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First off, can I just say I like the thought process behind this show? In some respects, it's Batman Nolanverse: The TV Show, but instead of just regurgitating and rebooting--or doing something like Arrow, which just says "oh, Green Arrow is Batman now, and we're going to call him the Hood, and also Smallville"--it's taking the tropes and themes and telling an actual new story with them. But, for the die-hard comic book fan, you can still have fun picking out bits of Batman in the DNA of the show. Which is a lot better than, I don't know, naming a helpful cop Dick Grayson and then giving him a "clever" "in-joke" about dressing up in yellow panties and pixie shoes.

And you Bat-family fans should love this stuff, since they've put together an entire Bat-clan instead of keeping Batman a doggy-voiced loner. There's Renee Montoya/Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Oracle/Alfred, Catwoman, whoever Leon is (Jason Bard?), and there's even an Ace the Bat-Hound. If a Batman movie introduced all those characters, there'd be all kinds of whinging, but here, it works.

This paragraph is where I single out the episode before last for ending with Bat-Jesus and PoliticalFixer!Catwoman LITERALLY GETTING A ROOM. I don't have a lot of YOU PRECIOUS BBs moments, but... yeah. Totally doing the sex. Also, I love that the show is also silly enough to sideline Carter for the episode with a lampshade about missing all the fun, then she gets to shoot a guy at the very end and Fusco says "GUESS YOU DIDN'T MISS ALL THE FUN AFTER ALL." Magnificent.

And then this last episode, which has Sarah Shahl as a Sociopathic Lesbian Spy (every word in that sentence is 100% not an exaggeration). It's basically the same story as the movie Haywire, but despite the TV episode lacking the budget, A-list cast, and Oscar-winning director, it actually succeeded in making you give a shit about this wacky spy lady and her crazy burn notice adventures. Which, you know, God love Gina Carono and the fact that she can make my neck into a pretzel without trying, but that did not happen. And in Batverse terms, I guess we could characterize her as the Huntress. She's kind of a psycho version of the good guys, who is kind of on their side but also kind of thinks they are SUCH DWEEBS, because they just kneecap people while she SETS OFF FLASHBANG GRENADES IN PEOPLE'S GAS MASKS BEFORE USING THEM AS HUMAN CUSHIONS TO JUMP OUT WINDOWS. Before shooting them anyway, because seriously, fuck you anonymous henchman. Fuck. You.

To reiterate, if you piss Samantha Shaw off, she will...

1. Set off a flashbang in your face.
2. Jump out a window on top of you (which is about as good as it gets in this process, it is all downhill from here).
3. Shoot you.

I'm just saying, CBS, if you wanted to do a spin-off that is basically a genderswapped PoI, with Shaw and Root ~~solving~~ committing crimes and ~~saving~~ hurting people, I am so here for that. So here.