Wonder Man: Kathy Friedman

I’ve almost come to the end of the first season of Wonder Man, although it’s one of the few MCU shows that has a confirmed second season. It’s been interesting watching this version of Simon Williams develop, and his scenes with Trevor have been great. Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen have done fantastic jobs. Now that they both have roles in the movie they were going for, things seem to be finally falling in to place. So you know that can’t last, as we see as the guys are confronted by “Kathy Friedman.”

Doom Patrol: Youth Patrol

The chaotic Doom Patrol series is careening towards their end, and this final season is just crazy as the rest of their adventures have been. A major enemy is lurking in the shadows, and striking at them seemingly at will. Now that they’ve apparently lost the special magic that kept them young, they are beset by a new series of problems. Attempts to deal with that go awry, to no surprise at all, in “Youth Patrol.”

Supergirl

There have been many different versions of Supergirl over the years. Throw in Power Girl, who is a Supergirl variant, and there are even more. So, as a comic reader of many decades, I’d argue there is no “real” version of Supergirl. The new Supergirl movie, continuing James Gunn’s vision of the DC Universe, takes Kara Zor-El’s story forward, based largely on the “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” arc from the comics.

Wonder Man: Found Footage

I often have issues when they take a character who I know and like and turn them into something wholly different for an adaptation. Usually I say the more seemingly random changes they make, the worse the adaptation is. The MCU has managed to exempt themselves from this rule of mine a few times (really, it makes a lot more sense that techno-genius Tony Stark made Ultron than bio-chemist Hank Pym). They are doing so again with their take on Wonder Man, who has very little in common with his comic book counterpart, but they are telling a great story here, which continues in “Found Footage.”

Harley Quinn: Gotham’s Hottest Hotties

The animated Harley Quinn series is back for a fourth season. In an interesting media crossover, some of what happened between seasons three and four was covered in a comic book limited series, “Legion of Bats.” But now the show is back, with, among other things, Harley and Ivy trying to find a new balance in their lives, since Harley is working with the Bat-family in Batman’s absence, and Ivy is running the Legion of Doom. Talk about a mixed marriage.

Wonder Man: Doorman

Doorman, in the comics, is a minor character, part of a group of lesser-known, mostly used as joke characters called the Great Lakes Avengers. He’s actually not the first of the GLA to show up in the MCU, since a version of Immortal Man popped up in the She-Hulk series. He’s been referenced several times so far during Wonder Man. Now, we finally get to see what happened that led to the “Doorman clause” that prohibits superhumans from working in Hollywood movies. Probably tv shows, too, but that hasn’t really been spelled out yet. They use black and white to emphasize that almost the entire episode is a flashback, as we get the story behind “Doorman.”