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Harley Quinn (2019)
Season 4 Has Lost a Spark
The first three seasons of Harley Quinn were spectacular. The witty comentary on issues of Harley Quinn's evolution form Joker's Girlfriend to her own Villan was complimented by a ensemble of interesting characters that didn't hold any bars back in dialogue and expression of their own thoughts and actions. The show did a brilliant thing by mixing modern everyday life with the chaotic nature of supervillains and sometimes insane grotesque violence acts they do. However in season 4 they've tired to introduce the hero/villan dichotomy into the show by introducing the bay family and the old Harley Quinn Anti-Hero journey. I'm sorry guys but it just doesn't work when you have bat girl team up and be friends with Harley Quinn after she brutally murders people with a bat. When you introduce hard hitting moral heroes like Batman, batgirl etc, it's hard to bounce right back to aworkplace comedy/violent Villainous Escapades because it completely derails the hero's good intention in any validity. The last two qualms I have about the season 4 is how they make Bruce a horribly desperate loser, especially when it comes to Selina. Batman whole relationship with Catwoman is that he's in love with her but can't pursue that relationship because of his stance against all crime. His jumping over hoops for her makes no sense when his first commintment is always to be Batman before Bruce Wayne. Don't even get me started on Dick Grayson... they completely sucked away away his inner battle of fighting against the impulse to be his own hero that can balance his vigilante/civilian life versus being consumed by Batman's mission/crusade.
House of the Dragon (2022)
Quantity and Quality Mistake
The show promises the battle for the throne amongst the most recent generation of kids and their parents but has done little to actually outline the definitive sides of that issue. Alicent was a great foil to Rhaenyra in the book but in the show they are to focused on putting both of them against the system in place rather than to actually create any interesting conflict between the two. Other than that, there isn't a ensemble cast that provides they're own individual ambitions and backstories into how/why they're interested in taking the throne. And the plot of Rhaenyra's affair has barley been explored which could've been used to accelerate the conflict between the houses but has been oddly been disregarded. The biggest issue of the show is that is tries to highlight and give importance to the characters of the show during the time period rather than the unspoken conflict of the "Game of Thrones."