She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Episode 9 is now streaming on Disney+. She-Hulk has had its ups and downs but this finale has solidified it as great.
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Episode 9 Review
Warning: There are spoilers ahead for the She-Hulk Season One finale.
Before talking about She-Hulk: Attorney At Law as a whole, we need to talk about the absolutely insane final episode. She-Hulk breaks the 4th wall, not just in the show, but Disney+! This is still hard to wrap our heads around but yeah, She-Hulk breaks the fourth wall, entering the “real world”? Not really sure how the logistics work but it was such a smart resolution to the series, that only this show could pull off.
She-Hulk has been unique in the sense that each episode has very slowly built up to a resolution, while primarily focusing on Jennifer Walters as a character. This was definitely an issue at times because some side stories through the season weren’t really intriguing, but at the end of the day, it works very well.
In the finale when Jen is talking to K.E.V.I.N she asks why her personal and character driven show is being bombarded by a big action scene with a bunch of cameos, and that is a valid criticism. She resolves the entire season by just deleting them. This is one of the biggest twists in Marvel history, just because we didn’t even think it was a possibility.
In terms of resolutions this was also better than all of the other MCU Disney+ shows. Daredevil shows up at the end, and this felt normal because he was in the last episode. Jen mentions him a few times throughout the episode so he didn’t feel out of place at all.
On the other hand, Hulk introducing his son Skaar was one of the most out of place things we have seen in a while. It felt forced and just plain weird, but it makes sense because the Hulks must be a big part of a future project.
The most likely outcome is their partaking in Captain America: New World Order as we know a Hulk villain, The Leader, is the main villain but, they also mentioned a Hulk movie while She-Hulk was talking to K.E.V.I.N so that could be a possibility as well.
Disappointingly Good
Now to the season as a whole. It is good, but sadly nothing more. Just like a lot of the MCU shows the fear that the finale wouldn’t deliver was there, but that didn’t end up being the issue. The key issue was the writing throughout the show.
Every episode had a Jen story and side story, not to say the side stories weren’t important, because they were. They helped lead into key details about the resolution and they way they sprinkled it in was great, but that doesn’t mean the stories themselves were that great.
There are some exceptions such as episode 4’s magician subplot and Pug finding the tailor, but those are just a handful side stories, from nine entire episodes. The mediocre side stories do make sense when looking at the format of the show, nine 20-30 minute episodes doesn’t allow for much of both character and overall story building.
But again the way they decided to resolve everything saved a lot of these issues because it fit perfectly into what they built.
Character Work
Aside from some story issues, the character work in She-Hulk is actually great. Episode 1 does a great job at introducing us to this character and making the origin interesting. The dynamic between She-Hulk and Hulk was the perfect introduction to She-Hulk and through all of the season we learned to care for this pretty torn apart character.
The retreat episode especially was one where we got deep into the internal struggle of She-Hulk vs Jennifer Walters and the monologue by Tatiana Maslany about how she doesn’t know if people want her, or her alter ego, and she knows a lot of people prefer her alter ego, but she doesn’t even like being her, it is sad, but creates a character we all want to be invested in.
At the end of the day She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is separated from the rest of the MCU shows because of the finale. It’s creative, interesting, and unique — doing something we have never seen from the MCU before.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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About She-Hulk
In Marvel Studios’ “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany)—an attorney specializing in superhuman-oriented legal cases—must navigate the complicated life of a single, 30-something who also happens to be a green 6-foot-7-inch superpowered hulk.
The nine-episode comedy series welcomes a host of MCU vets, including Mark Ruffalo as Smart Hulk, Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky/the Abomination, and Benedict Wong as Wong, as well as Jameela Jamil, Josh Segarra, Ginger Gonzaga, Jon Bass and Renée Elise Goldsberry.
The series is directed by Kat Coiro (Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9) and Anu Valia (Episodes 5, 6, 7) with Jessica Gao as head writer. Executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Kat Coiro and Jessica Gao.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law streams exclusively on Disney+.
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