Presenting Harley Quinn as an inmate, not an Arkham Asylum employee, flips her power dynamic with Arthur Fleck. Harley Quinn's origin story in Joker: Folie Deux is more believable due to her new relationship dynamics with Arthur.

So let's deal with the wrong first, because yes, Joker: Folie à Deux was, for lack of a better word, a disaster. The film doesn't deserve the low Rotten Tomatoes score that it has right now, with just as low an Audience score. There have been far worse films out there that are far more deserving of a lower score.

Joker: Folie à Deux picks up a couple of years after the events of the first movie. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is in Arkham Asylum as district attorney Harvey Dent (Harry Lawtey) is calling for the death penalty.

The shuttered Essex County Isolation Hospital in Belleville transformed into Arkham Asylum in the highly anticipated 'Joker' sequel.

Joker: Folie à Deux is framed both as a musical love story between Arthur and fellow Arkham Asylum inmate Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (Lady Gaga), and as Arthur’s reckoning for the murders he committed in 2019’s Joker.

JOKER 2, subtitled FOLIE Á DEUX, takes Arthur Fleck, aka Joker, to his murder trial, where his lawyer uses an insanity

Folie à Deux" follows Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) and Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga) as Fleck awaits the results of his murder trial. Review writer

Costume designer Arianne Phillips talks about tracing the arc of a tragic romance through Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix's clothes.