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Did you ever hate a TV show so much, that you had to keep watching it, so you could have a complete and accurate list of all the reasons you hated it. But by the third episode, you finally admit to yourself, "Darn it, I like this show."  Yeah.  For me, that was "Harley Quinn." This cartoon is over the top graphically violent.  So much so, that even it's characters get sick upon seeing the blood and guts.  Profanities everywhere.  And it's so irreverent with its subject matter.  I mean, this cartoon is in your face with everything your parents taught you was bad. And it's wonderful. Basically, it's the story of a psychopathic, young, attractive, former psychiatrist coming to terms with the fact that allowed herself to get involved in a destructive co-dependent, violent relationship with the king of violent, narcissistic psychopaths.  And along the way, realizing that her romantic partner never really loved her, but loved his violent, psychologic...

The cartoon series, "Star Wars: Resistance" tries to tell us how we got here, with respect to the state of the galaxy before the first of the Disney films, "The Force Awakens."  It is a children's cartoon, and certainly not as action-packed as "The Clone Wars."  The first season attempts to fill in some of the gaps left by "The Force Awakens," and give its audience a better understanding of the origins of the New Republic, the First Order, and the Resistance The cartoon follows the adventures of Kazuda Xiona, a young Hosnian pilot, sympathetic to the Resistance's cause, who happens to run into Poe Dameron in one of his missions.  Poe is impressed with Kaz's skills, and recruits him to act as a spy for the Resistance.  One problem is that Kaz's father is a Senator of the New Republic, which currently has its capital on Hosnia Prime. Kaz, deciding to be his own man, accepts the mission of trying to blend in on the Colosu...

Disney has released its sequel to its creative twist on the Sleeping Beauty story, Maleficent, on its streaming service, Disney+.  Is the second movie, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil worth your time? The original Disney movie, starring Angelina Jolie in the title role, focused on the story of a young naive faerie, who fell in love with a human.  That human just happens to be the self-centered and ambitious Stefan, who violently betrays Maleficent in order to become king.  Understandably, rage over this betrayal infects everything this magical faerie does, up to and including turning the magical kingdom over which Maleficent rules, the Moors, dark, and cursing Stefan's daughter, Aurora, to die by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel when the girl is to turn sixteen.  Maleficent watches over Aurora, played by Elle Fanning, as she is raised in the woods, eventually comes  to recognize the young girl's innocence, and attempts to undo her curse, but to no avail....