Poison Ivy may be getting a TV show

In another troubling example of how Batman's rogues gallery are considered oh-so important for film and TV spotlights, Variety announced there may be one in the pipeline for Poison Ivy, at least 60 years after her original debut in the late 1960s:

Another Batman villain may be getting their own TV series.

A Poison Ivy TV show is in the works at HBO with “The Penguin” showrunner Lauren LeFranc as a producer, Variety has confirmed. [...]

Poison Ivy, the green femme fatale from the Batman comics, has never been the main focus of a movie or TV show, but she’s appeared in several live-action and animated DC titles. The classic villain has the ability to control plants and often controls people’s minds using seductive pheromones. She first arrived on the big screen in 1997’s “Batman & Robin” and was played by Uma Thurman. In live-action TV, she also appeared in “Gotham” and “Batwoman,” and she’s popped up in several animated shows like “Batman: The Brave and the Bold,” “The New Batman Adventures,” “Young Justice” and more. Recently, she was voiced by Lake Bell in “Harley Quinn” and played the titular character’s girlfriend.

Much like the overemphasis on Harley Quinn, this too is disgusting, based on how Poison Ivy went on to be potrayed as lethal, using physical and/or chemical powers like toxins to murder people in the Batman comics in past decades. I do wonder, will she be portrayed as lesbian, which seems to have become the norm in the DCU since the turn of the century, recalling the partnership she's had with Quinn in past storylines, and may have been preceded by a vaguely Thelma & Louise-style story in the animated Batman series?

If a lady figure like Catwoman were the spotlight on TV, that would be one thing, since Selina Kyle, by contrast, was depicted as an honorable thief who usually avoided murder and was depicted reforming in later years, one of the reasons she got an ongoing solo series in 1993. But to put so much more emphasis on Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, as has sadly become the norm much later, has taken things much too far, and what if Pamela Isley's depicted as sexy in contrast to how some heroines have been watered down in the past decade? That would only compound the irritating stereotype that only villaineses can be portrayed as beautiful and sexy, and it's repugnant. I will not have anything to do with something that makes a big deal out of a villainess who's emphasized as deadly as Isley's been written over the years. And by the way, wasn't the 1997 Batman & Robin film a failure?