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Where to watch Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn streams on HBO Max in the US, included with a subscription. All five seasons are there – 56 episodes at about 23 minutes each, roughly 21 hours – rated TV-MA. The first two seasons originally ran on DC Universe, a service that no longer exists.
Streaming options in the United States, updated Sep 15, 2026. More from hbomax.com. Service logos are trademarks of their owners.
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Seasons 5
Harley Quinn episodes 56
Season 1 · 13 episodes · 13 aired · Nov 29, 2019 to Feb 21, 2020
- E1Nov 29
- E2Dec 6
- E3Dec 13
- E4Dec 20
- E5Dec 27
- E6Jan 3
- E7Jan 10
- E8Jan 17
- E9Jan 24
- E10Jan 31
- E11Feb 7
- E12Feb 14
- E13Feb 21
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S1.E1 ·
Til Death Do Us Part
A year into an Arkham sentence Harley is still certain the Joker will come for her, and Poison Ivy decides to stop waiting on her behalf.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Dean Lorey and Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker
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S1.E2 ·
A High Bar
Convinced the Legion of Doom is the only validation that counts, Harley crashes what she has been told is a major criminal enterprise and is very much not.
Directed by Matt Garofalo Ben Jones Frank Marino · Written by Jane Becker
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S1.E3 ·
So, You Need a Crew?
Nobody takes a solo act seriously, so Harley starts recruiting from the pool of villains that everybody else has already passed on.
Directed by Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton · Written by Jess Dweck
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S1.E4 ·
Finding Mr. Right
A supervillain is supposed to have a nemesis, and every attempt Harley makes to land one keeps handing her a sidekick instead.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Jess Dweck
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S1.E5 ·
Being Harley Quinn
Lair shopping stalls on the question of what Harley's brand actually is, so the crew goes inside her head to look for an answer.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Adam Stein
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S1.E6 ·
You're a Damn Good Cop, Jim Gordon
A job at Wayne Enterprises costs Clayface an arm, which promptly walks off on its own and makes a friend of Commissioner Gordon.
Directed by Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S1.E7 ·
The Line
The Queen of Fables joins the crew for a S.T.A.R. Labs heist, and the crew finds out it has a line somewhere after all.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Laura Moran
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S1.E8 ·
L.O.D.R.S.V.P.
An invitation to the Hall of Doom arrives with a condition attached that Lex Luthor mentions only to Ivy.
Directed by Matt Garofalo Ben Jones Frank Marino · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S1.E9 ·
A Seat at the Table
Membership turns out to mean being somebody else's henchman, and the Joker picks exactly this moment to start treating Harley as an equal.
Directed by Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton · Written by Jordan Weiss
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S1.E10 ·
Bensonhurst
With the crew gone, Harley goes home to her parents in Bensonhurst, which is its own kind of villain origin story.
Directed by Colin Heck Ben Jones · Written by Laura Moran
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S1.E11 ·
Harley Quinn Highway
The Scarecrow has Ivy and a use for her pheromones, and reaching her means going inside her head while she is in a panic.
Directed by Vinton Heuck · Written by Adam Stein
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S1.E12 ·
Devil's Snare
Fear toxin herds thousands of civilians toward the park, the Justice League turns up, and it makes the obvious assumption about who is behind it.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Jane Becker
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S1.E13 ·
The Final Joke
The Joker has Gotham, Batman and the crew, and Harley is the only one still outside the cage.
Directed by Brandon McKinney · Written by Tom Hyndman
Season 2 · 13 episodes · 13 aired · Apr 3, 2020 to Jun 26, 2020
- E1Apr 3
- E2Apr 10
- E3Apr 17
- E4Apr 24
- E5May 1
- E6May 8
- E7May 15
- E8May 22
- E9May 29
- E10Jun 5
- E11Jun 12
- E12Jun 19
- E13Jun 26
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S2.E1 ·
New Gotham
Gotham has been cut loose from the United States and carved up between villains, and Harley finds that the arrangement suits her.
Directed by Vinton Heuck · Written by Adam Stein
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S2.E2 ·
Riddler U
The Riddler has power and clean water, so the crew splits — half into his campus, half through Two-Face and Bane's territory for a filter.
Directed by Colin Heck · Written by Sabreena Jalees
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S2.E3 ·
Catwoman
Getting into Mr. Freeze's lair needs Firefly's flamethrower, which needs Catwoman and Kite Man, and Ivy starts asking where any of this is going.
