My Review of Harley Quinn: "Bottle Episode (But Not A 'Bottle Episode')"

 

Written by Jamiesen Borak And Katie Rich

Directed by Joonki Park 

Lena (to Lex): "Fuck Metropolis. Harley's right."

Harley: "Exactly."

Lena: "Lex, we should work together."

Harley: "Say what now?"

Lena: "To take over the fucking universe."

There are times when maybe siblings shouldn't reconcile. This episode proved that point for Harley and Ivy. I get why they thought having Lex and Lena work through their issues would be a good idea but it wasn't.

Lena spent half the episode gloating over having a whole city bottled while sending out her automatons to find her brother. Not that Lena needn't had bother because Harley, Ivy and Sharon brought Lex on the ship for her instead.

Yup, Lena and Lex hashed out their siblings rivalry and banded together to shrink Harley, Ivy and Sharon and place them in the same bottle as Brainiac. The latter spent the episode being utterly despondent while Lex and Lena had aspirations to take over the world.

As for those in Metropolis, we got a good team with Bruce, Joker and Lois working together. First they helped Harley and company get the Batplane up to Brainiac's ship and then Lois had to use Morse code to contact Superman.

At the start of the season, Harley was the one who persuaded Superman to take a sabbatical and Bruce also decided to park Batman for a bit. The consequences of both their absences was felt along with Joker scoffing at Harley's chances of saving the day.

- Sharon might know some handy things but she didn't know that Superman and Kal El were the same person.

- Lex took an interest in Ivy's even redder hair during one particularly awkward moment.

- Clayface and Bane had their moments while Lois might have just gotten Perry's job. She was writing an article about male eating disorders in the superhero community.

- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.

Bottle Episode (But Not A 'Bottle Episode') served as a good penultimate episode. The Lex/Lena scenes worked well along with the Bruce/Joker/Lois ones. Finale next week.

Rating: 7 out of 10