Harley QuinnShowrunners to Fans Who Want Joker Romance: LMAO, No

Season three of DC animated seriesHarley Quinn is now well out onHBO Max , and showrunners Justin Halpen and Patrick Schumacker sit down with theAV Clubto view up lover on what to expect — or , in the case of a sealed romance thankfully left in Harley ’s past times , what not to have a bun in the oven .

First , they addressed a couple of point in the serial ’ modulation from DC Universe to the streamer . “ HBO Max swooped in , saved the show , ” aver Schumacker . “ From the leap on season three , they were like , ‘ We bonk what you guy are doing . Do n’t hear and fix something that ’s not broken . ’ If anything , they ’ve been like , ‘ Go , go harder . If you want to be even high-strung , we ’re all for it . ’ ”

That include leaning into Harley ’s romance with Ivy , which has had some repercussion fromJoker and Harley shipperswho want them to get back together . Schumacker cursorily wrote that possibility off . “ We still have the occasional lover chemical reaction of ‘ I do n’t like Harley and Ivy together . She should get back with the Joker , ’ which we ’re never going to do . Harley and Ivy will never break up in the series as long as we have a say . That ’s something that we never want to rival again . ”

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Centering Harley ’s rum love life story on her journeying was always the plan . Halpern explained , “ It was always a place we want to get to , but we want to check that that we were telling a story first . How is Harley figuring out her own identity ? What sort of ego - discovery is she doing after this relationship with the Joker , correct ? And so if you just had her jump aright back into another relationship right after that , because the fans are like , ‘ Why are n’t they together justly away ? ’ … would you need that ? This somebody is so sleep with up and just come out of a dreaded relationship . When have you ever in the story of human organism seen someone leave behind a terrible relationship that they ’ve had for a really long time and straightaway make the next relationship work perfectly ? It does n’t materialise a lot . So we need to sort of taking our clip with that . ”

And while yes , Halpern take they are “ two square bloodless dude ” showrunning the series , they take the obligation to be accountable for handling the chronicle authentically with their team , and added , “ We have a lot of people in the elbow room who are queer . ”

Schumacker refine , “ We would credit probably Sabrina Jalees , who was a author on season two and is queer , for being the one to severalise us , ‘ Please do n’t do a occur out tale . ’ And she ’s the reason that we did n’t do that . I think that was peradventure our initial inherent aptitude . ”

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Halpern worst in , “ Which is a double-dyed example of why when you populate a room with other voices who are n’t afraid to tell you what you ’re about to do is stupid , your show just get out comfortably . ”

Read the full audience with the showrunners over atAV Club . Harley Quinn season 3 is now streaming on HBO Max .

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