Directed by Brandon McKinney · Written by Sarah Peters
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S2.E4 ·
Thawing Hearts
Storming Freeze's lair goes about as well as everyone should have expected, and the only way out of it runs through his wife's illness.
Directed by Vinton Heuck · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S2.E5 ·
Batman's Back, Man
Two-Face and Bane merge what is left of their operations and cannot agree what to call it, while a recovering Bruce Wayne refuses to rest.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Sarah Nevada Smith
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S2.E6 ·
All the Best Inmates Have Daddy Issues
A living, sane Joker turns up; Harley believes him and Ivy does not, and the story of how Dr. Harleen Quinzel met them both finally gets told.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Jamiesen Borak
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S2.E7 ·
There's No Place to Go But Down
Two-Face convenes a kangaroo court with Bane as judge and Man-Bat for the defense, and the sentence is Bane's subterranean rehabilitation pit.
Directed by Colin Heck · Written by Adam Stein
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S2.E8 ·
Inner (Para) Demons
The President gives Gordon one condition for letting Gotham back into the country, and Harley decides what she needs is an army.
Directed by Tom Derosier · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S2.E9 ·
Bachelorette
A Themysciran resort hosts Ivy's bachelorette party, and the woman running it has plans for the island.
Directed by Christina Sotta · Written by Sarah Peters
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S2.E10 ·
Dye Hard
Harley goes to a bar at Wayne Tower to cope and finds an amnesiac Joker working it, moments before a hostage situation starts.
Directed by Vinton Hueck · Written by Jamiesen Borak
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S2.E11 ·
A Fight Worth Fighting For
The Joker remembers the six months he has just lived, and Harley needs the Book of Fables from a house he has no interest in visiting.
Directed by Tom Derosier · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S2.E12 ·
Lovers' Quarrel
Kite Man's apartment becomes the resistance workshop, and an impatient Darkseid arrives on Earth with a deadline.
Directed by Christina Sotta · Written by Adam Stein
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S2.E13 ·
Something Borrowed, Something Green
The wedding is on, and Two-Face has persuaded Gordon that arresting every villain at it is his route to public recognition.
Directed by Tom Derosier Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Sarah Peters
Season 3 · 10 episodes · 10 aired · Jul 28, 2022 to Sep 15, 2022
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S3.E1 ·
Harlivy
Two weeks in, Harley and Ivy tour the world as a couple while Gordon works out how to get their attention.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Sarah Peters
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S3.E2 ·
There's No Ivy in Team
Ivy takes over leading the crew for her Gotham terraforming plan, and discovers that leading is a distinct skill from having the idea.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Adam Stein
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S3.E3 ·
The 83rd Annual Villy Awards
Harley and Ivy are up for Best Couple at an award show Harley used to win with somebody else, and the seating chart is not kind.
Directed by Mike Milo · Written by Jamiesen Borak
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S3.E4 ·
A Thief, a Mole, an Orgy
Frank is taken out of Catwoman's apartment, and the badge left behind points at an organization Gotham prefers to treat as a rumor.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S3.E5 ·
It's a Swamp Thing
The Green will not tell Ivy where Frank is, so the trip to New Orleans is half a favor and half an attempt to clear her head.
Directed by Vinton Hueck · Written by Rachel Pegram
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S3.E6 ·
Joker: The Killing Vote
The Joker runs for mayor of Gotham on a platform of actual policies, and Gordon's campaign does not have any.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Conner Shin
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S3.E7 ·
Another Sharkley Adventure
Harley crashes a Wayne Tower charity gala to kidnap Bruce, and Batgirl, who would genuinely rather be her friend, tries to stop her.
Directed by Cecillia Aranovich Jennifer Coyle Mike Milo · Written by Sarah Nevada Smith
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S3.E8 ·
Batman Begins Forever
Getting an answer out of Bruce means going into a memory he has never once stopped replaying.
Directed by Vinton Hueck · Written by Jamiesen Borak
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S3.E9 ·
Climax at Jazzapajizza
Frank's power in the wrong hands turns Gotham's dead into a citywide problem, and Ivy can see a use for them.
