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31 Aug

Batwoman’s Poison Ivy: Bridget Regan’s Most Iconic Roles

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers for Jane the Virgin and Agent Carter. For younger genre TV fans, the name Bridget Regan might not immediately ring a bell. But the actress, who was just cast as Poison Ivy on The CW’s Batwoman, has a long and impressive genre TV resume that suggests the beloved DC Comics character is in very safe hands. In addition to memorable turns on The Last Ship, White Collar, and Paradise Lost, the American actress has appeared in some of the most unexpectedly memorable genre TV roles in the last decade and a half. Basically, no matter…
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17 May

Batwoman Shows Us Why a Group of Crows is Called a Murder

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 14. Batwoman has been going hard on their criticism of the Crows—and law enforcement by proxy—so it is no surprise that the show would Go There. Yet despite the season-long setup for Crows or cops to do something blasé, like shoot an unarmed Black man, the fact that they made me watch an unarmed Black man get shot on my television in this year of our lord is truly a f*cking choice. Is it crack? We spend time in the episode proving that Tavaroff is a racist piece of shit with…
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11 May

In Batwoman Season 2, Superhero Trust Must Be Earned

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 13. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 13 Last week, Batwoman left Alice to fend for herself against the False Faces, after the two formed a temporary alliance to rescue Angelique and Ocean from the masked gang. Ryan’s choice not to help Alice escape Circe’s clutches may have been jarring for some, but Alice has always been a sore spot, and their brief ceasefires are always punctuated by reminders of who Alice is and what she’s done. Ryan may not take revenge herself, but she’s not going to lift a hand to save…
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03 May

Batwoman’s Kate Kane Recast & Return Walks a Fine Line

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 12. This season of Batwoman started out by asking the question: what happened to Kate Kane? And the latest episode, “Initiate Self Destruct,” finally gives us some answers. After traveling to Coryana to save Kate, and discovering Safiyah lied about her being there, Jacob, Batwoman, and Alice leave the island empty handed. They return to the news that body parts positively identified as belonging to Kate Kane washed up on shore, confirming definitively that she’s dead. Later we see a woman in a cell, fully wrapped in bandages, wearing Kate Kane’s…
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03 May

Batwoman: Where Does Wallis Day’s Kate Kane Fit in Gotham?

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 12. Following the revelation earlier this season that Kate Kane is, in fact, very much alive, Batwoman fans have been wondering how, exactly, the former Scarlet Knight might return to a show that has largely moved on without her. After all, Ryan Wilder is fully Batwoman in her own right now and the show has recalibrated itself accordingly. Her unique perspective as both a Black woman and a product of Gotham’s failed justice system has allowed Batwoman to tell the kinds of radically different stories that most superhero series aren’t even…
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19 Apr

Batwoman: Black Mask, False Face Society, and the Rise of Sophie Moore

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This Batwoman feature contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 11. Last week, False Faces ambushed the Crows and abducted Angelique, leaving several Crows dead and Jacob Kane fuming. In this week’s “Arrive Alive,” the masked gang is pulling heists at pharmaceutical companies across the city, all in an effort to create more Snakebite. Batwoman and Sophie are both looking to stop them, and to save Angelique in the process, but when Batwoman intercepts a False Face driver during a heist who turns out to be an undercover Sophie, she ruins the mission and they lose their one lead on Angelique.…
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12 Apr

Batwoman is So Close to Becoming a Truly Radical Superhero Story

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 10. The latest episode of Batwoman, “Time Off For Good Behavior,” continues this season’s trend of examining Gotham’s authoritative structures from new angles and through different lenses. Ryan Wilder is the product of a system that not only did not protect her but actively worked to ensure that she and other kids like her did not escape the cycles of poverty and violence that trap them in lives of criminality. Ryan was adopted out of foster care in her late teens, which saved her, but didn’t spare her from being preyed…
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29 Mar

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 9 Review: Rule #1

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 9 The False Face Society has been flooding Gotham with Snakebite, which is thee hot new drug. And in the absence of the Wonderland Gang, the masked menaces have risen up to terrorize  the city, much to the dismay of… everyone. The gang is led by a businessman Roman Sionis, who moonlights as Black Mask (Peter Outerbridge) and he has a bandaged—and soon to be entirely remodeled—Kate locked away. Black Mask has a grudge with Batwoman for killing his daughter, and that may be his motive for whatever he’s doing with…
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22 Mar

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 8 Review: Survived Much Worse

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 8 This season of Batwoman has focused a lot on the question posed in the season premiere title:  What happened to Kate Kane? Despite what could have been an open-and-shut, neatly wrapped-up character exit where Kate Kane dies suddenly in a plane crash, the writers felt it was important to keep Kate in play and reintroduced the possibility of her survival in Episode 3 of the season, “Bat Girl Magic.” Then, I was annoyed by the show’s choice to recenter Kate, perhaps because I suspected there would be no satisfying follow-through—like…
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22 Mar

What Batwoman’s Wallis Day Recast Means For Ryan, Kate Kane, and Season 2

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This Batwoman article contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 2’s “Survived Much Worse.” While you may or may not have guessed it from last night’s episode, Batwoman has officially recast the role of Kate Kane in Season 2. The news broke via several entertainment outlets last night during the airing of “Survived Much Worse,” right before the on-screen reveal that someone wearing Kate’s red necklace lies seemingly unconscious in the sewers of Gotham. (As you do.) According to TVLine, Krypton‘s Wallis Day will be taking over the role of Kate Kane, previously held by Ruby Rose in Season 1, in the…
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15 Mar

