Batwoman - Série 3

The development of the Batwoman series is truly intriguing. The first season emerged at a time when the Arrowverse was expanding into unprecedented dimensions. The solo "Batwoman" series had a great reputation among readers after 2011, but the fundamental problem was that its comic book depiction was geared towards adults, while CW series are pure teen entertainment. What they managed with this conflict in the first season was a clear compromise, whose effects we see primarily in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 2 crossover. Ruby Rose played a generic lesbian with a short haircut and in the larger DC team, she seemed out of place. That's why the first season was easily dominated by Rachel Skarsten as the villain Alice, stylized into a dark version of Lewis Carroll's world. In the second season, there was a recast after Ruby Rose's spinal injury, and thanks to Javicia Leslie's appearance, Batwoman became a BLM manifesto, which rubbed against the audience until halfway through the second season, but then it all fell into place. Alice was humanized, the Gotham gang in the new lineup got used to each other, and even with this complicated genesis, the final shortened third season ran like clockwork. The creators began to fully enjoy the world, where Batman may have disappeared, but his villains and their successors are still going strong. Of course, the main antagonist of the series was still Joker, policewoman Renee Montoya experienced another chapter of romance with Poison Ivy, and Ryan Wilder found her biological mother. The almost Oedipal drama always framed the omnipresent L drama, for which even the creators of The L Word would not be ashamed. In the end, Batwoman offered qualities that no one expected from the series, and I'm glad for that progress. (04.06.2024)