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American adult animated television series

American TV series or program

Harley Quinn
As well known as	Harley Quinn & Toxicant Ivy [a]
Genre	Night comedy Superhero
Based on	Harley Quinn by Paul Dini Bruce Timm
Developed by	Justin Halpern Patrick Schumacker Dean Lorey
Voices of	Kaley Cuoco Lake Bell Alan Tudyk Ron Funches Tony Hale Jason Alexander
Music by	Jefferson Friedman
Land of origin	United States
Original linguistic communication	English language
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	36
Production
Executive producers	Dean Lorey Justin Halpern Patrick Schumacker Kaley Cuoco Sam Annals Jessica Goldstein Chrissy Pietrosh
Producer	Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton
Editors	James Atkinson Annie De Brock Craig Paulsen Charles Breiner Andy Young
Running fourth dimension	23 minutes
Production companies	Yes, Norman Productions Ehsugadee Productions (seasons 1–2) Delicious Non-Sequitur (season 3–nowadays) DC Amusement Warner Bros. Animation
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	DC Universe (seasons 1–two) HBO Max (season 3–present)
Picture format	Ultra HD 4K HDR (DC Universe)[ane] HDTV 1080p (HBO Max)[ane]
Sound format	Dolby Digital Plus 5.1
Original release	November 29, 2019 (2019-11-29) – present

Harley Quinn

is an American developed blithe dark one-act superhero television series based on the DC Comics character of the same name created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. The series is written and executive-produced by Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Dean Lorey, and follows the misadventures of Harley Quinn and her best friend (and eventual lover), Poison Ivy, later leaving her boyfriend, the Joker. The show premiered on DC Universe to critical acclaim on November 29, 2019, with critics praising its animation, sense of humour, dark tone, vocalisation acting, and portrayal of the titular protagonist.

The show'southward second flavour premiered on April iii, 2020.^[ii]
On September 18, 2020, the series was officially renewed for a third season, along with the annunciation that the evidence would move to HBO Max, following the restructuring of DC Universe.^[iii]
The third flavor premiered on July 28, 2022.^[4]
On August 31, 2022, the serial was renewed for a fourth season.^[five]
A standalone 44-minute special episode, titled "Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine'due south Day Special", is set to premiere in February 2023.^[six]

Overview

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The serial follows Harley Quinn's misadventures later breaking up with the Joker upon the realization that he does not love her. The first season focuses on Harley's attempts to evidence herself as a competent villain in gild to join the Legion of Doom, starting with the formation of her own coiffure consisting of Poison Ivy, Clayface, Doc Psycho, King Shark, and Sy Borgman.^[seven]
When she finally achieves this goal, however, she inadvertently distances herself from her newfound friends and continues to face up issues from the Joker, who cannot stand the idea of Harley existence a successful supervillain without him. In the season i finale, the Joker manages to take over Gotham City, just to be defeated by Harley and her crew. In a last act of retaliation, he destroys the entire city, resulting in his and Batman's apparent deaths.

In the second flavour, Gotham has go a no man's land, assuasive the newly formed Injustice League—consisting of the Penguin, the Riddler, Mr. Freeze, Two-Face, and Bane—to take over the urban center'due south ruins. Later they refuse to allow Harley join them, she works with her crew to eliminate them 1 past one in gild to claim Gotham for herself; in the process unwittingly inspiring Barbara Gordon to become Batgirl. Meanwhile, both the Joker and Batman are revealed to exist alive; albeit with the onetime now sane and with no retentivity of his old self and the latter unable to fight crime due to his injuries. Following the Injustice League's defeat, Commissioner Gordon restores order to Gotham while Harley begins to develop feelings for Ivy. Concurrently, Doctor Psycho leaves the coiffure to exact revenge on Harley for under-appreciating him and manages to take over Gotham with a Parademon regular army he obtained from Darkseid. To end him, Harley joins forces with the Justice League, Gordon, and the Joker; reluctantly restoring the latter back to his former self in the process. Although Psycho is defeated in the stop, he retaliates by revealing Harley and Ivy had sex right before the latter's wedding with Kite Human being. Though Ivy and Kite Human being endeavor to continue on, Gordon, annoyed that he did not receive any recognition for saving Gotham, attempts to bust their wedding. Amidst the chaos, Kite Man realizes Ivy does not dearest him and breaks up with her. While escaping from the police together, Ivy finally admits her feelings for Harley.

