Batwoman: Season 1, Episode 8 Review

Warning: this review contains full spoilers for Batwoman: Season 1, Episode 8. If you need a refresher on where we left off, here's our review for Season 1, Episode 7.

For all intents and purposes, "A Mad Tea-Party" is Batwoman's mid-season finale. There's still technically one episode left before the winter break in the form of next week's "Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 2," but this is the episode tasked with tying up loose ends and leaving viewers with a cliffhanger strong enough to tide them over until January. Fortunately, this episode is largely successful in that goal. The rivalry between Kate Kane and her estranged, homicidal sister takes on a much darker and more urgent slant this week.

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