My Review of Harley Quinn: "Frankette"

 

Written by Leslie Schapira

Directed by Diana Huh

Harley (to Ivy): "Lena was the one who saved Metropolis."

Can I just say that I'm actually happy with this turn of events. I know we all love Katie McGrath's more sympathetic portrayal of the character in the CW Supergirl show but having a more villainous version of Lena Luthor works better for the show.

Having her actually be the one to kill Frank in order to get both Harley and Ivy to kill Brainiac was a good plan and it nearly worked. Instead, Brainiac got shrunk and bottled and Ivy learned about Lena being Frank's killer through footage on Brainiac's ship.

Also the heel turn Lena did was delightfully campy as well. She's owning the fact that she's the Big Bad of the season after all. She delighted in Brainiac being trapped, delighted in taking poor Frankette and definitely delighted in turning both Harley and Ivy against each other.

Speaking of Frankette, she was a parting gift from parts of both Frank and Ivy and the latter wouldn't let herself get attached to Frankette until those robots nearly killed the baby plant. Now Lena has Frankette so Harley and Ivy will have to work together to get back and stop Lena from ruling Metropolis altogether.

As for the rest of the episode, Bane got relegated to babysitting duties when he wasn't getting angry at Goldie's Dutch teacher and this show really wants to make Shawn the Shark into a bigger deal than needed. He's useful in this episode when he wasn't trying to eat Frankette.

- Brainiac was watching Clayface's performance on a loop with one particular performance getting his attention the most.

- Ivy talked to Frank in the Green and Frankette attacked a robot with her vines.

- Frank really did have a 500+ list of things just to lead into the arrival of Frankette.

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

Frankette served as a nice introduction for the title character while also proving just how delightfully evil this version of Lena can be as a character. Overall, pretty good.

Rating: 7 out of 10