She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022 ‧ 1 season
Since its exclusive premiere on Disney Plus, I was totally determined to ignore the existence of the new She-Hulk series, I understood the concept and valued its efforts to present something different to the MCU, but considering the precedents of recent years,
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I also understood that the final resul could not be more than mediocre at best, it did not contribute to my perception of the project that the trailers and most of the promotional content had a strange and inconsistent style,
something that mixed with a premise and character that's quite difficult to adapt It was an obvious recipe for disaster.
Finally, in the midst of the fomo and wanting to have a more solid basis to criticize negatively, I decided to give its first episode a chance, the question is: Was I right?
She-Hulk is a series that both its defenders and enemies can describe with the same word: Weird. It has an identity crisis that can confuse those who are looking for something with a relatively serious tonality like Falcon and the Winter Soldier or Moon Knight,
but that we could not classify as experimental in the style of Wandavision. However, within this lack of focus.
I must admit that the end result is a fairly light series that although it takes this area of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to a strange point, it could never be classified as boring.
Perhaps the biggest victim of this is the character of the Hulk, who since his bitter beginnings in the 2008 film has not only gone through a recasting (remember that Edward Norton was originally in charge of interpreting him and not Mark Ruffalo, something that bothers me series acknowledges),
but also hasn't had a consistent story arc since Age of Ultron. Infinity War and Endgame gave him a rather secondary role,
and many times his purpose was too comedic and existed despite his more tragic origins, of course, defining whether this was positive or negative depended on the tastes of each fan.
In this case, they try to balance both extremes of the character, but far from making us feel empathy, it ends up feeling like a joke in bad taste,
an excuse to form a new female character that could work very well within this cinematographic universe, but at the same time that still has a long way to go.
She-Hulk is bad? Definitely not, the cgi leaves a bit to be desired and most of the scenes are directed horribly, but at the same time I feel it's important to give it a try without being too predisposed to loathe it.
The moments where the fourth wall is broken are enjoyed and the internal conflict that Jennifer wages is interesting, it is an intrinsically feminist story and giving it a correct angle could end up being very solid.