The story continues in a six-consequence miniseries comic book entitled
The Consume Bang Kill Tour, where Harley and Ivy proceed a road trip cantankerous-land while on the run from Gordon, who has gone insane with decision to bring both of them in, regardless of how many people get injure in his way, prompting Batman and Batgirl to endeavor to end him before he causes any more damage.

In the third season, after reforming their crew, Harley and Ivy make plans to terraform the planet, while also dealing with issues that arise from their newfound status as a couple. After Ivy'southward pet establish Frank goes missing, she and Harley begin searching for him, unaware that Frank has been captured past Batman, whose human relationship with Catwoman is failing and at present seeks to employ Frank'southward mutant powers to resurrect his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne. Meanwhile, Gordon continues his mission to capture Harley and Ivy, while as well running for mayor, assisted past Ii-Face, who seeks to get district attorney again and proves to be a negative influence for Gordon. After realizing this, Gordon ends his partnership with Two-Confront and steps back from the election, assuasive the Joker to become the new mayor of Gotham. Eventually, Harley and Ivy discover Frank has been taken by Bruce Wayne and the old kidnaps him before enlisting Doc Psycho's aid to get within his heed and learn Frank'south whereabouts. In the process, Harley discovers Bruce'southward identity as Batman and his trauma over his parents' murder, but is unable to help him overcome it, leading Bruce to resurrect his parents as institute zombies; inadvertently starting a zombie apocalypse in the process. Ivy is able to accept command of the zombies with the ability of the Dark-green, just plans to utilize them to achieve her dream of making the Earth a plant haven, forcing Harley to cease her with the Bat-family unit'south assist. While Ivy forgives her for this, Harley is hailed equally a hero for her actions and realizes she enjoys doing good, leading her to continue helping Bruce as his therapist. Afterward Bruce is arrested for his crimes, he asks Batgirl to lead Bat-family in his absence, with Harley equally its newest member.

Bandage and characters

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Main

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• Kaley Cuoco as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn,^[eight]
  Kylie Kryptonite
• Lake Bell as Poison Ivy,^[8]
  Cheryl, Barbara Kean, Britney Bionic
• Alan Tudyk as Joker, Clayface, Calendar Human, Doctor Trap, Condiment King,^{[8]
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  Firefly, Ocean Master, Kevin
• Ron Funches as Male monarch Shark^[viii]
• Tony Hale as Doctor Psycho (seasons 1–ii, recurring season 3),^{[8]
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  Felix Faust^[11]
• Jason Alexander equally Sy Borgman^{[8]
  [9]}
  (seasons 1-two, guest season three)

Supporting

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Invitee voices

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Episodes

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Season one (2019–20)

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Flavour 2 (2020)

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Flavour 3 (2022)

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Special

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Production

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Development

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On November 20, 2017, it was appear that the then-unnamed DC Universe had ordered 26 episodes of
Harley Quinn, a half-hour adult animated action-comedy series created and written by Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Dean Lorey. Executive producers were gear up to include Halpern, Schumacker, Lorey, and Sam Register with Jennifer Coyle serving every bit a producer. Production companies involved in the series were slated to consist of Ehsugadee Productions and Warner Bros. Blitheness.^[36]
The first season consists of 13 episodes of the initial 26-episode society.^[37]
Animation piece of work is provided past NE4U, Digital eMation and Maven Epitome Platform in Southward Korea.^{[
citation needed
]}

In June 2018, it was announced that the series would premiere in 2019.^[38]
In October, it was farther mapped as an October 2019 premiere.^[39]
It was also reported that Kaley Cuoco would too serve as an executive producer for the serial through her product company Yep, Norman Productions.^[twoscore]

Information technology was revealed that a second season was produced and consisted of another 13 episodes.^[41]

On September 18, 2020, three months after the second-season finale, information technology was appear that the series had been renewed for a third season, and would movement to HBO Max.^[3]
In February 2021, series creator Patrick Schumacker appear that they had begun recording season iii.^[42]

