HBO's Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey is a HBO streaming series created by Gail Simone and Gary Ross. It currently has 3 seasons each with 10 episodes. It stars Kiera Allen and actor/musician Taylor Momsen, who performs the opening theme along with her band.

Season 1
The first season revolves around a mysterious rising crime lord known as Fenice who is muscling in on the Penguin's territory and seeks to unify Gotham's underworld and become the most powerful criminal organisation in the world. The first few episdoes have Oracle and Black Canary recruiting the Birds of Prey, consisting of Lady Blackhawk, Huntress, and Hawk and Dove to find out Fenice's identity and dismantle her organisation. Fenice is protected by Copperhead a metahuman who also serves as a hitman for Fenice's organisation. Other members of her organisation include Black Mask and Tobias Whale. Her right-hand man is Noah Kuttler, aka the Calculator, an expert hacker and information broker who is helping Fenice blackmail other Gotham mobsters into joining her organisation. The Birds of Prey frequently approach blackmailers Brian Durlin and Creote for information throughout the season. Meanwhile, Renee Montoya and her partner, Harvey Bullock are charged with investigating Fenice's operations and eventually ally themselves with the Birds of Prey, Renee has become the Question by the end of the series. In the penultimate episode, Huntress discovers that Fenice is her mother Maria Bertinelli, who she thought dead from a mob hit. Maria explains to her daughter that she faked her death and became a crime lord to take revenge on those who killed her family. This all culminates in a finale in which the Birds of Prey take on Copperhead while Oracle engages in a battle of wits with the Calculator. Several members of Fenice's organisation are arrested, including Maria herself, but Calculator gets away. Kuttler becomes obsessed with the Birds of Prey, and Oracle especially, whose identity he is determined to discover.

Main Cast

 * Taylor Momson as Dinah Drake/Black Canary
 * Kiera Allen as Barbara Gordon/Oracle
 * Francesca Ruscio as Helena Bertinelli/Huntress
 * Yvonne Strahovski as Zinda Blake/Lady Blackhawk
 * Alan Ritchson as Hank Hall/Hawk
 * Minka Kelly as Dawn Granger/Dove
 * Stephanie Beatriz as Renee Montoya/Question
 * David Harbour as Harvey Bullock
 * Rainn Wilson as Noah Kuttler/The Calculator
 * Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Maria Bertinelli/Fenice
 * Alfred Molina as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin
 * Cassandra Cain/Orphan (season 2-present)
 * Lori Zechlin/Black Alice (season 2 only)
 * Josh Brolin as David Cain (season 2 only)
 * Ming Na Wen as Lady Shiva (season 2-present)
 * Jessica Chastain as Kate Kane/Batwoman (season 3-present)
 * Misha Collins as Basil Karlo/Clayface (season 3 only)

Reocurring Actors

 * Wentworth Miller as Brian Durlin
 * Dominic Purcell as Aleksandr Creote
 * Bryan Cranston as Commissioner Gordon
 * Keith David as Black Mask (season 1 only)
 * Marvin Jones III as Tobias Whale (season 1 only)
 * Marina Mazepa as Copperhead (seasons 1 and 2)
 * Sylvester Stallone as Ted Grant/Wildcat
 * Joanna Sotomura as Jade Nguyen/Cheshire (season 2 only)

Guest Actors

 * Jamie Dornan as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
 * Benicio Del Toro as Vandal Savage
 * Ursula Corbero as Scandal Savage
 * Amanda Nunes as Knockout
 * Diego Luna as Floyd Lawton/Deadshot
 * Troy James as Peter Merkel/Ragdoll
 * Jon Bernthal as Thomas Blake/Catman
 * Daniel Moncada (body) and Danny Trejo (voice) as Bane
 * Benedict Wong as Chang Tzu