My Review of Harley Quinn's 3x02: "There's No Ivy In Team"

 

Written by Adam Stein

Directed by Joonki Park

Nightwing (to Batgirl): "Hi, let's try this again. I'm Nightwing."

You got to hand it to this show, it may be about Harley Quinn and her crew but it doesn't mean that they won't show the Batfamily nonetheless. We've already gotten to know Batman, Robin, Batgirl and even given Alfred a superhero identity - Macaroon, but there was someone missing and now he's back.

Yup, Dick Grayson (Harvey Guillen) has returned to Gotham, now as Nightwing and he's not impressed with the change in dynamic with the Batfamily while also struggling to find his place in it as well. Even a simple mission against Firefly has him questioning his role as a hero. Perhaps a group activity can make all the difference. 

Someone who can somewhat relate to Nightwing's dilemma would be Poison Ivy. She's been put in the position of leader Terraform Earth and her great plan to snare a mosquito to help with said plan turned out to be more of a disaster than Harley's usual schemes. Again, surely a group activity might help her out. Funnily enough, it did.

The two doubting members of the Riddler's great escape room activity were of course both Nightwing and Poison Ivy and it was both Harley and Batgirl who brought their respective teams to the escape room, only for Batman to resolve the whole thing in minutes to spare. Still, some lessons were learned and thanks to Ivy, Frank has now leveled up in a big way.

As for Bane, all he wanted was his damn pasta maker back but instead he got his credit card declined and a bank teller giving him some food for thought on his erratic spending habits and mental state. Add in some Carrie Bradshaw style monologues and Bane was used pretty well in this episode.

- Of course Harley and Ivy started the episode stealing Nightwing's ride and ended it with the mall being destroyed.

- Batman didn't seem best pleased when he learned what Clayface's new role was going to be. Damien on the other hand seemed bored by it all but he's still scared of King Shark.

- Calendar Man briefly appeared as well, behind Bane at the checkout.

- Chronology: More or less from where the past episode left off.

There's No Ivy In Team did a good job in introducing Nightwing, teamwork and of course gaining a little momentum in the overall arc of Ivy's plans, even if she's nowhere near successful with it so far. A very strong second episode.

Rating: 7 out of 10