Toxic

Good but...
I've watched the first two episodes of the show so far, and I'm not sure what to think of it. There are parts I like, and parts I immediately reject. I like that they're not just recycling the same rouge's gallery as every other Batman series, and they're digging into some of the lesser-known villians and making them interesting. I don't like the changes to Alfred, however. Turning him into an ex-MI6 agent (who miraculously can't hear an antique car pulling up directly in front of him)seems like a cheap gimmick to reinvent the character. As a result he seems more like Jason Statham than Alfred Pennyworth. He was fine the way he was, and I think the change was entirely unnecessary.

Besides that, the Batman himself seems like a good iteration of the character... but there is one part in the second episode that stands out to me. He's talking with the woman who will become Katana, and out of the blue starts profiling her out loud for her to hear. Now if Batman was doing this to...

Great new take on batman
Very well done and love the change of his butler!! The villains are fresh which makes the show more interesting !!

Almost as good as Batman: The Animated Series
Beware the Batman had a good start. But the first episode that really impressed me was the second episode with Magpie. Anarky has potential but his episode was fairly bland compared to the others. As the series progressed, though, the better the episodes seemed to get. Humpty Dumpty was a chilling villain, and the League of Shado... er, excuse me, Assassins are intriguing. It was the latest two episodes though, that for the first time allowed me to say that the show was almost as good, if not as good as Batman: The Animated Series. I won't give anything away, but for a while the problem that I had with the show was the lack of emotional death that the movies and the animated series seemed to have through and through. "Toxic" cures that problem from multiple angles, and also makes more connections to episodes in the past. "Family" I loved because of the amount of darkness in it, the thrilling development of Katana and Batman's tests, the twists and the turns, everything...

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