She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Season Review

The first season of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has ended and here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of that very first season of the Savage She-Hulk!

She-Hulk origins deviated from the comics and that’s OK

The Marvel Cinematic Universe called and She-Hulk answered. The show was off to a great start with the origin story—Bruce in the car, the Cheetos with the chopsticks.

And then the spaceship that drove them off the road and into a ditch. Bruce’s blood going into Jenn’s bloodstream which gives She-Hulk her powers was very well done.

Sure, it deviated from the comics. But not by much. In the comics, Bruce acts like a donor for Jennifer who has been in an accident, because they are in the middle of nowhere and there is no one else with the same blood type.

The training episodes were fun and of course, the fight we all waited for: Hulk vs She-Hulk. Noone won physically but I still feel that Jennifer won on a socially intellectual level.

Not to say that Bruce is socially inept but just saying that Jennifer reads people better than he does. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Jennifer is a lawyer and has to read people for a living.

Supporting cast and its role in the series

I really did like the supporting cast. We got Nikkie, who plays the spirited bestie of Jennifer. She is also a paralegal, someone who supports a lawyer and has a lot of knowledge of the law.

We have Pugh, a lawyer who works at the same firm as Jennifer and is good friends with everyone at the office. You know, that guy…

Mallory, who ends up defending Jennifer against Titania’s She-Hulk trademark claims. And Holden Holliway, who hires Jenn after the Titania debacle in the first episode.

The supporting cast is completed of Jennifer’s family, her mother Elaine, and her father Morris.

All in all, it is a very good support cast and they all play the roles very well. The cast has gelled very well, there is a lot of good chemistry between the actors and the actors are all very seasoned TV actors.

Do new need a “something wrong” about this show

The issue I have is that the supporting characters are too flat. We never know what they do outside of work. Or other things that make them at least two-dimensional. I know three-dimensional is far-fetched but still, two is possible right?

She-Hulk and Nikkie who shows her there is more to life than the Law

So what’s wrong with the TV show with all the good points that I just mentioned? Well, how much time do you have? I am kidding of course. I really did love the show.\

Dude, where is my seasonal arc?

But in between all the points I mentioned, I found the lack of a seasonal story arc annoying. At times the show felt like it was going nowhere.

We are being misdirected by the writers who made us think that Titania was going to be the season villain. Which was brilliant, I have to admit.

But there were barely any hints about who was pulling the strings or anything. And thus when it was revealed that it was Todd Phelps who was behind She-Hulk’s misery, I was like no…You can’t just drop a bombshell like that because Todd Phelps has a few very short scenes.

Was that the only build-up of a nemesis that we got? A dating episode, a courtroom appearance, and a restaurant scene? That’s it? The main arc just fell short.

Yes, I understand that Todd Phelps was the embodiment of everything “fail” in this current society such as misogyny and cancel culture. But it could have been so much more.

He could have been so much more. He could have been brilliant but was so average even his body temperature was 37.5 degrees Celsius. I mean I never get the impression that Todd Phelps is this kind of a character.

All I get is that he’s a sleazebucket. And having him make a website forum like Intelligencia over a rejection just seems petty to be honest. So as far as supervillains go, he’s the worst one.

I had hopes for Titania, but with Titania, I got the feeling that they were just trying to establish the character a little bit and perhaps in other TV shows or maybe in She-Hulk season 2 she will be fleshed out.

I did enjoy the downfall of this otherwise great character. At least, I like her in the comics a bit more.

And I like Jameela Jamil. I have liked Jameela since The Good Place and if you haven’t watched that, you totally should. It’s one of the best comedies of the past decade.

In She-Hulk, Titania was a social media influencer who has above-human-average strength and took on She-Hulk to make herself look better for her followers.

Titania and her many humiliations after losing to She-Hulk

She manipulated events and made sure there was some video of them available for her social media platforms. Instead, she lost her followers, her dignity, and her teeth.

Before the She-Hulk events, Titania was the vain kind of person who would high-five herself in public. She has now fallen from grace and will surely be driven to a darker side of life.