In June 2021, information technology was revealed that a planned oral sexual practice scene between Catwoman and Batman in season 3 was cut by DC.^[43]
It was replaced by a scene of Batman not being adept at giving Catwoman a foot massage.^[44]

Schumacker stated the 3rd season was more hard to produce, but information technology will exist much simpler non having to create ii seasons back to back. Halpern has stated in an interview with
Entertainment Weekly
that season 3 will explore Harley'southward reaction to a half healthy human relationship with Ivy too as focusing more on Ivy's backstory equally the previous two seasons were mainly focused on Harley.^[45]
Schumacker said that new writers from the LGBTQ+ community take been hired because of the management of season 2 and that it is a priority to diversify the staff for season three.^[46]
Schumacker besides revealed that Dean Lorey would no longer exist available to return as showrunner for flavour 3 and would be replaced by new co-showrunners Chrissy Pietrosh and Jessica Goldstein aslope him and Justin Halpern.^[46]
Composer Jefferson Friedman revealed there would be a musical episode coming, and also stated that he wanted to refresh the music to give identity for each character.^[47]
During an interview with
Deadline Hollywood,
Schumacker stated that his desire was to open flavour 3 on "an actual Zoom, where the GCPD is just being berated by the city of Gotham for their ineptitude".^[48]
In February 2021, series creator Patrick Schumacker announced that they had begun recording season 3.^[42]

At DC FanDome 2021, Harley, King Shark, and Kite Human previewed some animatic footage from the third season, and appear information technology would be coming to HBO Max "sometime in 2022".^[49]

A comic prequel to season iii was first released on August three, 2021, under the title
Harley Quinn: The Animated Series – The Eat. Blindside! Impale. Tour
past Tee Franklin (author), Max Sarin (cover art, penciller, inker), and Marissa Louise (colorist), in which Harley takes Ivy on a honeymoon where they face friends they've betrayed, their own feelings nigh how flavor 2 ended, and a few villains and heroes along the way. Commissioner Gordon tries to grab them repeatedly, causing Batman and Batgirl to worry about his sanity.^{[
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On August 9, 2022, information technology was announced that a fourth flavour is in evolution.^[l]
On Baronial 31, 2022, HBO Max renewed the series for a 4th season with Sarah Peters promoted to executive producer and showrunner, since Halpern and Schumacker will be busy with
Noonan's.^[5]
On October 7, 2022, it was reported that the series is getting a holiday special called "Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special" which is scheduled to be released in February 2023.^[half-dozen]

Casting

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Alongside the serial order announcement, it was reported that the producers of the serial were expected to approach Margot Robbie, who portrays the character in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), to reprise the role; but this was false. In an interview later on the flavour ane release, Halpern went on record maxim Robbie was kept in the loop, just she was never interested in playing the part since she was filming and producing
Birds of Prey
at the fourth dimension.^[36]
Other characters expected to be featured in the series included Joker, Poison Ivy, Sy Borgman, Doctor Psycho, Malice Vundabar, King Shark, and Clayface.^{[51]
[52]
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On October 3, 2018, it was announced that Cuoco would vocalism Harley Quinn and Lake Bong would vocalization Poison Ivy. Additional vocalism actors in the series include Alan Tudyk equally Joker and Clayface,^[ix]
Ron Funches as Male monarch Shark, J. B. Smoove as Frank the Constitute, Jason Alexander as Sy Borgman, Wanda Sykes as the Queen of Fables, Giancarlo Esposito as Lex Luthor, Natalie Morales as Lois Lane, Jim Rash as Riddler,^[viii]
Diedrich Bader reprising his role from
Batman: The Dauntless and the Bold
as Batman himself,^[12]
Tony Hale as Dr. Psycho^[8]
and Christopher Meloni as James Gordon.^[viii]
[9]
Shortly subsequently, Rahul Kohli revealed he would voice Scarecrow in the series.^[17]
In June 2019, Sanaa Lathan was revealed to be voicing Catwoman, who was depicted as African-American.^{[nineteen]
[54]}
On July 24, 2019, Vanessa Marshall revealed to exist reprising Wonder Woman from
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
and
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.^[xx]
While on the following day,
Television set Guide
revealed that veteran vocalization actor Charlie Adler has been confirmed to serve as the series' additional vox director with Schumacker and Lorey serving as the phonation directors.^[55]
In February 2020, Alfred Molina was announced to be voicing Mr. Freeze.^[21]
In April 2020, Schumacker confirmed that Michael Ironside would be reprising his function as Darkseid from both the DC Animated Universe and the
Lego DC Super-Villains
video game.^[16]

