Harley Quinn - Season 3

The show's second season premiered on April 3, 2020.[2] On September 18, 2020, the series was officially renewed for a third season, along with the announcement that the show would move to HBO Max, following the restructuring of DC Universe.[3] The third season premiered on July 28, 2022.[4] On August 31, 2022, the series was renewed for a fourth season.[5] A standalone 44-minute special episode, titled \"A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special\", premiered on February 9, 2023.[6]

The first season focuses on Harley's attempts to prove herself as a competent villain in order to join the Legion of Doom, starting with the formation of her own crew consisting of Poison Ivy, Clayface, Doctor Psycho, King Shark, and Sy Borgman.[7] When she finally achieves this goal, however, she inadvertently distances herself from her newfound friends and continues to face problems from the Joker, who cannot stand the idea of Harley being a successful supervillain without him. In the season one finale, the Joker manages to take over Gotham City, only to be defeated by Harley and her crew. In a final act of retaliation, he destroys the entire city, resulting in his and Batman's apparent deaths.

In the third season, after reforming their crew, Harley and Ivy make plans to terraform the planet, while also dealing with problems that arise from their newfound status as a couple. After Ivy's pet plant Frank goes missing, she and Harley begin searching for him, unaware that Frank has been captured by Batman, whose relationship with Catwoman is failing and now seeks to use Frank's mutant powers to resurrect his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne. Meanwhile, Gordon continues his mission to capture Harley and Ivy, while also running for mayor, assisted by Two-Face, who seeks to become district attorney again and proves to be a negative influence for Gordon. After realizing this, Gordon ends his partnership with Two-Face and steps back from the election, allowing the Joker to become the new mayor of Gotham.

On November 20, 2017, it was announced that the then-unnamed DC Universe had ordered 26 episodes of Harley Quinn, a half-hour adult animated action-comedy series created and written by Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker and Dean Lorey. Executive producers were set to include Halpern, Schumacker, Lorey, and Sam Register with Jennifer Coyle serving as a producer. Production companies involved in the series were slated to consist of Ehsugadee Productions and Warner Bros. Animation.[40] The first season consists of 13 episodes of the initial 26-episode order.[41] Animation work is provided by NE4U, Digital eMation and Maven Image Platform in South Korea.[citation needed]

On September 18, 2020, three months after the second-season finale, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a third season, and would move to HBO Max.[3] In February 2021, series creator Patrick Schumacker announced that they had begun recording season 3.[46]

In June 2021, it was revealed that a planned oral sex scene between Catwoman and Batman in season 3 was cut by DC.[47] It was replaced by a scene of Batman not being good at giving Catwoman a foot massage.[48]

Schumacker stated the third season was more difficult to produce, but it will be much simpler not having to create two seasons back to back. Halpern has stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that season 3 will explore Harley's reaction to a half healthy relationship with Ivy as well as focusing more on Ivy's backstory as the previous two seasons were mainly focused on Harley.[49] Schumacker said that new writers from the LGBTQ+ community have been hired because of the direction of season 2 and that it is a priority to diversify the staff for season 3.[50] Schumacker also revealed that Dean Lorey would no longer be available to return as showrunner for season 3 and would be replaced by new co-showrunners Chrissy Pietrosh and Jessica Goldstein alongside him and Justin Halpern.[50] Composer Jefferson Friedman revealed there would be a musical episode coming, and also stated that he wanted to refresh the music to give identity for each character.[51] During an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Schumacker stated that his desire was to open season 3 on \"an actual Zoom, where the GCPD is just being berated by the city of Gotham for their ineptitude\".[52] In February 2021, series creator Patrick Schumacker announced that they had begun recording season 3.[46]

On August 9, 2022, it was announced that a fourth season is in development.[54] On August 31, 2022, HBO Max renewed the series for a fourth season with Sarah Peters promoted to executive producer and showrunner, since Halpern and Schumacker will be busy with Noonan's.[5] On October 7, 2022, it was reported that the series is getting a holiday special called \"Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special\" which was released in February 2023.[6]

