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LET US PREY Ashley Scott, Dina Meyer, and Rachel Skarsten, now on DVD, where the passage of time suggests it's not quite fair to say the comics-based series was for the Birds
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DVD Release Date: Jul 15, 2008; With: Dina Meyer, Boyan Milushev, Ashley Scott and Rachel Skarsten
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By Marc Bernardin
Marc Bernardin
Marc Bernardin

Nearly six years after the show premiered on The WB to venomous hatred from comic-book fans, a startling realization rears its ugly head — Birds of Prey isn't that bad. Yes, it played fast and loose with its origins: ''New'' Gotham is completely devoid of its Dark Knight; the Huntress, once a mobster's kid, is now the superpowered daughter of Batman and Catwoman; and Dinah Lance is a psychic teen instead of a tough-as-nails adult. But BOP is an eminently watchable crime-of-the-week diversion, made more so by Ashley Scott's kung-fu spunk as Huntress and Dina Meyer's maturity as the handicapped ex-Batgirl. The four-disc set boasts all 30 episodes of the animated Gotham Girls Internet series and the unaired BOP pilot — notable only for the presence of Sherilyn Fenn as Harleen Quinzel, a.k.a. Big Bad. Mia Sara, another geek goddess, replaced her. B


Posted Jul 11, 2008
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