Directed by Juan Meza-Leon · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S3.E10 ·
The Horse and the Sparrow
Luthor offers Ivy the Legion of Doom, and the price comes due at the premiere of a Thomas Wayne biopic.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Sarah Nevada Smith
The first three episodes premiered together on July 28, 2022.
Season 4 · 10 episodes · 10 aired · Jul 27, 2023 to Sep 14, 2023
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S4.E1 ·
Gotham's Hottest Hotties
Ivy's first day running the Legion of Doom goes badly, mostly because she wants her employees to like her.
Directed by Vinton Heuck · Written by Tom Hyndman
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S4.E2 ·
B.I.T.C.H.
A networking event for evil businesswomen introduces Ivy to Talia al Ghul, who is more useful to her plan than is entirely comfortable.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Ava Tramer
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S4.E3 ·
Icons Only
In Las Vegas Harley finds that her hero reputation has made her a pariah among villains, and decides the fix is a second identity.
Directed by Michael Moloney · Written by Sarah Nevada Smith
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S4.E4 ·
The First Person to Come Back from a Business Conference Without Chlamydia
A supervillain convention on the Moon gives Ivy an opening speech and nothing else, so she works the room instead of the stage.
Directed by Vinton Heuck · Written by Jimmy Mosqueda
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S4.E5 ·
Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up
Barbara goes missing, Nightwing does not want Harley anywhere near the search, and Luthor assigns Ivy a public relations team.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Jen Chuck
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S4.E6 ·
Metamorphosis
The Bat-family splits up after a funeral, and a recovered tracker leads Barbara to a conclusion Harley flatly refuses to accept.
Directed by Michael Moloney · Written by Conner Shin
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S4.E7 ·
The Most Culturally Impactful Film Franchise of All Time
Batgirl keeps working the murder case, and Harley borrows a stolen time sphere to go and ask her future self for advice.
Directed by Brandon McKinney · Written by Alexis Quasarano
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S4.E8 ·
Il Buffone
Bane goes to Italy to fix a discontinued pasta maker and finds a teacher instead, while back home Luthor has plans for the ozone layer.
Directed by Yori Mochizuki · Written by Ava Tramer
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S4.E9 ·
Potato Based Cloning Incident
Harley meets her own clone, who is a rule follower, and Ivy organizes a golf tournament to swing one last board vote.
Directed by Chad Hurd · Written by Sarah Nevada Smith
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S4.E10 ·
Killer's Block
Harley cannot make herself kill the Joker, and Luthor's birthday party on the Moon has a weakened Superman somewhere on the guest list.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Sarah Peters
The first three episodes premiered together on July 27, 2023.
Season 5 · 10 episodes · 10 aired · Jan 16, 2025 to Mar 20, 2025
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S5.E1 ·
The Big Apricot
A year of doing very little ends with a trip to Metropolis for the opening of a Superman museum and the gratitude Harley feels she is owed.
Directed by Diana Huh · Written by Jamiesen Borak
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S5.E2 ·
Back to School
Babysitting King Shark's children takes Harley to a country club birthday party, and the club does not come through it intact.
Directed by Christina Manrique · Written by Leslie Schapira
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S5.E3 ·
Floronic Man
Clayface takes his bad reviews straight to the editor of the Daily Planet, and when that fails his solution is to become him.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Vidhya Iyer
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S5.E4 ·
Breaking Brainiac
On the planet Colu, an information collector named Vril Dox comes home from a routine last mission carrying a shrinking weapon.
Directed by Diana Huh · Written by Katie Rich
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S5.E5 ·
Big Pasta Dinner
Bruce's building holds a dinner party, and before the plates are cleared somebody at the table is a murderer.
Directed by Christina Manrique · Written by Jamiesen Borak
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S5.E6 ·
Bottle My Heart
Harley works out who is actually running the Daily Planet, Lois walks out over a story, and Lena falls out with her partner.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Dean Lorey
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S5.E7 ·
Frankette
A new plant grows out of Frank's remains, and Lena gets Harley and Ivy aboard a Skull Ship to settle a score.
Directed by Diana Huh · Written by Leslie Schapira
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S5.E8 ·
Family Feud
Ivy breaks into Lena's apartment alone to track her down, and Harley takes a phone call from her father about her mother.
Directed by Christina Manrique · Written by Vidhya Iyer
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S5.E9 ·
Bottle Episode (But Not a 'Bottle Episode')
With Metropolis shrunk, the Batcave holds a prototype that might be able to pull a ship down out of orbit.
