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She-Hulk Attorney At Law Review: The Worst of the MCU

 The Marvel Cinematic Universe was a truly enjoyable ten years of comic book movies because what made the Marvel Cinematic "Phases" different from movies like Batman '89 and the Dark Knight Trilogy was that each movie in the MCU was connected to each other in one way or another. The Infinity Saga connected the discovery of the Infinity Stones with the main big bad of Thanos. For ten years, audiences watched The Avengers fight people either using Infinity Stones to wreak havoc on the world or stop efforts to find an Infinity Stone for such power. 

After Avengers Endgame, the story continued for the MCU. Spider-Man Far From Home, No Way Home, Wandavision, Loki, Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Moonknight,  Ms.Marvel and now She-Hulk Attorney At Law.

It's pretty safe to say that Marvel has not slowed down on putting out new movies or television shows for Marvel fans to watch and try to keep those Disney Plus subscribers interested in the exclusive Marvel content on offer.Sadly to say though,we have not gotten the same quality of content that we saw from the films or even the Netflix Marvel shows like Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Most of the shows, while they do have an interesting premise, often times are paired with poor quality writing and disappointing conclusions to these stories. Also, what I find really strange, these shows and seasons we have seen are incredibly short. Six episodes here, 7 episodes there, the MCU on Disney + is very short and abrupt with little to no time to fully flesh out stories, unfinished plot points and generally unlikable characters. 

She-Hulk is unfortunately another example of these modern MCU tropes. What has undone the quality of She-Hulk was the writers themselves admitted that they had no idea how to write a legal show. The show runner herself admitted that she never read the She-Hulk comic books. With a combination of writers who have no idea how to write a legal show and a show runner that had no idea about the comic books to the comic book show she was show running, we have a show that struggles to have a solid identity as to what kind of show it is.

From one episode to the next, the show struggles to stand on it's feet as a comedy show and as a super-hero show. The show runner often described it as a slice of life show but the person the show follows has super powers. It rarely feels that way. The title of "Attorney At Law" is misleading as often times Jennifer Walters, the main character of the show, is not the one in the court room dealing with legal problems for super powered individuals and is often times dealing with her own problems like finding an outfit that fits her Hulk persona, finding a date or dealing with a super-powered social media icon suing She-Hulk for use of the name She-Hulk. Other characters  in her acquaintance circle do more legal work than she does and it is this strange disconnect where the attorney we are supposed to follow is not being an attorney but instead we follow other attorneys dealing with legal issues like identity fraud, because the fraud is a light-elf from Asgard that can shape shift, or faking deaths because the person faking their death is immortal and cannot die. The one episode where Matt Murdock comes in and is on the side opposite to Jen, he wins the case against Jen's out right under-prepared defense for her client and loses for something she should have been prepared for.

Yet despite all of that, in the show, Jen is actually nominated for attorney of the year award.

How? Why? I have no idea but she was the greatest attorney that year despite the audience not seeing her be an attorney and handle incredibly tough legal cases or winning most of the cases the show tried to cover. 

The finale, by far, was the worst episode with the most incoherent writing and laughable attempt at trying to achieve comedy by doing nothing but simply being "Meta". The best I can say about it is that it is a nice nod to the She-Hulk comics but that is about all I can say. The finale is just weird and makes no sense. It feels incredibly rushed with little to no thought put into it. Almost the entire cast of characters show up to this "final showdown" but it isn't given any sort of logical explanation as to why certain characters show up to then lead to this "Meta" finale and once again it makes no sense why any of this is happening.

Despite many viewers being greatly disappointed with the show and the ratings showing that the majority of the viewers did not like She-Hulk there is talks about a Season 2 already in the works and that right there is a truly horrifying thought. 

Lastly, who was this show for?

Generally, most shows are made with a certain audience in mind. It was only in the early days of television that shows were made in the hopes to find itself an audience. Some shows did find their audience and stayed on the air waves for a good amount of time, hence why some shows got renewed often and continued to be produced. Today, we have shows that can be made for key audiences and find success that way. With all of that said, I greatly question who She-Hulk was made for. It clearly wasn't made for Marvel fans, it wasn't made for casual Marvel fans and dare I say not even for non-fans because those who stay away from comic book shows after seeing one episode or two would understand that this was not going to be a good show. 

In conclusion, this is the worst that the MCU has had to offer post Endgame. There are very few laughs in the nine episodes this season brought to Disney Plus and the finale of this show was without a doubt the worst finale to a show I have ever seen.

 



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