Main cast: Tatiana Maslany (Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk), Jameela Jamil (Titania), Ginger Gonzaga (Nikki Ramos), Patti Harrison (Lulu), and Renée Elise Goldsberry (Mallory Book)
Director: Anu Valia
Oh, how lovely, as of all the Disney+ MCU shows in ages to have more than six episodes, the show just has to be She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which is six episodes deep but still have no proper direction, focus, or compelling elements.
Maybe the whole end game is for Jessica Gao is live out her vicarious fantasies through getting her OC stand-in to bang Charlie Cox. He’s going to show up, right? He got far more spotlight in the pre-show hype than Tatiana Maslany herself, no doubt because the marketing people took one look at the show and realized that the only way they could get people in tune in was to lead people to believe that Daredevil is going to be a considerable part of this show.
No, he’s still not on so far. In fact, this episode is full of C-tier guests, all of them showing up to drive home how everyone on this show is paid to just waste the audience’s time.
Anyway, Just Jen enters the territory of every wine mom’s favorite subreddit “Am I the Asshole?” with the ever popular bridezilla trope. While nearly every post on that subreddit is clearly an exercise in not-so-creative writing by people that want to laugh at how the people that live in that place consider every minor offense an excuse to go immediate no contact, screenwriter Kara Brown takes the whole thing very seriously.
Hence, Jen attends a friend’s wedding while having to deal with a client, Mr Immortal, that escapes paying his wives alimony by just killing himself each time he wants out. Yes, this episode is all about how awful men are—for existing, for not sleeping with the women behind this show when these women get horny, for sleeping with and settling down with other women instead, et cetera.
Seriously, this show just screams “I am written by narcissists that project every tiny iota of their first world entitlement issues as some kind of very important global problem that can only be resolved when every single petulant demand of theirs is met promptly and unquestioningly!” more and more with every episode.
Is this show a place for Kevin Feige to quarantine all the whiny, persistent diversity hire women brought in by Disney? “There, there, here’s the show gig I promised you, now be a good girl and run along now!”
It’s not like the show is all about sisterhood either, or else Jessica Gao’s OC and Titania won’t escalate their mean girl rivalry to increasingly childish levels here.
Worst of all, this episode has other characters at first telling that OC that not everything is about her, only to later validate the OC by showing that yes, everything is about her. She and Titania do a lot of things that would ruin the poor woman’s wedding, but in the end, it’s okay because the woman adores She-Hulk so yay.
Seriously, this episode couldn’t be any clearer as the product made by and for narcissists wanting validation that everything in existence is about them, only them, and all that disagree are faulty constructs that are to be blamed for these narcissists’ unhappiness.
On the bright side, Trevor Salter is cute. Too bad the weird crummy lighting that plagues this show makes him look like he has weird alien jaundice half the time.