At some point, I even wondered if Emil Blonsky a.k.a. The Abomination was going to be the big bad. And all signs pointed to yes when we saw him cage fight in the footage that went viral.

But when Jennifer got him off on parole and with an ankle bracelet that prevented him from becoming Abomination, I thought the character could redeem himself.

And I was right, I thought, after watching the episodes he featured in and especially the ones with the meditational retreat.

However, in the final episode, Emil lapsed on screen by turning into the Abomination and thereby violating his parole. So can he be trusted? Has he redeemed himself?

I think not. He is back to being a villain and if it wasn’t for Wong in the final scene of the show, he would’ve been jailed for the next 10 years in that high-security facility.

She-Hulk: Cameo at Law

What I loved about She-Hulk was the number of cameos the show had over nine episodes. All of them, the A-listers, the B-listers, and the C-listers. The C-listers are the ones you turn to when everyone else is engaged otherwise.

We didn’t just have the A-listers like the Hulk and Abomination, the B-listers like Daredevil and Titania. And C-listers like The Porcupine, The Leap Frog, Man-Bull, El Aguila, Mr. Immortal, the vampire Saracen, and we even saw some incarnations of the Wrecking Crew.

Although I have to say that the Wrecking Crew are incredibly badass in the comic and aren’t just foes you can shove aside. They use Asgardian weapons as well as they did in the She-Hulk episode but also have the constitutional prowess to be able to wield the Asgardian weapons making them incredibly powerful and super dangerous.

The C-listers actually made the show more connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With the C-listers, you also shine a light on the characters that were just created for filler comics, which happened frequently in the early days of comics.

An enemy for this month here, a friend for this week there and you build up an entire universe with the ones that do catch on.

Unfortunately, characters like Saracen and El Aguila were completely forgotten despite adding a good substantial story to the Marvel Universe in both the comics and the movies and perhaps even TV shows.

Granted their comic book counterparts don’t have enough background created for an entire show but using what you have and perhaps adding a thing or two in a Marvel TV show like the She-Hulk and you got yourself a great support character, even if it is just for a couple of episodes.

I have to say that I found it brilliant to add the aforementioned C-listers by the She-Hulk writing staff.

The issue with humor in the MCU

Now, I have written about this before in my Thor: Love and Thunder review and in the season finale review of She-Hulk and in the Episode 8 review as well. But the amount of humor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is becoming excessive.

For instance, I enjoyed the Netflix Daredevil because he was a gritty dark character. I explained in one of my She-Hulk Episode reviews how Daredevil was a comedic character in his early days. And I enjoyed that.

I know Daredevil was supposed to be a backup character in case Spider-man’s issue hit a delay but we already have so many funny characters.

Characters like She-Hulk, Thor, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and to a certain extent Tony Stark. Why do we need even more? We need some moderate funny / quasi-serious and some dark and gritty characters to balance the Marvel Universe before it becomes the Marvel Comedic Universe instead of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As much as I enjoy the humor.

For the second season, if there is one, then I would love to see more cameos of C-listers. Stiltman for instance would be an amazing cameo to see in She-Hulk. Since he stole armor technology from Stark Industries there could be a nice tie-in with the upcoming Armor Wars TV show.

Who else can I think of ? The Kangaroo, another silly C-lister that should deserve his spotlights for an episode.

What did you make of this first season of She-Hulk? Did you like it? Hate it? Or love it? Let me know by dropping a line!

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Season Episodes Reviews and Breakdowns

This is the full collection of individual review articles breaking down each moment from each episode of the show on DisneyPlus.

If you think you might have missed a detail or a story element, go back and read the individual episode reviews and breakdowns VULKK.com did.

Each episode of the show offered a unique story and experience and despite their short(er) duration, there was a lot to see, talk and break down. From cool cameos to secret plot lines, you may start to think differently about some of the scenes in the episodes after you have read the breakdowns we did.

Please note that the episode reviews contain heavy spoilers. I recommend you read them after you have watched each episode first.