A HERO IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THEIR NEMESIS—THAT’S
especially true for the newest Arrowverse vigilante.
Batwoman follows Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) as she
returns home to Gotham City after her ex-girlfriend is
kidnapped by the Wonderland Gang. To save Sophie
(Meagan Tandy), Kate becomes the red-haired
Batwoman, which brings her face-to-face with Alice
(Rachel Skarsten), the gang ’s capricious leader. “She’s
just ruthless. She’s a sociopath,” Rose says of the Joker
to her Batman. “What makes Alice so terrifying is that
you can’t tell if she’s 100 percent bad or evil.”
Skarsten relishes playing Batwoman’s riddle-loving
big bad. “You so rarely get the opportunity to make a
meal of a character,” she says. “Alice is all over the place.
One minute she’s murdering someone, and the next
minute she’s making a joke, and then she’s crying, and
then she’s asking if you have a burger.” But beneath
Alice’s enigmatic exterior is a tragic and potentially
sympathetic backstory. “Getting to motivate all the bad
things that she does from that place, it really makes her
this redeemable character,” says Skarsten. “I think peo-
ple are actually gonna surprise themselves and root for
her.” Batwoman may feel otherwise.ARRoWVBATWOMAN
New Drama � OCT—6 � 8 pm � THE CWOn this moody drama—
based on novelist Tana
French’s Dublin Murder
Squad books In the
Woods and The Likeness—
two detectives (Sarah
Greene and Killian Scott)
investigate the killing of a
girl whose body was found
in the same wooded
area where two kids went missing 20 years earlier. Scott teases
that viewers can expect a tense thriller and, as any fan of
French’s books would guess, plenty of misdirection. “There’s
woods, there’s a wolf, and people are very clearly having mental
breakdowns—there’s lots of very rich and very dark edge-of-
your-seat material,” he says. “I think it does its audience a lot of
credit; it’s not trying to give away too much.” —LAUREN HUFFDublinMurdersNew Drama
NOV—10 � 8 pm � STARZ↓ Sarah Greene with Killian ScottS
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