![]() ![]() The real star of the show, though, is the rotating cast of customers who call The Guy looking for some pot. Sinclair stars as The Guy, a New York City-based bicycle messenger who delivers marijuana all over the boroughs. Co-creators (and married couple) Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair provide pre-episode commentary, often alongside guest actors who appeared in the episode. This free-form web series was so successful and hilarious that HBO picked it up in 2016 and ordered six episodes, while also adding the first six seasons to its streaming platforms. It’s hilarious, bloody, sometimes heartbreaking, and regularly features an alcoholic Commissioner Gordon who doesn’t understand why Batman won’t hang out socially. As both an animated series and one free of content restrictions in terms of language or violence, Harley Quinn is the best send-up of the superhero world since The Tick. Supported by her best friend Poison Ivy, Harley forms a crew composed of the hopeless theater geek Clayface, the psychic Professor Psycho (who’s persona non-grata among DC’s villains for using the wrong sexist slur too often), and King Shark, who initially just wants to do tech support. The series opens with a final, decisive break between her and the Joker, and what remains deals with her learning to be her own woman and villain in the aftermath. ![]() The animated Harley Quinn series is, believe it or not, the best of them. Along with video games and comics, since 2016, Margot Robbie has played the ruthless Joker spin-off in two live-action films, and the character has made appearances in plenty of DC’s animated features. This is fun, escapist genre TV with enough unexpected turns that disbelief stays suspended just by virtue of trying to keep up with each new revelation.There’s been a glut of Harley Quinn-related media over the past few years. I’m not sure all of the answers in the back half of the six-episode season add up in a satisfying way, especially a shocking twist saved for last, but there’s enough to admire about the entire production that they can be forgiven for not sticking the landing. And O’Donnelly is even better, serving as the narrator of the piece, but raising enough questions about her motives and reliability to keep her enigmatic. It gives “The Head” a unique tension and sense of danger. It’s a mystery series blended with a survival story at the same time, like someone investigating a crime scene while it’s still possibly active. Willaume is a strong leading man, capturing the multiple layers of Johan, a man whose primary goal is to figure out what happened to his wife (and if she could still be alive), but also has to worry about if what went down on Polaris VI could happen again. Creators David & Alex Pastor and David Troncoso cleverly intercut between the current investigation into what happened and flashbacks that fill in the details but raise more and more questions along the way. Oh, it’s gruesome-I won’t spoil why it’s called “The Head,” but you can imagine-but it’s more about survival and man’s cruelty to man than it is outside forces. “The Head” addresses its “The Thing” lineage early on by having the crew perform the annual tradition of viewing it at the station, but this is not that kind of horror series. And then they discover they may not be alone. Johan’s wife Annika (Laura Bach) is missing, and he must unravel what happened at the Polaris VI with the help of the sole survivor, Maggie (Katharine O’Donnelly), but her memory is spotty and possibly unreliable. Months later, the summer commander Johan Berg (Alexandre Willaume) returns to the station to find an absolute nightmare: blood on the floor, bullet holes in a wall when there were no weapons at the station, and the bodies of his friends and colleagues. The sun will soon be gone for six straight months, and that means there will be a limited crew at the station for the season known as the Winterers, who will continue the research into stopping global warming led by a renowned biologist named Arthur Wilde ( John Lynch). It opens with everyone in a cheerful mood even though they’re about to split up. Other than flashbacks, all six episodes are set in Antarctica, mostly at a research station called Polaris VI. The set-up for “The Head” is fantastic for anyone who likes remote, single-setting mysteries (which, I’ll admit is an easy sell for yours truly).
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