In June 2021, Sam Richardson was announced as having joined the cast as Swamp Affair.^[22]
[23]
In March 2022, filmmaker James Gunn announced he will voice himself in the show's tertiary season; the showrunners contacted him on Twitter virtually making an advent, knowing he was a fan of the prove.^[15]
[56]
Gunn recorded his lines remotely, as he was directing his DCEU series
Peacemaker
in Vancouver, Canada, while season three was beingness developed.^[56]
That same calendar month, Harvey Guillén was cast to play Nightwing.^[57]

Music

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Jefferson Friedman composed the music for the series. WaterTower Music released the soundtrack album for flavour 1 on Baronial 21, 2020. The flavour 2 album was released on the same day.^[58]

LGBTQ representation

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In the DC Universe, Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel) and Poison Ivy (Dr. Pamela Isley) started as friends.^[59]
In the comics, Harley and Ivy even referred to each other equally "Peanut" and "Pam-A-Lamb". The writers took detect giving them moments of birthday kisses and taking showers together making their friendship more intimate.^[59]
Harley Quinn's and Toxicant Ivy's human relationship took a plow in
Gotham City Sirens
when Harley whispers into Ivy's ear that the reason she "saves her" from the Joker is due to her romantic feelings for her, although the scene ends with Harley going back to Joker.^[threescore]
It was not until the 2013 Amanda Connor and Jimmy Palmiotti's
Harley Quinn
comic series where they are shown in a romantic coupling instead of friendship.^[lx]
Harley refers to Ivy as her "hot girlfriend" and the 2 are in an open human relationship where they tin can pursue other partners while remaining defended to each other.^[threescore]
Outside the primary universe, Harley and Ivy fifty-fifty got married in
Injustice 2.^[59]

In the May 15, 2020, episode "There'south No Place to Go But Down" Harley Quinn saved her partner-in-crime, Poison Ivy; both kissed each other after they escaped from prison.^[61]
The critic who reviewed the episode stated that Harley and Ivy's romance was a "ho-hum burn", calculation that this honey affair could turn into a "more than realistic exploration of how information technology feels to autumn in love with a friend or to have an bad-mannered hookup with a workmate". Another reviewer, Sophie Perry, writing for a lesbian lifestyle magazine,
Curve, noted how queerbaiting has long endured in LGBTQ+ representation, noting how She-Ra and Harley Quinn both had same-sex kisses, happening within stories which could have turned out to be "typical queerbaiting" but did not.^[62]
In another episode, Clayface, a fellow member of Harley's villain crew, was revealed as a gay graphic symbol who had a crush on a male student.^[63]
[64]

In June 2020, in an AMA on Reddit, Justin Halpern, co-showrunner of the series, admitted that the prove missed subverting the trope of bisexuals existence cheaters or prone to infidelity and promised to do better in the tertiary season.^[65]
Halpern also said, in later comments, that the prove takes representation seriously,^[66]
that both Harley and Ivy had relationships with women before,^[67]
that Ivy had a shell on Catwoman,^[67]
and explained how the relationship between Harley and Ivy developed.^[68]

In 2021, the series was nominated for a GLAAD Media Honor for Outstanding Comedy Series.^[69]
The series was also nominated for several awards at Autostraddle’due south quaternary Annual Gay Emmys, in the categories of "Best Episode with LGBTQ+ Themes" for the episode "Something Borrowed," and "Outstanding Animated Series".^[70]
The trailer for the evidence's third flavor, which came out in October 2021, was described every bit showing that the series is "for the gays".^[71]