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 7 Review: It’s Best You Stop Digging

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 7 Not to be on the nose, but Ryan is batshit right now. She is dying from the Kryptonite that pierced her skin the season premiere, and while her body slowly shuts down, she is hell bent on a final act of revenge. Dressed in the Batsuit, Ryan visits Angelique—who has apparently already moved on—to learn Ocean’s location, in order to find Alice. Instead of letting Mary attempt to treat her, or doing literally anything else in her potential final moments, she wants to spend her last waking hours killing Alice.…
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01 Mar

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 6 Review: Do Not Resuscitate

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 6 Batwoman is making finding Coryana about something bigger than finding Kate, and that is a welcome development. The Kryptonite that pierced Ryan’s skin is radioactive, and it has been slowly killing her. Safiyah’s hidden island is the sole source of the Desert Rose, and finding the healing plant is necessary to save Ryan’s life. Unfortunately, other parties, Like Hamilton Dynamics, are hip to what the Desert Rose can do and now they’re out to get the plant for themselves, complicating the search for Kate. But Complicated is the modus operandi.…
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22 Feb

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 5 Review: Gore on Canvas

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 5 There is such a thing as doing too much, and Batwoman is on the cusp. The last two episodes have introduced two new characters, Angelique and Ocean, each with pre-existing relationships—and baggage. There are also no less than three independent, parallel searches for Kate Kane, which… *sighs*  Fine. Angelique is Ryan’s ex-girlfriend that she caught the drug change for—a story that has some plot wobbliness. In the season premiere, Ryan said she was framed. In this episode, she says she willingly took Angelique’s drugs (to keep them from her) and…
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15 Feb

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Fair Skin, Blue Eyes

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 4 Batwoman is using its new protagonist to tell stories that matter about the people superheroes (and superhero shows) forget. It is also, simultaneously, trying to keep the audience invested in characters whose stories have run their course. Kate Kane might not be dead, but she should be. After Alice’s and Sophie’s visit with Safiyah where she revealed that Kate is alive, the search for her is in full force. Mary is hesitant to have hope because she’s already accepted the finality of Kate’s death. Luke, on the other hand, has…
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02 Feb

Victor Zsasz Actor Alex Morf’s Journey From Gotham to Batwoman

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3. Classic Batman villain Victor Zsasz burst onto the scene in this week’s Batwoman with what is simultaneously the creepiest and most fun villain introduction on the series yet. Tricking his way into a hotel suite with a bottle of high end champagne, the notorious hitman took out a high roller and his mistress by order of the man’s wife, telling them so as he chased them around the hotel room and killed them, making sure the mistress knew Zsasz’s client splashed out more than her now-dead husband.  The scene is…
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01 Feb

Will Kate Kane Be Back in Batwoman Season 2?

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3. After weeks of wondering what happened to the missing heiress-turned-superhero when her plane was shot down (and her body was not found), the third episode of Batwoman Season 2, “Bat Girl Magic,” seemingly ended with confirmation that Kate’s okay—and from an unlikely source. Safiyah (Shivani Ghai), ruler of Mediterranean nation Coryana and a criminal so powerful she makes Alice quake in her pastel Doc Martens, told the leader of the Wonderland Gang that Kate is not only alive, Safiyah is holding her somewhere off-island. Once Alice is safely headed back…
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01 Feb

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 3 Review: Bat Girl Magic

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 3 In this week’s episode of Batwoman, a contract killer is let loose on Gotham, and Ryan has to stop them before they set their sights on Mary. I want to first give kudos to the writers for being intentionally inclusive with their verbiage but not self-congratulating when they are. Victor Zsasz (Alex Morf) calling themself a hitperson is a small but not insignificant thing. Zsasz, the killer in question, is a fun creep of the week, just committing murders all willy nilly and not bringing any politics or personal feelings…
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27 Jan

Batwoman: How Housing and Homelessness Shape Ryan’s Heroism

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From the very first promo, where we saw Kate Kane give first money and then her gold watch to a young woman panhandling, Batwoman has concerned itself with homelessness and housing. In Ryan Wilder (Javicia Leslie), however, Batwoman has a new protagonist with lived experience of homelessness. Unlike a lot of television shows that use homelessness as a shorthand to demonstrate that a main character is a good or bad person, Batwoman meaningfully incorporates Ryan’s housing struggles into her long-term character arc and how she approaches her time in the cowl. In that first teaser back before season 1 premiered,…
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25 Jan

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 2 Review: Prior Criminal History

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 2 This week’s Batwoman doubles down on an idea first introduced in the season premiere: Ryan Wilder is meant to wear the Batsuit. Last week, Ryan was shot with the kryptonite bullet, which she survived, but is still healing from. The wound isn’t normal, and it seems there will be long-term repercussions for her, especially if she continues to ignore the pain or try to treat it with generic ibuprofen. While trying to procure the pain meds, she stops an attempted robbery, which puts her in Sophie’s crosshairs. This isn’t the…
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18 Jan

Batwoman Season 2 Episode 1 Review: What Happened to Kate Kane?

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This Batwoman review contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 1. Batwoman Season 2, Episode 1 The freshman season of Batwoman made for a perfectly fine show with a serviceable story and people who undoubtedly can act, but inexplicably chose not to. It isn’t bad, but it isn’t exactly good either, existing in some kind of nebulous, mediocre middle ground that can be a dangerous place for series to linger too long in the era of peak TV. Still, The CW show put a queer female superhero on our television screens every week, which somehow still feel progressive despite the fact…
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