MARVEL’s ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’: Not a Smash Hit with Viewers

Ioanna Tsompanellis

Gabrielle Rothenberg shares her thoughts on MARVEL’s She Hulk: Attorney at Law.

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MARVEL’s newest show, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, felt like a letdown that took too long to get to the main plot.

She-Hulk introduces many new MARVEL actors such as Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk), Jon Bass as Todd Phelps (Hulk King), and Jameela Kamil as Titania. Familiar faces include Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner (Hulk) and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky (Abomination).

The show focuses on Walters’ life after she gets her powers. She works as an attorney in a Superhuman Law Division while being in her hulk form. Her main adversary throughout the show is the Hulk King.

The first episode starts off on a good point. Walters and Banner go on a road trip together. They get into a crash and Banner’s blood gets into Walters’s body, making her a Hulk. Throughout the episode Banner trains Walters on how to be a Hulk. However, after that episode, there was too much fourth-wall breaking and cameos that were a pointless attempt at gaining more viewers.

The show also wasted too much time on inconsequential things. Titania is advertised as the antagonist in the show, yet her plotline is simply going to court against Walters over the name “She-Hulk”. Overall, Titania’s storyline felt pointless and like a time filler.

The same can be said about Blonsky’s return to MARVEL. Blonsky is the Hulk’s main villain in The Incredible Hulk movie, yet in this show, he served no purpose in furthering the plot other than hosting an Intelligencia meeting. Intelligencia is a group of Hulk King supporters who believe that Walters doesn’t deserve to be a Hulk, but that their leader, Hulk King, does.

Intelligencia isn’t introduced until episode six, and all the episodes prior to it seem useless. Yes, Blonsky getting out of prison was necessary for the finale, but Blosnky’s release could have been shown quickly on the cover of a newspaper or brought up at a family dinner, rather than getting a whole episode devoted to it.

The final episode wasn’t as good as anticipated. Walters constantly broke the fourth wall throughout the show, but in the finale, it went to a whole new level. Walters is upset with how the final fight is happening so she breaks into Disney+. Walters is seen in her She-Hulk form on the MARVEL page of Disney+ jumping to Marvel Studios: Assembled. Once she is in the show she then storms MARVEL’s main offices and complains to Kevin Feige. Feige is the President of MARVEL studies.

Feige is portrayed as a giant computer/robot called K.E.V.I.N., who determines the perfect plots for MARVEL to receive the most viewers. She then begins to complain about her show as well as asking about other projects such as the X-Men and requesting that her love interest, Murdock, returns for the finale.

This whole plotline felt cheesy and weird. Especially when K.E.V.I.N. asks her to transform back to her human form off-camera because the visual effects team is working on another project (aka Black Panther: Wakanda Forever). It was meant to be a joke but it simply wasn’t funny.

Adding to the chaos finally the final scene reveals that Banner has a son, Skaar, who is also a Hulk.

As a whole, the show felt pointless most of the time and too chaotic when there was an actual plotline happening. I would rate this show a 2.25 out of 5 stars.