Batwoman (1×10) How Queer Everything Is Today! Review

For our review of the last episode of Batwoman, click here.

Synopsis: While Gotham busies itself reacting to Batwoman’s awkward encounter, Alice celebrates her ultimate act of vengeance; a devastated Mary focuses on Jacob Kane’s trial; Sophie seeks advice about her love life from someone unexpected. (TVGuide)

Wow, this might have been this reviewer’s favorite episode of this series so far. There was so much to love about it, and from start to finish, there was a lot going on in the most wonderful way possible. Of course, this was the first episode for the Arrowverse shows following the Crisis, so there was a lot to process and catch us up on.

As the episode kicks off, Batwoman is trying to save a train that is headed straight for kingdom come if she doesn’t find a way to stop it. And she nearly fails, until a cop named Slam Bradley shows up to help save the day. It results in Gotham shipping Slam and Batwoman together and sets the stage for Batwoman’s coming out later in the episode.

Kate struggles a lot after the incident simply because she can’t seem to understand who she is. As Kate Kane, she’s a lesbian that has come out to the world, but as Batwoman, she is still “in the closet”. It’s rather difficult to come to terms with these two opposing identities, and it’s what she struggles with throughout the episode.

Adding to all of that is the rift between her and her stepsister Mary, who is dealing with the death of her mother, and the arrest of Kate’s father (Mary’s stepfather). Thanks to Mouse’s face-swapping, Jacob is in jail for the murder, and Mary is hoping to find someone to help back up the claim behind what Mouse did. Of course, that’s proving rather difficult and impossible.

Meanwhile, Batwoman is trying to deal with an unknown hacker who goes by The Terrier that is threatening to out Gotham’s secrets. If this hacker was to succeed, everyone would find out that Kate is Batwoman, and it’s not something that she’s quite prepared for.

Thanks to Luke, they’re quickly able to figure out the identity of the Terrier, who is just an angry high school girl named Parker who wants to seek revenge on the girl who outed her as a lesbian to her parents. It’s all rather full-circle for Kate who spends the entire episode unsure of who she is.

Of course, Alice shows up after learning that Parker is the Terrier, and wants to use her to out Kate as Batwoman. In some twisted way, Alice thinks this will bring Kate closer to her. But thanks to Parker’s hacker genius, she gets a hold of GCPD and keeps Kate’s secret (she learns she is Batwoman after Alice forces her to take off the mask).

Alice is captured and imprisoned–great news, right? Well, sort of.

Earlier in the episode, Mary swears she sees Alice at Gotham University, but when the GCPD swarms the campus and searches it, they don’t find her. Sophie chalks it off to Mary just being incredibly stressed out from the loss of her mother. However, it’s not until the end of the episode that we figure out what’s going on here.

You all remember the Crisis, right?

Well, with the multiverse essentially dwindling down to nothing but Earth-Prime, things got a bit muddled around, including the fact that Kate’s sister, Beth, didn’t turn into Alice. Well, one version of her anyway. This is why when Kate returns to her office to find Beth there, she thinks its Mouse screwing around with her.

But, it’s not. It is Beth. And it is who Mary saw earlier.

So the question now remains, what in the fresh hell is going to happen next?!

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