My Review of Harley Quinn's 4x05: "Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up"

 

Written by Jen Chuck

Directed by Joonki Park 

Harley (to Barbara): "Oh, Nightwing's here and he's wearing my friendship bracelet."

They did not just do that, did they? Here's hoping not or a lot of Nightwing fans are going to be upset. Nightwing cannot be dead, right? Then again, this is a show that has wasted The Penguin and Mr Freeze.

For the most part of this episode, Nightwing refused every attempt that Harley made to be closer to the Bat Family. He rejected her quips during fights, her attempts to help during fights, a friendship bracelet and even to help find a "missing" Batgirl. This version of Nightwing's a bit too tightly wound.

Anyways while Nightwing wasn't Team Harley, Barbara's roommate, Alysia Yeoh was a bit more receptive and even went to the snowy location that Barbara was actually at. Alysia even managed to get to the bottom of Harley's sleepwalking issues but Harley sidestepped that one for now.

However with Barbara being safe and just caught up in her parents messy reunion, there were some nice scenes between Babs, Harley and Alysia before the episode ended with a dead Nightwing. Really hoping that one doesn't stick.

As for Ivy this week, her co-workers were loving her antics on the Moon and Lex even assigned her his PR Team, who were mostly annoying. Ivy's newfound success also saw her isolating herself not only from Harley and Frank but also her mentees. 

The mentees being Volcana, Terra and Tefe Holland, none of whom were pleased with her dropping her attention from them. Yeah, Ivy's moving up in the world with her Socially Conscious Evil story but losing a bit of herself too.

- Commissioner Gordon got a security guard job at the Legion of Doom. Nora put little thought in hiring him.

- The Ice Park had Captain Cold, Blue Snowman and Icicle in the mix. Supergirl also performed LASIK surgery on Harley.

- Harley kept telling Alysia about the swim team but it seemed like the latter was aware of the Bat Family. Oh and we saw Bud and Lou.

- Chronology: Not long from where the previous episode left off.

I'm hoping that Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up isn't the end of Nightwing on this show. Other than that mild concern, another very enjoyable episode this week. This season has been very good so far.

Rating: 8 out of 10