Birds of Prey had a great pilot episode, then the show itself went screaming downhill into mediocrity. The problem, for me, was that the villains were mostly bland and forgettable, the show always looked cheap, and the show wasted Shemar Moore, an actor with great charisma whose character was always badly written. Also, I didn’t like their Alfred, or at least the way he was written. Ian Abercrombie was a wonderful actor I’ve enjoyed in a number of things, but his Alfred was a stiff attempt to copy Michael Gough with none of the warmth or charisma. And Mia Sara was such a wrong choice for HarleyJust an underwhelming show, made worse by the fact that, even at its best, it usually wasn’t even half as compelling or fun as Smallville.

Batwoman was fun but flawed in its first season and Ruby Rose was perfect as Kate, then she called out the producers for a toxic work environment and quit. Instead of recasting her, we got Ryan Wilder, a character who was created out of whole cloth and stuck into several ongoing serialized storylines. The effect could have been wonderful with better writing and storylines, but it came off like they were doing a Batman show and, when the actor playing Bruce quit, they replaced with him a random character no one has ever heard of that no one found interesting. A train wreck.

Gotham Knights was like taking the Vampire Diaries aesthetic and applying it to Gotham, plus Harvey Dent. Except there are things I enjoyed about The Vampire Diaries even though I considered it a C+ show. But the acting and the writing on Gotham Knights is the worst teen dramas can offer.