Alongside the series order announcement, it was reported that the producers of the series were expected to approach Margot Robbie, who portrays the character in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), to reprise the role; but this was false. In an interview after the season 1 release, Halpern went on record saying Robbie was kept in the loop, but she was never interested in playing the role since she was filming and producing Birds of Prey at the time.[40] Other characters expected to be featured in the series included Joker, Poison Ivy, Sy Borgman, Doctor Psycho, Malice Vundabar, King Shark, and Clayface.[55][56][57]

In June 2020, in an AMA on Reddit, Justin Halpern, co-showrunner of the series, admitted that the show missed subverting the trope of bisexuals being cheaters or prone to infidelity and promised to do better in the third season.[69] Halpern also said, in later comments, that the show takes representation seriously,[70] that both Harley and Ivy had relationships with women before,[71] that Ivy had a crush on Catwoman,[71] and explained how the relationship between Harley and Ivy developed.[72]

The first season was released on DVD on June 2, 2020, and the second season was released on February 16, 2021, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The first two seasons were also released on Blu-ray by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment under the Warner Archive Collection on February 16, 2021.[89]

Noonan's, a spin-off featuring Kite Man and his current girlfriend Golden Glider, is currently in development for HBO Max.[117] The first season is set to comprise ten episodes, with Oberg returning to voice Kite-Man.[118]

Season 3DetailsEpisodes10[1]Premiere\"Harlivy\"[2]Finale\"The Horse And The Sparrow\"[2]Release DateJuly 28, 2022[3]Finale DateSeptember 15, 2022[2]Harley Quinn Previous Next Season 2 SpecialSeason 4 The third season of Harley Quinn consists of ten episodes. It premiered with \"Harlivy\" on HBO Max on July 28, 2022 and concluded with \"The Horse and the Sparrow\" on September 15, 2022.

On September 18, 2020, almost three months after the second season concluded, Harley Quinn was announced to have been renewed for a third season which would be premiering on HBO Max[24] instead of the show's previous network, DC Universe which would be closing down its video streaming.[25] At the time, Patrick Schumacker and Justin Halpern estimated that the third season would be released at the earliest by the end of 2021[26] or early 2022.[5]

Patrick Schumacker revealed during an interview that several new writers had been hired for the new season and that they had worked to diversifying the staff more, finding it especially important to hire more LGBT writers considering the direction they took in the preceding season.[27] He also revealed that Dean Lorey would not be available to return as showrunner for the third season and would be replaced by Chrissy Pietrosh and Jessica Goldstein as co-showrunners alongside him and Justin Halpern.[28]

On February 20, 2021, DC announced a sequel comic to the show in their 2021 line-up[29] which Patrick Schumacker confirmed on Twitter would loosely tie into the third season and likely come out before the season's release.[30] Two days later, Schumacker announced that they had officially started recording the voice-acting for season 3, with Diedrich Bader, Jim Rash and Christopher Meloni all returning to the booth to reprise their roles.[8]

On March 3, 2022, Patrick Schumacker revealed on Twitter that they had finished the first audio mix of season 3, along with posting a teasing image from the season, this being the first fully finished (although significantly zoomed-in) shot from the season.[31] The following month, Schumacker confirmed on Twitter that the season would premiere in summer of that year,[32] which was later confirmed by HBO Max to more specifically to be in July.[33] On June 7, the official Harley Quinn account on Twitter posted the first still from the season and confirmed the summer release.[34]

Two more spoiler-filled images were dropped by Schumacker and the official Twitter account on June 27 along with teasing the release of a big announcement the following day.[35] This turned out to be the release of the first official teaser trailer along with the reveal of a set release date of July 28th.[3] Around the same time the titles of all 10 episodes were reported by SpoilerTV although they have yet to be confirmed by HBO Max.[2] A few weeks later, the official poster for the season dropped on July 8[36] and the full official trailer was released by HBO Max on July 11.[37]

According to statements from Jefferson Friedman, the music composer for Harley Quinn, a full musical episode could be expected in the third season.[38] However, Patrick Schumacker and Justin Halpern later confirmed this never came to be although the season would contain multiple song numbers throughout including Joker getting his own theme song and a duet between Batman and Catwoman.[39] 781b155fdc