Batman Beyond: Season 1 - Episode 7: 'Shriek' (1999) - TV Episode Review

Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils

So far I have to admit that I am extremely impressed with the series, 'Batman: Beyond'...

You would think that it was because of the concept of having the series take place in a technologically advanced future, in which Batman has also adapted with the times... Well that isn't it... But it is the story.

What I mean is that Batman may have had to adapt with the future, but in all honesty, Batman doesn't go super high tech (although he does have a cool different suit from the one that he used to use. In this case it is an old Batman (in a different costume), that has to learn to adapt in a high tech future, to high tech villains... Well so far this new series has as yet not failed to make me impressed with the current episode!

And you know what? This episode may not be the best of the series, but I will say that Episode 7: 'Shriek' is still a pretty darn good one!

Starring: Will Friedle (Boy Meets World), Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series), Sherman Howard (Day Of The Dead) & Chris Mulkey (The Purge).

Shriek and Batman about to go in to an intense round of, 'talks'...

This episode  tells the story of how Derek Powers (Sherman Howard) decides that it is time to get rid of Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy) once and for all... You see, Derek Powers is about to tear down an old section of Gotham City, that Bruce dearly wants to keep preserved... And it is starting to look more and more like he will get his choice!

So Derek puts Walter Shreeve (Chris Mulkey) on the job... Shreeve is grateful, and turns himself in to, 'Shriek', a villain that uses audio to disable and destroy his opponents, and it looks like the only one who can stop and save Bruce is the new, 'Batman'... But he will have to do so before Shriek can completely destroy Bruce, not just in body, but in mind as well!

Batman stopping Shriek's first attack!

Well, this episode was fun, because we got to see Bruce as an old man fighting the good fight one last time... But other then that, this episode is pretty paint-by-numbers, and in all honesty... Shriek... Not a particularly impressive villain...

In the end though, despite it's paint by numbers aspect... It is an episode worth watching, at least I thought so, and you might as well!