She even suggests Ivy lead their ragtag

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Queer Representation in the MundaneThe third season picks up with Harley and Ivy in the middle of what the former dubs their “Eat Bang Kill Tour”. The road trip around the globe sees them dodging Commissioner Gordon and stealing his credit card info for drinks on the beach flying the Invisible Jet into more birds and generally creating bloody havoc. Harley’s version of U-Hauling — moving fast making grand gestures of love etc. — involves kidnapping Queen Elizabeth II and bringing Ivy to Eden a plant paradise that the eco-terrorist considers her biggest failure. Harls on the other hand thinks what Ivy created is amazing.


She even suggests Ivy lead their ragtag team and unleash her diabolical ? plot to help LOB Directory plants reclaim Gotham.  In other shows we wouldn’t get to see this sapphic couple post-ride-into-the-sunset. For reasons that are beyond me it’s hard for writers to imagine what happens in the day-to-day for queer couples. Here though things are refreshingly different. Photo Courtesy HBOIn fact the friction Harley and Ivy deal with as a couple is refreshingly mundane. Much of the show’s interpersonal tension comes from the fact that although Harley and Ivy love each other a lot.





And have the chemistry to prove it they’re very different people. Harley starts to get twitchy if she doesn’t knock some heads every few hours and she rather spend her weekend attending the Villys — an iconic sendup of Hollywood awards shows — to claim the title of Best Supervillain Couple. Ivy is content hanging at home with her plants or tinkering in her lab even on a — gasp! — Sunday night. While Harley showers Ivy with unbridled affection Ivy holds back in the past she was burned by a casual fling with Catwoman voice of Sanaa Lathan. “After it finally ended I felt so pathetic” Ivy explains to Harley while an Eyes Wide Shut-style cult orgy takes place around them. “Harley it wasn’t even a real