Main cast: Tatiana Maslany (Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk), Josh Segarra (Augustus Pugliese), Ginger Gonzaga (Nikki Ramos), Jon Bass (Todd), Griffin Matthews (Luke Jacobson), Steve Coulter (Holden Holliway), Mark Linn-Baker (Morris Walters), Tess Malis Kincaid (Elaine Walters), Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock/Daredevil), and Renée Elise Goldsberry (Mallory Book)
Director: Kat Coiro
Ribbit and Rip It is the second last episode of the first—and hopefully only—season of Jessica Gao’s self-fulfillment power trip of a show, and yes, there is no story arc, nothing aside from her OC stand-in bleating and whining about how her wine mom privileged life is somehow still lacking in some ways, so this makes her constantly draining all the energy from any room she is in by insisting that she has to be the center of attention.
On the bright side, Charlie Cox’s much-publicized hype prior to this show—yes, yes, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is created, written, and made by POWERFUL women of color, but we all know you all just want to see the mighty Cox swinging in front of your face, so we’ll show him a lot, make him talk a lot about this show, and let everyone imagine that he’s in a lot of the show and not just, oh, the last two episodes—well, he has arrived.
Only to predictably gets swallowed up by the gaping maw of personality vacuum of that character that Jessica Gao wishes desperately that she is. Yes, yes, Matt Murdock is a ho, but it’s pretty awkward for that character to show up here just to be the newest meat dildo in that OC stand-in’s perpetual prowl for peen.
Anyway, in this episode the Green-Hag defends some loser whose frog costume malfunctioned, and… oh who cares, the plot is just minute filler for the main character to bleat about how men suck unless said men are hot enough to catch her fancy and are amenable enough to shag her when she crooks her finger at them. Every man here is a joke or a villain, which says a lot about the show being the personal springboard for the collective anger of the women behind this show toward men that swiped left or something.
Well, all men here except for Matt Murdock because he has plot armor on the account of his own show coming up next. Hopefully, it won’t be a show that sees him nodding stupidly at some spunky, sassy, lesbian, and fat secretary of color that keeps berating him about what a worthless toxic white male that he is.
On the bright side, Tatiana Maslany and Mr Cox show some nice chemistry in their scenes here. That’s probably because the women writing this episode took time out from their social media addiction to actually write out their personal fantasies with the poor fellow, exerting far more effort into these scenes than they had had for the rest of the show.
Toward the end, there’s an explosion and some villains—men, of course—running around, but who cares, this show is this close to being done and so am I.
