天下制覇

Like twin honey ham glory holes.

Impressions:

I am really doubtful that all the random foreshadowing is going to pay off, and that's starting to seem like this season's whole thing. They introduce or incrementally move on four or five different little plotlines; Ivy vs Talia, drugged up coffee, Joker returning to evil, Steppenwolf just, uh, being around and taking over the gags that Darkseid did some two seasons ago, Harley sleep-destroying air fryers. I have enough confidence in the writing to assume that it's all connected and not just one-off jokes about coffee and Talia being an ass, but none of it is strong enough to make up for the oxygen it's stealing from the episdoes of the week.

At the same time, Ivy's character continues to be completely unrecognizable from even a season or two ago, and hell if I know why she's suddenly a prestige chasing social butterfly. The Bat family having to learn to do without their greatest superpower, money, could've been an actual thing, and I do remember some of the old quips about like "build some damn affordable housing, Bruce," but that entire B plot was barely two minutes from introduction to beating up some completely random Swedes with a binder. It really felt like they needed to be show relying on some super bizarre Bat-Shark-Repellant or something first instead of mystified that nobody packed their batons. Who was doing that after Alfred went to prison anyway? Wasn't it them? Am I overanalyzing a bad gag? Certainly.