in all for capeshit it's pretty good, especially because it stays clear of the reactionary-by-design structure of capeshit where the primary goal is preserving the status quo or restoring a previous, idealized status quo, and instead revolves around fucking with the status quo even if it's fundamentally for self-serving reasons.