Release

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Harley Quinn
premiered on DC Universe on November 29, 2019.^[72]
On October 3, 2018, ahead of the annual New York Comic Con, a teaser trailer featuring Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Batman in Arkham was released.^[73]
A total, uncensored trailer set up to Joan Jett's embrace of the theme song from
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
was released on July 20, 2019, to coincide with the panel at San Diego Comic-Con.^[74]
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On Dec viii, 2019, the showtime episode was shown as a special presentation on TBS. Season 1 started airing on Syfy on May three, 2020.^[76]
The series has aired on Adult Swim in Canada, with new episodes airing a calendar week afterwards their American premiere.^[77]
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The series started airing on E4 in the U.k. and Ireland on May 7, 2020.^[79]
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The series debuted on HBO Max on August 1, 2020.^[81]
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In the United States, Adult Swim'due south Toonami programming block aired a marathon of the first season on the night of August 7–8, 2021. On June 23, 2022, the series began ambulation on TNT.^[83]
In the Eastern Europe, the series became available on March 8, 2022, via HBO Max.

The second season was available to stream on April 3, 2020, on DC Universe.^[41]
An original brusque featuring Harley answering questions from fans was released online during DC FanDome in 2020.^[84]

The outset three episodes of flavour 3 were released on July 28, 2022, on HBO Max, with the remaining seven episodes released weekly until September 15, 2022.^[4]

Dwelling house media

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The get-go flavour was released on DVD on June 2, 2020, and the second season was released on February sixteen, 2021, past Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The first two seasons were also released on Blu-ray past Warner Bros. Home Amusement under the Warner Archive Collection on February 16, 2021.^[85]

Digitally, the get-go two seasons are also available for digital purchase on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes.^[86]

Reception

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Audition viewership

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According to Reelgood,
Harley Quinn
has ranked amid the peak 30 comic volume Television receiver shows across all streaming services.^[87]
According to Parrot Analytics, since the pandemic began, the serial has ranked among the elevation 10 most in-need digital serial in five months and ranked as HBO Max’due south 8th most in-need series overall domestically.^[87]

Critical response

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On Rotten Tomatoes, the beginning flavor has an blessing rating of 88% based on 32 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of viii.25/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A strong voice cast and an even stronger grasp of what makes its titular antiheroine so beloved make
Harley Quinn
a violently delightful—and surprisingly insightful—addition to the DC animated universe."^[88]
The 2d season has an approval rating of 100% based on xx reviews with an average rating of 9/ten, and a critical consensus stating, "Harley Quinn
maintains its frenetic energy and sense of humor while doubling downwards on the shenanigans and giving its titular anti-heroine even more room to play."^[89]
The third season has an approval rating of 100% based on 18 reviews with an boilerplate rating of 9/ten, and a critical consensus stating, "Who woulda idea? —
Harley Quinn
graduates from a ribald spoof into one of the almost heartening additions to the DC canon in a diabolically clever and emotionally textured third flavor."^[90]
On Metacritic, the show has a weighted boilerplate score of 82 out of 100, based on reviews from seven critics, indicating "universal acclamation".^[91]

Caroline Framke of
Variety
wrote: "The animation feels like that of a typical Saturday morning cartoon, merely its acidic scripts and shocking bursts of gore reminds you lot that
Harley Quinn
is taking total advantage of ambulation on a streaming service without censors. ... Sharp voice performances across the board from actors clearly relishing the risk to play in this world also prove too fun to resist. ... Most importantly, Harley gets to be an entire person all her ain, equally heartbreakingly naive as she is wickedly strange and funny."^[92]
Robyn Bahr of
The Hollywood Reporter
wrote: "Information technology'due south ane of the best surprises of the year. ... 13 zippy, tearing and irreverent half-hour episodes. ... The writing is frequently uproarious, brimming full of Millennial nostalgia and cerebral gallows humor (the erstwhile may exist low-hanging, rapidly-perishable fruit, but at to the lowest degree the evidence knows how to comprehend its audience)."^[93]

Accolades

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Spin-off

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Noonan'due south, a spin-off featuring Kite Man and his current girlfriend Gilded Glider, is currently in evolution for HBO Max.^[102]
The first flavor is fix to comprise ten episodes, with Oberg returning to phonation Kite-Man.^[103]

Notes

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References

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External links

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• Harley Quinn
  at HBO Max
• Harley Quinn
  at IMDb