Directed by Joonki Park · Written by Jamiesen Borak & Katie Rich
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S5.E10 ·
The Mess Is the Point
Harley sets the Luthors against each other, which is a working plan right up to the moment Lena points the ship at a planet.
Directed by Diana Huh · Written by Dean Lorey and Leslie Schapira
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Three homes, five seasons, and the point where it stops being a Batman show
The most useful fact about Harley Quinn is that it outlived the service it was made for. Seasons 1 and 2 were DC Universe originals – a subscription streaming service that no longer exists – and the show moved to HBO Max for seasons 3, 4 and 5. That history is why the first two seasons feel like they were made with nothing to lose, and it is also why the back half keeps having to reintroduce itself. All five seasons now sit on one page on HBO Max, which is the only place the whole run has ever been in one piece.
The break that matters is season 3. Seasons 1 and 2 run on a single engine: Harley wants to be taken seriously as a supervillain, and Gotham’s institutions – the Legion of Doom, the Injustice League, the GCPD – keep refusing. From season 3 the show is a relationship comedy about two people who have already won that argument, and the plots become workplace plots: Ivy running the Legion of Doom as a CEO, Harley auditioning for the Bat-family, Bane in Italy learning to make pasta by hand. If somebody tells you the show “changed”, this is what they mean, and whether it got better is a genuine argument rather than a settled one. What is not in dispute is that it stopped being about Batman. For where its supporting bench sits in the wider canon, our ranking of the best Batman villains covers the straight versions of most of this cast.
Two things sit outside the season numbering and confuse people looking for a complete run. A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special is a standalone from February 2023, numbered 37 overall on the episode list and belonging to no season. And Kite Man: Hell Yeah! is a spin-off in the same continuity from the same team, covering where Kite Man and Golden Glider go after season 3 – it is not required for seasons 4 or 5, but it is the reason a character disappears without ceremony. Season 5 ended in March 2025 with no sixth announced, so the 56 episodes below are, for now, all of it. If you are working through DC’s animation shelf, our Creature Commandos guide is the DCU’s own adult-animated entry point, and our list of the best DC TV shows puts this one in context.
Harley Quinn cast 16
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Kaley CuocoDr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn -
Lake BellDr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy -
Alan TudykThe Joker, Clayface -
Ron FunchesPrince Nanaue / King Shark -
Tony HaleDoctor Psycho -
Diedrich BaderBruce Wayne / Batman -
James AdomianBane -
Christopher MeloniCommissioner James Gordon -
Briana CuocoBarbara Gordon / Batgirl
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Jason AlexanderSy Borgman
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Jim RashThe Riddler -
Rahul KohliThe Scarecrow -
Wanda SykesQueen of Fables -
Tisha CampbellTawny Young -
Andy DalyHarvey Dent / Two-Face
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Rachel DratchNora Fries
- Created by
- Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker, Dean Lorey
- Studios
- Warner Bros. Animation
Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Kaley Cuoco: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0; Lake Bell: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0; Alan Tudyk: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0; Ron Funches: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0; Tony Hale: Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0; Diedrich Bader: John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0; James Adomian: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0; Christopher Meloni: Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0; Jim Rash: Keith McDuffee from Northborough, MA, USA derivative work: CennoxX ( talk ), CC BY 2.0; Rahul Kohli: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0; Wanda Sykes: Greg Hernandez, CC BY 2.0; Tisha Campbell: Valder Beebe Show, CC BY 3.0.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I watch Harley Quinn?
All five seasons stream on HBO Max in the US with a subscription. The show’s own page there lists five seasons and a TV-MA rating.
How many episodes of Harley Quinn are there?
56 across five seasons: 13, 13, 10, 10 and 10. At about 23 minutes each that is roughly 21 hours.
Is Harley Quinn finished?
Season 5 ran from January 16 to March 20, 2025 and no sixth season has been announced.
What is the Valentine’s Day special?
A Very Problematic Valentine’s Day Special, a standalone episode released in February 2023 between seasons 3 and 4. It is numbered 37 overall on the episode list and is not part of any season’s count.
Do I need to watch Kite Man: Hell Yeah!?
No, but it is the same continuity, made by the same team, and it covers where Kite Man and Golden Glider go after Harley Quinn season 3. Nothing in season 4 or 5 depends on having seen it.
