Harley Quinn closed out its fifth season this week, a frankly incredible achievement for a show (of which there were not few) that premiered on the hyper-niche DC Universe streaming service for DC Comics fans. (Hi, it’s me; I was the target audience.)

As pretty much the only show in the DC Universe stable to reach a broad audience, Harley Quinn deserves to take a big bow — and it was hard not to think along those lines while watching this Thursday’s episode, “The Mess Is the Point.” The wrap-up episode felt suspiciously like a series finale, not a season finale.

[Ed. note: This post contains some spoilers for Harley Quinn season 5.]

The back half of Harley Quinn’s fifth season has felt like it was setting up a new status quo and looking back nostalgically in multiple ways. Mainstay Frank the Plant got a murder/funeral mini arc, leading Harley and Ivy to a new stage of adult life: parenting Frank’s offspring/their daughter Frankette. Harley reconciled with........

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