Batwoman (2×06) Do Not Resuscitate Review

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

Synopsis: As Ryan Wilder’s kryptonite wound grows more severe, it hinders Batwoman’s ability to protect Gotham; Alice’s reunion with a fellow Coryana inhabitant presents unexpected complications. (TVGuide)

I need to sit down and talk out Batwoman season 2 with someone because it’s hard to understand what the heck is going on with this show. Personally, it feels like poor and lazy writing to me that Leslie’s journey as Batwoman is revolving around the disappearance of Kate Kane. Ruby Rose left! Why are they spending this entire season talking about bringing Kate back? Surely there has to be another way they can do this! If they’re trying to introduce Safiyah as the “Big Bad”, why does it have to be under the premise that she “has Kate”. It’s just all dragging on and we are so over it.

This week’s episode starts with a young boy who had complications from a bat bite and is given the “Desert Rose” serum which ends up curing his leukemia. When the same serum is given to an elderly gentleman, the experiment backfires and he starts spewing up blood. But the doctor in charge doesn’t seem to care much and he plans on continuing his efforts to duplicate the serum.

Meanwhile, Batwoman/Ryan Wilder’s kryptonite wound continues to get worse with time, and how she hasn’t died from it already is beyond me. She heads to the hospital to have it treated and tells the doctor it is merely a spider bite…and then he gives her antibiotics and sends her on her way. He did notice that the wound is green and pulsating, right?

The Jack Napier name-dropping continues as Jacob learns from Sophie that the painting they had was a fake covered with pig’s blood. There’s a partial print on it which belongs to Ocean, but the conversation is cut short after a truck rams into Jacob’s car, and a man kidnaps Jacob and Mary, who was in the car with him.

Ryan finds out later in the episode that Sophie is building a case against Angelique, who has been dabbling in snakebite. And since all roads lead back to Ocean, Sophie asks Ryan to get whatever intel she can about what Angelique has been doing. And if she fails to deliver, Sophie will put Angelique in prison.

When Mary and Jacob come to, Mary realizes they are in her underground clinic, the one Jacob doesn’t know about. However, the more pressing concern is the man that hit them with his truck, who is demanding the antidote that no one currently has. She reveals some information about the Desert Rose and confesses to Jacob that she been running the clinic for a while now. Meanwhile, the guy (who I’m pretty sure is supposed to be Jack Napier, aka the Joker) refuses to believe what Mary is saying and keeps beating Jacob until she finally tells him about Coryana.

Back at home, Ryan copies data on Angelique’s phone for Sophie, but it doesn’t seem she was able to trick Angelique as much as she thought she did. The two get into an argument when Ryan tells Angelique she got her a job at The Hold-Up but Angelique turns it down because she likes what she’s doing already. Of course, that isn’t the best thing for her considering drugs are the reason Ryan went to jail for her back in the day.

Alice and Ocean attempt to piece together their lost memories which were apparently erased courtesy of Safiyah. The only thing we do know from the fleeting flashbacks is that they were a couple or hooked up in the past. At some point, Sophie shows up to confront Ocean just as Alice is trying to kill him per Safiyah’s orders. Sophie demands the Napier painting that she knows Ocean has, but instead, he lights it on fire and a map is revealed on it. Luke calls Sophie and tells her to head to the clinic where Mary and Jacob are being held hostage. When she gets there, Jacob wrangles free but two men show up and steal the map from Sophie.

As the episode comes to a close, Mary and Jacob have an argument over her clinic that Jacob plans to shut down because it’s illegal. Mary is upset with him because her mother knew about it and was proud of the work she had been doing, unlike Jacob who hasn’t paid much attention to her at all over the years. And then there’s Alice who we see stabbing someone we think to be Ocean. However, it’s not Ocean, who is very much alive per their plan to trick Safiyah into thinking she really did kill him.

Once again, Batwoman was boring and all over the place, and it simply was not satisfying. Let’s hope they start changing up the story at some point or else it just might not be worth the watch anymore.

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